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AirLift Logistics, LLC While AirLift Logistics is a non-asset based company, we have over 18 years of combined aerial crane, general construction, firefighting, and aircraft chartering experience. AirLift Logistics, LLC was founded to offer both the end-user and equipment operator a better way to more efficiently come together. Whatever your need and whenever you need it - AirLift Logistics can better serve you by eliminating the time it takes to locate the right equipment at the right price. www.airliftlog.com   (101 words)

Airlift Related stories: Airlift, Army Logistics, Projection, Contract Awards, U.S. Cutaway Related stories: Air Forces, Airlift, Army Logistics, Projection, Budgets, Lobbying, Top Stories, U.S. C-130J Hercules Related stories: Airlift, Chemical, Contract Awards, Detection, Medical, U.S. -TECH, a joint venture and small business qualifier in Seattle, WA, is being awarded a not-to-exceed $20 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract to measure the effectiveness of the Navy's environmental remediation and controls in the American Northwest. www.defenseindustrydaily.com /airlift   (2137 words)

Air Force Reserve Command Public Access Web Page Full- and part-time reservists provide 45 percent of the Air Force’s strategic airlift crews and have moved people, supplies and helicopters to the region to support international crisis-response teams. He is deployed from Air Force Reserve Command’s 908th Airlift Wing, Maxwell, Ala. Air Force Reserve Command Public Access Web Page www.afrc.af.mil   (2137 words)

Airlift - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This can be as ordinary as transporting televisions from one airport to another, or as extraordinary as the Berlin Airlift. A suction device for work underwater: see Airlift (dredging device). In logistics and military terminology, the act of transporting people or cargo from point to point using aircraft. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Airlift   (123 words)

Airlift - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This can be as ordinary as transporting televisions from one airport to another, or as extraordinary as the Berlin Airlift. A suction device for work underwater: see Airlift (dredging device). In logistics and military terminology, the act of transporting people or cargo from point to point using aircraft. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Airlift   (123 words)

Airmen make drops in Thailand As the C-130 Hercules from the 36th Airlift Squadron at Yokota Air Base, Japan, rumbled overhead at 600 feet, the cargo was released and floated under a full canopy into a dormant rice paddy. The logistics of navigating around rural Thailand and trying to find a specified point on the planet is sometimes a challenge. Cobra Gold is an exercise designed to improve U.S., Thai, Singaporean, Mongolian and Filipino combined readiness and interoperability, enhance security relationships and demonstrate U.S. resolve in the region. www.af.mil /news/story_print.asp?storyID=123007789   (123 words)

Air Force Journal of Logistics One of seven battlelabs Air Force-wide, this new organization is tasked to explore innovative air mobility operations, command and control, logistics, and sensor fusion concepts for airlift, aerial refueling, aeromedical evacuation, and mobility support, and to rapidly measure their potential for advancing the global reach core competency. It may be too dangerous for tactical airlift to transport you, so you may have to hire an airplane and its crew, with cash. Purchasing locally saves space and weight on airlift, and it is airlift that wins wars in an expeditionary air force. www.aflma.hq.af.mil /lgj/Afjlhome.html   (7669 words)

Little Rock Air Force Base: 463d Airlift Group The 463rd Airlift Group falls under the command of 21st Air Force (Air Mobility Command), located at McGuire Air Force Base, N.J. The group is composed of a command staff element and five reporting squadrons - 50th Airlift Sqaudron, 61st Airlift Squadron, 463rd Airlift Control Squadron, 463rd Logistics Support Squadron and 463rd Operations Support Squadron. On March 31, 1997, the 463rd Airlift Wing was redesignated as the 463rd Airlift Group. Currently, the 50th Airlift Squadron operates the C-130H3 and the 61st Airlift Squadron operates the C-130E model. www.littlerock.af.mil /tenants/463ag/ssi_463aghome.shtm   (7669 words)

