Ok so cool we are publishing and our page came up to the top of the page column!
Well June the 3rd 2014 we have on our Aircraft codex template the P-3 Orion (Lockheed, Lockheed -Martin) about 757 of these
aircraft have been built and they were first flown in November 1959 undergoing many modifications and at a cost of about $36
million dollars each 1987! Filled with electronic gear to hunt submarines and stuff the P-3 Orion was recently replaced with
the P-8 Poseidon (Boeing) each of these aircraft cost about $201 million to $270 million each and only about 15 or so have
been built! Also there is the (Douglas) DC-3 ( military version the C-47), of which they built some 16,079 of the units
at a price of at a price of $79,500 a 2014 cost at $1,367,518 and so many operators are still using the DC-3 C47 today they
were impossible to list on the internet today several updated versions have been produced from the 1935 design one with two turbo-prop
engines and another with three turboprop engines! First flight was 17 December 1935 (the 32 anniversary of the Wright Brothers
flight at Kitty-hawk ), The DC-3 could fly between the east coast and the west coast in 15 hours and west coast to east
coast in 17 and a half hours! the Soviet union built some 4,935 C-47 NATO code Name Cab), and the Japanese through the
aircraft company of Nakajima built 487 under the allied code name Tabby)!The 4th of June right before D-day on the 6th of
June we have a lot of aircraft with 4 in their number designation! the Grumman F4F Wildcat and the F4U Corsair ( Vaught) the
JN4 Jenny from WW1 which was Charles Lindberg's first aircraft even though it was built by the Glenn H. Curtiss Aero-plane
and Motor Company of Buffalo, New York. 1916 it was designed by some guy from the British Sopwith Company! Glenn Curtiss cashed
out of his airplane company in 1920 for 32 million dollars and moved to Florida after forming several other companies he died
from appendix attack and the complications from it struck in court with one of his early business partners! That
happened on 23rd of July 1930 while serving as a design consultant for the Curtiss Wright Company ( which made the P-40 War-hawk
of flying tiger's fame)! Later in the same year 1930 in October the 5th the British airship the R-101 crashed on its maiden flight
in France on its way to India ( Several heads of British aviation departments died in crash), when we look
to the real start of WW2 we think pretty much about this time as the R101 first flew in 1929 the year the stock market crashed
and 1928 when a big hurricane hit central Florida drowning thousands of people! Then in 1927 was the year Congress here in
the U.S. passed the Helium Export Act which pretty much made Germany have to use Hydrogen gas which blew up the Hindenburg
LZ127 in Lake hurst New Jersey on May the 6th 1937!
Also on the 4th of June we have the
PB4-Y-2 (Consolidated) Privateer patrol bomber actually designed from a B-24 Liberator with a different tail design the
first Privateer was introduced in 1943 and a few were used in late WW2! The Navy took control of 715 aircraft but we do not
have a price several were used in the French Indo China war ( early Vietnam) and several were shot down operated on various
spy missions off the coast of China and in Burma! Similar in design of the B-32 Dominator ( Consolidated) of which they only
built 188! Several were used as forest fire water bombers but crashed and were grounded in 2002!
One of the thing's about these navy patrol bombers is that the Orion was known in Greek Literature as the Hunter but interestingly
enough the story is Orion was accidently killed by an arrow that related to Cupid and Valentines Day!