Ok so cool we are publishing! The aircraft for these days a week before Christmas 2013
is the B-18 Douglas Bolo which first flew in April 1935 and was manufactured at a cost of $58,500 a unit! An early medium
bomber it was cost effective in relationship to the four engine prototype of the B-17 (Boeing)(known as the model 299 which
crashed on a test flight killing some of the crew but was actually favored in flight trials to the B-18),the B-17 which
cost $99,620 a unit! The Bolo sank several U-boats one the U-654 in the Caribbean on 22 Aug 1942 and the U-512 north of French
Guiana on 2nd October 1942 and also sank the U-520 east of Newfoundland! Many B-18's were destroyed in Pearl Harbor and
the Philippine's in the attack's of 1941 several were later picked up by commercial operators and were used as crop dusters
or transport aircraft!
Working on the Hexagon project the giant airplane spaceship
idea we are here looking into dealing with large propeller's and the ground equipment needed to manufacture and test the device's
on the ground a propeller apparatus works like an engineering lever that pushes the aircraft down the runway and into the
air to fire it's rocket motor that takes the aircraft into orbit is how it's suppose to work!
On the 19th we have on our airplane template the Fairchild PT-19 which first flew as a primary trainer on 15 May 1939 designed
by Armand Thiebolt it was a aircraft with out hardly any vices flying it except for at first having wing sections made out
of plywood which were later replaced with metal over 6000 were produced by several different aircraft companies for
the allies!
On the Dec 20th 2013 Winter solstice is the Douglas A-20 Havoc
a light attack and fighter bomber used in WW2 first flown on January 23rd 1939 they were produced under the company's designation
the DB-7 and called or were known as the Boston in the RAF! 7,478 were built but very few are left today and it is quite a
rare airplane even though they were made famous as they were used in the North African campaign by the allies and the USAAC
night fighter version was called the P-70!
December 20th-21st 2013 is Winter Solstice time
and the aircraft we have for that is the XB-21 or sometimes called to by the name the," Dragon", it first flew on 22
December 1936 and although several were ordered only one prototype was built at $122,000 dollars by North American! It developed
into the NA-40 or NA-40 project and became the B-25 Mitchell bomber which was heavily produced during WW2!
Confusing this airplane story is as the XB-22 Douglas aircraft was actually crafted into the B-23 Dragon aircraft but only
38 were built and it first flew on July 27th 1939! It is this aircraft and the date of it's first flight and the fact that
the year of the Dragon was 1940 that we started having No.27 cigarette's smoked around us as we wondered who would smoke or
call their cigarettes No.27? How strange! True Story! Tinker Johnson Grand Planet Airship Company Inc. Fla.