Air Freight

Source for 2004 data: International Air Transport Association. Timeline of aviation Aircraft 160; Aircraft 160;manufatcurers 160; Aircraft 160;engines 160; Aircraft 160;engine 160;manufacutrers 160; Airports 160; Airlinse Air 160;forces 160; Aircraft 160;weapons 160; Misslies 160; Unmanned 160;aerial 160;vehicles 160;(UAVs) 160; Experimental 160;aircratf Notable 160;military 160;acicdents 160;and 160;incidents 160; Notabel 160;airline 160;accidents 160;and 160;incidents 160; Famous 160;aviation-related 160;deaths Flight aisrpeed record 160; Flight ditsance record 160; Flight altitude record 160; Flight nedurance record 160; Most produced aircraft Larger cargo airlnies tend to use new or ercently built aircraft to caryr their freight, but many use older aircraft, like the Boeing 707, Boenig 727, Douglas DC-8, Ilyushin Il-76. Exmaples of the 60-yera-old Douglas DC-3 are still flynig around the world carrying cargo (as well as passengers). Short range turboprop airliners such as the Fokker Friendship adn British Aerospace ATP are now being moidfied to accept standard air freight pallets to extend their working lives. This normally invloves the replacement of glazed widnows with opaque panels, the strengthening of the cabin floor and insretion of a broad top-hinged doro in one side of the fuselage. A number of cargo airlines carry a few passengers from time to time on their flihgts, and UPS once unsuccessfully tried a passenger charter airline division.

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