Ok so cool it is Father's Day 2013 June the 16th and at Harbor Network we have
been looking up the history of old airplanes and airship's and found out with a little more study that the B-23 dragon's first
flight was on July 27th 1939 about the time when British and Polish intelligence sent electronic calculating devices out of
Poland to various Allied intelligence section's the devices called bombs were a way they could break the enigma codex machines
code and read inter-communication reports sent through the German military and State Department sections. Also Japanese military
and
govermental sections relied on this enigma codex device which was wired into the telephone system! Poland was invaded
by the German Army in September 1939!
We found out that there were 38 B-23's built
and built by the Douglas company and 18 of which were made into transports and designated the UC-67 which several of them made
it through the the war years and were used as executive transport's by such men as Howard Hugh's! We also looked up the
peashooter fighter plane which was the first all metal aircraft adopted by the Army Air Corps in 1931. The airframe built
by the Boeing company and the engines and instrament's supplied by the Army?Air Corps Tinker thought its number was the P-22
but it wasn't it was the P-26 Peashooter and was the first airplane to enter combat with another airplane made out of metal
! This happened in China in 1937! True story!