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The U.S. Navy has 250 aircraft cooperating with 46 ships in blockading Cuba; the attack aircraft carriers USS Enterprise (CVA(N)-65) and USS Independence (CVA-62) and the antisubmarine carriers USS Essex (CVS-9) and USS Randolph (CVS-15) are among the ships taking part. The United States has a combined 156 aircraft in Florida poised to strike ...
The Aircraft Bluebook Price Digest is a quarterly print publication by Informa (also available on CD-ROM) that was established in the 1950s. It identifies and prices more than 3,000 used general aviation aircraft and helicopter make and model-years available in the United States. Prices reflect historical data and cannot, therefore, take into ...
Cargo dropped even faster, because the US military took delivery of C-141 Starlifters from 1965 and C-5A Galaxies from 1970, which it put to work hauling military cargo. [171] [172] Military charter cargo ton-miles (one ton of freight transported one mile) in 1975 were down to just 5% of the 1967 peak. [168
The national average price for a gallon of gasoline is a little more than $4.95, according to AAA. ... GOBankingRates mapped out a chronology of average gas prices for more than 90 years dating ...
The situation became critical when in March 1962 USOA failed an inspection that eliminated its ability to carry military charters. [31] This was in the wake of the 1961 Imperial Airlines Flight 201/8 crash that killed 74 soldiers, the accident report of which was damning of that supplemental carrier's competency, [ 36 ] causing the military to ...
DC-4 at Burbank 1969. Johnson Flying Service (JFS) was an American certificated supplemental air carrier (known earlier as an irregular air carrier or nonscheduled carrier), a type of airline defined and regulated after World War II by the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), a now defunct federal agency which tightly regulated almost all commercial air transportation in the United States during the ...
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Pages in category "1962 in military history" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.