LIST OF CLASSES - September 8, 2004 - HTML Edition Air Force Logistics Command, Hill Air Force Base, Telephone Directory) General Catalog, MAC NCO (Military Airlift Command Noncommissioned Officer) Academy) Air Force Geophysics Laboratory: Technical Reports, AFGL-TR (series) www.du.edu /bdld/loc118.htm   (7669 words)

AIR FORCE LOGISTICS COMMAND - Storming Media Click on the titles below to find US government reports identified by the key word or phrase AIR FORCE LOGISTICS COMMAND. Command and Control of Theater Airlift - 1997 Strategic Performance Measurement in an Air Force Logistics Organization - DEC 1997 www.stormingmedia.us /keywords/air_force_logistics_command.html   (7669 words)

Field Operating Agencies Redesignated Air Force Logistics Management Agency on July 1, 1992 and concurrently, its status changed from a subordinate unit of AFLC to a field operating agency of the USAF. Reassigned to Air Force Logistics Command on December 24, 1987. Effective April 1, 1991, status changed from a subordinate organization of Military Airlift Command to a field operating agency of the USAF. www.au.af.mil /au/afhra/wwwroot/rso/foa.html   (7669 words)

Lockheed C-5 Galaxy The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is a heavy logistics military transport aircraft designed to provide world-wide massive strategic airlift. Galaxies comprised only 12 percent of the combined airlift fleet, yet they carried 44 percent of all airlift cargo and flew 23 percent of all strategic airlift missions. The Galaxy's massive cargo compartment, with its upward-hinged visor in the nose and outward-opening "clamshell" doors in the rear, accommodates drive-through loading/unloading of wheeled or tracked vehicles using full-width ramps at each end. www.theaviationzone.com /factsheets/c5.asp   (7669 words)

COLbioJun04.doc He has served in various assignments over the course of his career, including Tactics Officer, Group Training Officer, Chief of Command Post, 144th Tactical Airlift Squadron Director of Operations, Chief of Standardization/Evaluation, 144th Airlift Squadron Unit Commander and 176th Logistics Group Commander. January 1997 — February 1999, Commander, 144th Airlift Squadron, Kulis ANG Base, Alaska 7. At the end of his active duty service commitment in August 1980, he joined the 144th Tactical Airlift Squadron, Alaska Air National Guard, where he was operationally trained on the C-130E aircraft. www.akang.ang.af.mil /bios/COLbioJun04.doc   (7669 words)

The Hindu News Update Service He said the TNI will send another 419 soldiers from different units to airlift logistics to tsunami-hit areas in Aceh. (UNI):The Indonesian military (TNI) has sent additional military personnel to Meulaboh, Aceh, to airlift logistics for victims of Sunday's earthquake and its subsequent tsunami as well as to repair communications networks. Spokesman for the TNI Headquarters Col A Yanin said yesterday the soldiers airlifted the humanitarian aid for the tsunami victims using a helicopter. www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/holnus/003200412301050.htm   (7669 words)

Rano E. Lueker, Brigadier General, United States Air Force From May 1973 to January 1974, General Lueker was assistant deputy commander for operations with the 63rd Military Airlift Wing at Norton Air Force Base, California, with subsequent duty as deputy commander and then acting commander of the base. General Lueker reported to Wright-Patterson in August 1974 as director of aeronautical logistics for Headquarters Air Force Logistics Command, with duty at Aeronautical Systems Division. Brigadier General Rano E. Lueker was vice commander, Headquarters Twenty-first Air Force, Military Airlift Command, McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey. www.arlingtoncemetery.net /relueker.htm   (702 words)

wpalmby.htm Mobility operations/logistics (particularly with regards to air mobility, airlift and air refueling), training, operational leadership, history and theory of war, and the Civil Reserve Air Fleet Staff experience includes: mobility and logistics operations and planning at the Joint Staff, CJCS J-4; plans and doctrine at HQ Air Mobility Command; and senior officer personnel experience at HQ Air Mobility Command. Enhancement of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet: An Alternative for Bridging the Airlift Gap, Air University Press (June 1995) www.brook.edu /scholars/fellows/wpalmby.htm   (702 words)

