Tuesday the 4th of February (Des Martin Day) Ok so cool we are publishing the aircraft template
for today and we added the Curtis JN-4 Jenny training plane from WW1 over 6413 were built by the Curtis aircraft and Motor company
in Buffalo New York but six other aircraft manufacturers were used in producing the total number of aircraft which one was
Charles Lindberg's first airplane in 1923! Born in 1907 with an 8th grade formal education and his first job at
the fore runner of the Eastman Kodak Company, In 1916 Glenn Curtis formed the Glenn Curtis aero-plane and Motor Company
from two separate companies the aero-plane company and the Motor company bringing them together with a move to Buffalo New
York where he went public they say and in Buffalo there were more employment pools and structural systems and investment money!
building aircraft for the U.S. Army that badly needed them in 1920 the government contract stopped and Curtis cashed out of
his company for 32 million dollars and moved to Florida where he retained a position in the company in design only!
Co founding the town of Hileah and help designing Opa Locka Florida in Florida he started 18 different corporations and served
on several commission's on July 5th 1929 ( the Black Friday stock market crash was October 29th 1929) ( in 1928 central Florida
was hit by a terrible hurricane which drowned thousand of people and many were buried in mass graves), the Glenn
Curtis aero-plane and Motor Company became the Curtis Wright Company and in 1930 in court during a law suit case with
another earlier business partner Curtis had a appendicitus attack in court and died with complications from that! The
Curtis Wright company became the largest producer of aircraft and aircraft materials in the world and during WW2 they were
famous for their P-36 and P-40 War-hawk Tomha-hawk and Kitty-hawk aircraft,(made famous as the aircraft flown by
the flying Tiger's in China), and the C-46 Commando cargo aircraft! although not following the evolution of the jet engine
like other aircraft companies Curtis Wright is said to of built a transonic wind tunnel and studied and worked with the U.S.
Navy in the nuclear and nuclear power field's!
The next is the Grumman F4F Wildcat
navy fighter plane built by Grumman!
And the TU-4 Tupolev reversed engineered Boeing B-29 Super Fortress built
by the Soviet Union which first flew in 1947 and over 800 were built and the first Russian aircraft to drop an atomic bomb!
The Grumman F4F-Wildcat first flew on the 2nd of September and entered service in December 1940 over 7885 were built and fought
against the Japanese A6M- Mitsubushi Zero fighter plane! The next aircraft for the 4th is the F4U Chance Vaught Corsair
which development started in 1938 and was fitted with the most powerful piston engine at the time the double wasp engine it's
inverted gull wing big engine and large propeller made it the first navy fighter with a piston engine to travel over 400mph
in level flight although its design had to be much modified to entertain landing's and takeoff's from aircraft carriers it
was the longest production of piston aircraft in the U.S. inventory(1942-43 until 1953) over 12,271 were produced and
used in combat mainly by Marines in a land base operation mode! Also used in Korea one F4U shot down a Soviet MIG 15
jet fighter before being shot down by another MIG 15 jet ! The F4U-Corsair first flown on May 28th 1940 introduction
1943 Chance Vaught was overwhelmed by the demand for the aircraft and had units manufactured also by both by
Brewster and Goodyear!
February 5th Wednesday ( the day some banks were closed to do their paperwork
if they invested in exchanges before electronic calculating machines and computer's )2014 Year of the Horse! The aircraft
Template for todays codex is the PBY-5 and PBY-6 Consolidated amphibious patrol bomber which first flew on 28 March 1935
( the date of the nuclear accident at three mile Island in 1979) and called the model 28 program which over 3000 thousand
were built at a cost of about $90.000 dollars each Manufactured in both Canada and the Soviet Union and used in every
theater in WW2! Designated PBY by naval 1922 designation rules PB ( Patrol bomber), Y (Consolidated the manufacturer)
February 6th 2014 Thursday (Thor's Day) Year of the Horse!
the aircraft for today we have is the North American
aviation T-6 Texan known by the British as the, (Harvard) WW2 advanced training plane. Over 15495 T-6 SNJ Harvard aircraft
were built also known as the AT-6! First flown in 1st April 1935 (Aprils fool's day) it entered service in March 1937! Tinker
(bell) did not see how much it cost!
There is a T-6 Texan 2 ( a product of the PC-9
Pilatus aircraft company of Switzerland which is marketed by the Beechcraft company turbo-prop modern day trainer used
by the U.S. air forces and built by other manufactures and used by other air force's it replaced in 1995 the original T-6 Texan
used in the South African air force and was also used as an insurgent fighter with a variant described as the A-27)!
Also on the sixth is the F6F-Hellcat (Grumman) an upgraded version of the F4F Wildcat it served in WW2 and Korea I think!
Over 12275 F6F were produced 11000 in two years! the project to replace the F4F Wildcat with the F6F Hellcat was started
in 1938! The cost per aircraft in 1945 was $35000 each! It was replaced by the F-8 bearcat also built by Grumman
The
F6F Hellcat shot down or destroyed in strafing attacks on enemy airfields over 5000 enemy aircraft more that any other
single aircraft in the allied inventory! First flew on 26 June 1941 entered service in 1943!
The next
aircraft was the date codex code for February 7th 2014 is the Grumman F7F Tigercat a twin engine carrier based fighter bomber
which first flew in 1943 over 300 were produced and even though did not see service in WW2 it did see service in Korea! Going
to be called the Tomcat at first the name was pulled as being too suggestive and the Tomcat designation was used on the F-14
jet fighter plane!