1) ATQ Fall 2003 for pdf - Airlift/Tanker Association

FedEx Express
FedEx Express is the world’s largest express transportation company.
Leveraging its unmatched air route authorities and extensive
air/ground infrastructure, FedEx Express connects markets, within
just 1 to 2 business days, which comprise a large portion of the world’s
economic activity. The FedEx Express global transportation network
provides rapid, reliable, time-definite delivery of documents, packages
and freight shipments worldwide.
Today, FedEx Express and its 144,000 employees handle about 3.0
million packages and documents every night. FedEx aircraft, which
comprise the world’s largest all-cargo fleet, have a combined lift capacity
of more than 26.5 million pounds daily. In a 24-hour period,
FedEx planes travel nearly one-half million miles. FedEx couriers log
2.5 million miles a day, the equivalent of 100 trips around the earth.
FedEx is one of the world’s great success stories. In the past 30 years,
the company that revolutionized the delivery of packages and information
has grown into a diverse family of companies - a FedEx that’s
bigger, stronger, better than ever. Visit FedEx at www.fedex.com.
GE Aircraft Engines
GE Aircraft Engines and CFM International (a joint company of
General Electric Company, U.S.A. and Snecma, France) are the leading
suppliers of new engines for Air Mobility Command aircraft.
From the venerable TF39 for the C-5A/B, to the commercially popular
CF6-80C2 for the C-5 Modernization, GE continues its commitment
to a successful C-5 fleet. F103 (CF6) engines, which provided
outstanding reliability on KC-10 aircraft during Operation Desert
Storm, also powers Air Force One. Now entering its second decade of
operation, the CFM56 offers added range, increased fuel offload, and
low noise and emission levels to KC-135R refueling missions, while
enhancing its reputation as the most reliable engine in the USAF
inventory.
FlightSafety International
FlightSafety International is a simulator-based training company
whose contributions to aviation began with its founding in 1951.
The company’s special emphasis is on developing proficiency in
the safe and effective operation of complex, potentially hazardous
equipment. This normally means training pilots and maintenance
technicians for all types of aircraft. FlightSafety’s FAA-certified training
revolves around the use of advanced simulators that replicate
with certified accuracy the experience of flying. FlightSafety’s aircraft
simulators are designed and built by its Simulator Systems Division
near Tulsa. Company training encompasses all facets of aviation -
commercial, corporate, private and military. Included in its military
programs, FlightSafety operates and maintains the C-5, C-141 and
KC-135 Aircrew Training Systems (ATSs) and the Joint STARS Flight
Crew Training System (J-FTS) for the United States Air Force. The company
is developing and deploying the Joint Primary Aircrew Training
System (JPATS) ground based training system for the USAF and the
Navy. Since its founding, the company has always championed that:
“The best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained crewmember.”
Gulfstream
Gulfstream, a General Dynamics company, is the pre-eminent
manufacturer of business jets for corporations and governments
worldwide. Gulfstreams are flown by all U.S. military services and
several federal agencies as well as by 34 international governments.
The USAF’s Presidential Wing, the 89th AW at Andrews, is a flagship
operator of Gulfstream aircraft with its fleet of C-20 and C-37 aircraft.
The ultra-long range Gulfstream V introduced in 1997, is now in
service as the C-37A with the US Air Force, Army, Navy, and Coast
Guard. The latest derivative of the GV, the G550, has more recently
been selected as an airborne platform for signals intelligence, high altitude
research, maritime patrol, and airborne early warning missions.
These new programs build on Gulfstream’s many decades of military
and civil special missions experience.
FMC Airport Systems
FMC Airport Systems is a unit of FMC Technologies, Inc. FMC Airport
Systems designs, manufactures, and markets cargo loaders, deicers,
passenger boarding bridges, automated guided vehicle systems
and other aviation ground support systems and services worldwide. It
is composed of: Airport Systems, Military Programs, Jetway Systems,
Airport Services, Airline Equipment Europe and Automated Systems.
Having business centers worldwide has allowed FMC Airport Systems
to grow into what industry experts are calling “the leading supplier
of ground support equipment in the world.” FMC Airport Systems
is currently supplying the USAF with the MB-2 Aircraft Tow Tractor
and the Halvorsen Loader which is the USAF selection to fill the Next
Generation Small Loader requirement.
Hamilton Sundstrand
Hamilton Sundstrand has supplied equipment for airlift/tanker
aircraft since the C-133 more than 40 years ago. Today, we design
and produce systems for electric power generation; auxiliary, secondary
and emergency power; actuation; environmental control;
engine controls, and fluid pumping. As an example Hamilton Sundstrand
provides the C-17 Globemaster III’s electric power generation
system, emergency ram air turbine, main fuel and lube and scavenge
pumps, main engine fuel control, and the compressor for the onboard
inert gas generation system. Hamilton Sundstrand, headquartered
in Windsor Locks, CT, a division of United Technologies Corp,
is an international market leader in the design, manufacture and
sale of a variety of proprietary, technology-based components and
subsystems for aerospace and industrial markets, with 1999 sales of
over $3 billion.
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