Command :: Colonel Linda K. McTague In 1994, she became the Commander, 113th Logistics Squadron, and subsequently served as the full-time 113th Logistics Group Commander while continuing to fly as an attached C-22 instructor pilot in the 201st Airlift Squadron. Upon graduation from pilot training, she was assigned to Detachment 2, 1400th Military Airlift Squadron, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, as a CT-39 pilot. After two years she moved to Detachment 1 of the 94th ATS to become a pilot for the Wings of Blue Air Force Parachute Team and served as the Operations Officer and flight examiner in the UV-18 aircraft. www.dcandr.ang.af.mil /command/mctague_bio.htm   (477 words)

Air Force Link - MAJOR GENERAL DONALD W. GRAHAM Major General Donald William Graham is the assistant deputy chief of staff for systems and logistics, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. He is responsible for all Air Force logistics support, which includes procurement policy, maintenance engineering, transportation, supply and services, and foreign military assistance and sales. In July 1962 he was assigned as deputy chief of staff for materiel, Military Air Transport Service (now Military Airlift Command), Scott Air Force Base, Ill. In addition to his normal duties, he was responsible for the procurement of all long-range airlift. In July 1960 General Graham was selected to be the initial commander of the Central Contract Management Region, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, which was under the Air Materiel Command and provided field management for U.S. Air Force contracts and other agency-assigned contracts within the central third of the United States. www.af.mil /bios/bio.asp?bioID=5597   (477 words)

T-43 The Boeing logistics support system has enabled a 96.7 percent launch reliability rate over that period for the T-43 Navigator Training, USAF Academy Airmanship and U. Southern Command special airlift programs. Boeing has provided logistics support for the aircraft over the entire 24-year life span of the Air Force program. Boeing employs field service representatives to meet this logistics support challenge. www.boeing.com /defense-space/military/t43   (477 words)

ReliefWeb » Document Preview » NATO starts airlifting African Union troops to Darfur NATO has launched its airlift operations in support of the the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS), with the first movement of Nigerian troops on 1 July. NATO will help to train AU personnel in key headquarters functions such as command and contol, logistics and planning. Eight NATO personnel have been deployed to help coordinate NATO's airlift support -- seven to Addis Ababa and one to Nigeria, who will later move to other locations based on the airlift schedule. www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EVOD-6EBHGT?OpenDocument&rc=1&emid=ACOS-635PJQ   (297 words)

A Revolution in Air Transport Gen Howell M. Estes, Jr., the MAC commander at the time that the C- 141 entered the Air Force inventory, perhaps understood better than most people the revolution in airlift that came with the acquisition of the C-141. See Robert C. Owen, "The National Military Airlift Hearings of 1960: Doctrinal Victory or Successful Turf Battle?" (Unpublished study, Duke University, April 1990). House, Hearings before Special Subcommittee on National Military Airlift, 4075-78. www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/apj/laun.html   (7247 words)

C-5 GALAXY Heavy Logistics Turbofan Transport - aeroengineer.net U.S. Air Force 0-5 Galaxy produced by Lockheed-Georgia Company carried 10,800 tons of supplies in 145 missions an average one way distance of 6,450 miles during 1973 Israeli airlift. It regularly covers Military Airlift Command Atlantic and Pacific routes, including nonstop flights from Dover AFB, Del., to the Philippines using of light refueling. C-5 GALAXY Heavy Logistics Turbofan Transport - aeroengineer.net www.aeroengineer.net /history/lockheed/lockheed4.html   (7247 words)

