Ok so cool We are publishing our aircraft for today and yesterday was the PT-19 Fairchild
trainer that first flew on 15 May 1939 and was introduced in 1940 over 6397 were built and the company designation was
the M-62!
It was designed by Armand Thiebolt and the first ones were powered by an
in-line aircraft engine called the Ranger! Ranger was one of the first spaceship to take off and with a TV camera in the nose
cone and crash into the moon and take-ing still photographs and sending back to earth to be seen early in the morning
here on earth Tinker remember's his dad getting him up early on a cold morning to watch them on our old Philco TV with rabbit
ear's antenna on it!
The aircraft for the 20th is the Douglas A-20 "Havoc" light
bomber and night fighter many were sent to the Soviet Union (over 2900 of them), and used by the Army Air Force in the North
African campaign! It first flew on 23 January 1939 and introduced in 1940 over 7478 were also produced but it was retired
in 1949 by the U.S. Air Force used by several allied air forces it was known as the "Boston", by the Australian air force!
Tuesday February 18th was the B-18 Bolo and in 1930 February 18th was the day that the Planet Pluto was discovered, we also
noticed that on February 19th 1945 35000 Marines landed on Iwo Jima! and when we go back to the PT-11 which first flew in
1931 and also known as the N4C and 41 were built! 1931 was the year when Lucky Luciano started the "Commisson". And 1930
was when Glen Curtiss of the Glen Curtiss Aero-plane and Motor Company had a appendix attack in court in Buffalo New
York and died from complication's!
February the 21st Friday 2014 (the day that
the NYSE closes until Monday the 24th) the aircraft template for today is the XB-21 which was called the Dragon even though
the real dragon bomber the B-23 was produced by Douglas! The XB-21 which only one was produced however several were
ordered competed against the B-18 Bolo which the bolo won an order of 177 aircraft unit's at $67,000 plus each the XB-21 which
had trouble with the gun turrants was faster then the B-18 Bolo but the XB-21 was $122,000 dollars each! Although the
testing pilot's and crew were impressed with the XB-21 and several were ordered only one was produced and built by North American(
this became the NA-40 project )and that developed into the B-25 Mitchell bomber the mainstay of a lot of medium bomber's in
the U.S. Army Air Corps during WW2!
The XB-21 first flew on 22 December 1936, the Hindenburg
rigid airship crashed at Lake Hurst New Jersey, on May the 6th 1937!