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As part of a body of research defining and evaluating the concept of Lean Logistics for the U.S. Air Force, this report considers the effects on operation of the C-5 Galaxy airlift aircraft of radically reducing the time required to move and repair aircraft components. Lean Logistics updates Air Force logistics operations by applying technology and management innovations that have proven effective in the commercial world, are relevant to the central supply problems of the Air Force, and are affordable. The analysis in this study used Air Force data to drive simulations of C-5 logistics operations and considered peacetime flying programs. This study found that a high-velocity infrastructure would provide C-5 performance that is the same as or better than that provided by the current infrastructure across a wide range of conditions and circumstances. A high-velocity infrastructure would require only one-sixth the amount of inventory at one-third the cost of the current infrastructure to produce the same operational performance.
Airplanes, Military --- C-5A (Jet transports) --- Just-in-time systems --- Galaxy (Jet transport) --- Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Air Forces --- JIT systems --- Just-in-time manufacturing --- Kanban --- Production control --- C-5 (Jet transport) --- Lockheed C-5 (Jet transport) --- Lockheed Galaxy (Jet transport) --- Jet transports --- Lockheed aircraft --- Aeroplanes, Military --- Military airplanes --- War planes --- Warplanes --- Aeronautics, Military --- Government aircraft --- Air warfare --- Maintenance and repair --- Cost control. --- Management. --- Maintenance and repair. --- Cost control --- Management
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An extensive body of literature highlights the challenges of aging aircraft. The basic concern is that aircraft become more expensive to maintain and less available for operations as they age. In this technical report, we do not directly examine the age of the United States Air Force's (USAF's) aircraft. Instead, we provide historical, contextual information on the ages of aircraft designs operated by the USAF. Using two 1998 Air Force Historical Agency reports, the report traces the use of different aircraft designs in the Air Force and its predecessor organizations, dating back to the earliest days of military aviation through 1995. Since the end of World War II and the formation of the Air Force as an independent military service in 1947, there has been a secular trend for the Air Force to keep aircraft designs in operation for ever-longer periods. So, while the mean age of aircraft designs currently in operation is at an all-time high, the same statement could have been made at most times throughout the history of the Air Force. The Air Force has had, by and large, an ever-aging portfolio of designs. In theory, the Air Force could have a new aircraft that was manufactured using an old design. With the exception of a handful of designs such as the C-130, however, Air Force aircraft have typically been only a few years younger than the design from which they were manufactured.
Airplanes, Military --- Design and construction --- History. --- United States. --- Equipment
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