FS2004 Military Jets Page 70 This is a heavy logistics military transport aircraft designed to provide world-wide massive strategic airlift. This enormous aircraft, first known as the CX-HLS (Cargo Experimental-Heavy Logistics System) transport, was required to carry a payload of 125,000 pounds (56,700kg) over a distance of 8,000 miles (12,875km), or twice that load over a shorter distance. The CONUS based fleet can provide delivery of palletized, oversized and outsized cargo, as well as passengers or combat-ready troops, anywhere in the world on short notice. www.simviation.com /fs2004military70.htm   (414 words)

PakDef Forums - US clears sale of six C130 cargo planes to Pakistan Pakistan requested the six used cargo aircraft, as well as several engine and aircraft upgrades, spare parts and personnel training, to remedy a current and long-term airlift shortfall, and to better support the U.S. war in neighboring Afghanistan, the agency said. These aircraft will be used for the purpose of providing airlift support." The Government of Pakistan, it said, had requested six used C-130E aircraft with engines, spare parts, training personnel, equipment, logistics support and assistance in upgradation of engines. www.pakdef.info /forum/showthread.php?t=2070   (2546 words)

C-5 GALAXY Heavy Logistics Turbofan Transport - aeroengineer.net U.S. Air Force 0-5 Galaxy produced by Lockheed-Georgia Company carried 10,800 tons of supplies in 145 missions an average one way distance of 6,450 miles during 1973 Israeli airlift. It regularly covers Military Airlift Command Atlantic and Pacific routes, including nonstop flights from Dover AFB, Del., to the Philippines using of light refueling. C-5 GALAXY Heavy Logistics Turbofan Transport - aeroengineer.net www.aeroengineer.net /history/lockheed/lockheed4.html   (117 words)

Aircraft Detail The "Provider" was a short-range assault transport used to airlift troops and cargo onto short runways and unprepared airstrips. Warner Robins Air Logistics Center provided worldwide logistics support and management of all USAF C-123s during their service life. The C-123 on display entered service in February 1956, it served at various units all over the world and most notable it arrived in Vietnam in August 1966 serving with several units and many locations until its return to the United States in July 1970. www.museumofaviation.org /aircraftCollection/cargo/13-uc-123k.htm   (225 words)

The Cargo Lettter 388 This trend will be driven by 3 factors: the increased demand for lead logistics providers, the emergence of new technology, and an increase in cash-rich buyers seeking logistics targets. Officials at the U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command, which oversees airlift services for the Dept. of Defense, said that $1.06Bn was awarded to civilian airlines between Oct. 1 and March 3. The 3 marker system technologies are: (1) Applied DNA Sciences' embedded-DNA; (2) ultraviolet fluorescent marks; and (3) nanobarcodes. www.cargolaw.com /z.tcl388.html   (8153 words)

C-20 Gulfstream III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The C-20G is the Gulfstream IV used for long range, medium airlift logistics support for Fleet Battle Groups. The C-20D Gulfstream III used for world-wide airlift of senior leadership and dignitaries. The C-20 Gulfstream is the military designation of the commercial Gulfstream bizjets used by the US military forces. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/C-20_Gulfstream_III   (8153 words)

Berlin airlift Berlin Airlift: logistics, humanitarian aid, and strategic success: the Berlin Airlift is remembered as a symbol of American resolve in the early years of the Cold War, but it also demonstrated the power of logistics in attaining a strategic objective.(Berlin Blockade and Airlift, 1948-1949) During the around-the-clock airlift some 277,000 flights were made, many at 3-min intervals. It was initiated in response to a land and water blockade of the city that had been instituted by the Soviet Union in the hope that the Allies would be forced to abandon West Berlin. www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0807200.html   (321 words)

C-20 Gulfstream III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The C-20G is the Gulfstream IV used for long range, medium airlift logistics support for Fleet Battle Groups. The C-20D Gulfstream III used for world-wide airlift of senior leadership and dignitaries. The C-20D Gulfstream III is an all-weather, long-range, high speed aircraft powered by two Rolls-Royce Spey turbofan engines with thrust reversers. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/C-20_Gulfstream_III   (321 words)

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