"Ray" wrote in message
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In the past ,our goverment paid to support craft aircraft {The project to
have airlines support airlift }Is this system still in effect.what could
you
do to a 747 to make it meet the system. Just wondering. Ray



CRAF (Civil Reserve Air Fleet), not "craft", which is something the wife
does with her school kiddies. :-) Yep, it is still in effect--do a Google
search on the term and you'll find a fair amount of info on the web. I don't
think you need to "do" anything, per se, to 747's to make them capable of
inclusion in the CRAF fleet--CRAF has need for both freight and passenger
haulers (IIRC the majority of CRAF needs during ODS were for the latter
category). ISTR when the original CRAF program began, it required
strengthened floor assemblies, etc., to ensure capability of handling
cargo/palletized loads, but I don't think that is any longer the case, given
the availability of dedicated freighter and combi-type aircraft in the civil
fleet.

Brooks