Logistics Impact of Longer C-5 Missions.

Abstract

This study was undertaken to determine the impact and savings to accrue from maximum commitment to longer C-5 missions (perhaps 15-17 hours) using inflight refueling. This was accomplished by reviewing maintenance writeup data for shorter flights versus longer flights. Traditional logistics forecasting techniques are based on the number of flying hours. Therefore, a change in sortie length would not be expected to impact on logistics requirements unless the overall number of flying hours changed. An examination of this relationship was undertaken in this study. It was found that the occurrence of a sortie tends to result in a given number of maintenance writeups regardless of the length of the sortie. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA053381

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  • D. L. Casey

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Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Databases
  • Delphi Method
  • Explosive Devices
  • Flight
  • Fuel Systems
  • Information Science
  • Landing Gear
  • Logistics
  • Logistics Support
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Costs
  • Power Supplies
  • Refueling
  • Regression Analysis

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  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Systems Analysis and Design