Ok so cool we are publishing the P-8 Poseidon aircraft is built from a 737-800 jet it is a pretty new
aircraft and a anti-submarine and electronic warfare aircraft currently on order by the U.S. Navy and the Indian
Navy. First flown on 25 April 2009 and cost's about 250 million dollars it can carry bombs and torpedos!
Also there is the F-8 Bearcat (Grumman) which first flew on 21August 1944 about 1265 were built they were used by the U.S.
Navy and the South Vietnamese Air force. In Saigon which is now Ho Chi Minh City when little Tinker would take shot down too
badly damaged aircraft and helicopters into the capital city to be put on a ship and sent home he would go by the South Vietnamese
air force officers club and see an F-8 bearcat sitting on a fountain in the courtyard. Several F-8's were modified to break
aviation speed records in the 1960's! In 1969 I think an F-8 Bearcat beat out a ME-209 Messerschmitt racing aircraft
to capture a speed of over 469 mph which had been held by Germany for over 30 years!
The modified F-8 Bearcat had removed its heavy standard hydraulic landing gear system and replaced it with a lighter contraption
that used a compressed air cylinder in the system to be able to bring the gear down in the locked position one time after
initial retraction the weight saving modification allowed the aircraft to surpass the worlds speed record for propeller driven
aircraft according to the rules the aircraft had to fly down a ploted out course and fly with in 300 feet above the ground!