Ok so cool we are publishing todays codex code for aircraft on the 29th of
July is the Boeing B-29 Super fortress the last surviving crew member of the B-29 that dropped the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima
Japan died today and as we find out about the B-29 that the Russians built in secret during the beginning of the cold war
a reversed engineered copy of the aircraft called the Tupelov TU-4 (NATO code name," Bull"). the B-29 was one of the largest
aircraft to come out of WW2 and was used in Korea! The design for a pressurized bomber started in 1938 and the B-29 first
flew on 8 May 1944 3,970 were built at a cost per unit of $639,188 each! They were produced between 1943 and 1946
and the last one was retired on 21 June 1960! The Soviet copy of the aircraft was built from the ground up with the design
project headquartered in a Moscow department store building and connected through and by a telephone switchboard to different
various departments around the USSR! Using metric measurement instead of imperial units of measure the aircraft was only
about 750 pounds heavier then the B-29 and was the first Russian aircraft to drop an atomic bomb although it did not do that
in combat! Over 800 TU-4 aircraft were produced by the Soviet's! The TU-4 Bull was first flown in 1947!
The U.S. had a back up design to the B-29 and that was Consolidated's model 33 which was designated the B-32 Dominator only
118 of these aircraft were built but it is said that they could bomb Europe from airfields in the eastern U.S.! Other aircraft
programs about the long range bomber design were the Lockheed XB-30 and the Douglas XB-31 both of which were canceled!
For the 30th of July we have the early designation of the consolidated B-24 which was called the LB-30 (LB for land
bomber) it first flew on 29 December 1939 and was famous for the Ploiesti Raid on oil refinery's in Romania. B-24 Liberator's
flew long distant at low altitude taking off from airfields in North Africa but were detected early on the mission and the
anti-aircraft crews were ready and warned of the mission and escort fighter planes did not accompany the bombers
and were sitting ducks for AXIS fighter planes! Running between the oil refinery's was a train loaded with anti-aircraft
88mm guns and the ran at full speed firing at the B-24's flying at low altitude over 70 B-24's were said to of been
shot down!
The Ploiesti mission took place on the 1st of August 1943 the same
year the Pentagon was built!
The first of August is also the Wicca religion's Lammas day of
the Harvest and sometimes known as Lughnasadh Day for celebrating the Nordic craftsmen god Lugh a very big Pagan Holiday!
For July 31st 2014 we have some Soviet aircraft we started to get information on and we have the Mikoyan MIG-31 NATO code
name Foxhound which was built as a replacement for the MIG-25 on of the few aircraft that could intercept the Lockheed SR-71
Blackbird the MIG-31 first flew on 16 September 1975 and was introduced 6 May 1981 about 400-500 have been built!
The first of August 2014 brings us into the world of allied nuclear bombers with the Rockwell B-1 Lancer swing wing
variable geometry bomber first flew on 23 December 1974 and entered service on the 1st of October 1986 at a cost of about
$283.1 million dollars each!
For August the 2nd 2014 we have for our A/C template codex
code the Northrop B-2 Spirit, stealth bomber which can carry over 80, 500 pound bombs and nuclear munition's! There
have been several upgrades to the design in both stealth technology and avionics and electronics and computers! The
B-2 first flew on 17 July 1989 and although the initial order for 132 aircraft was intended only 21 have been built and one
crashed costing between $737million and $929 million dollars each ( Fly away cost)!
For August
the 3rd 2014 we have in our codex the Lockheed P-3 Orion which over 734 have been built at a 1987 listed cost of about
$36 million dollars each first flown in November 1959 ( we don't have an exact day date) the design was to replace the PV-2-7
Neptune patrol bomber also built by Lockheed! It was based on an airliner design with a reinforced airframe called the L-188
Electra several of them crashed in flight testing and it was found that the engine mounts were the cause of the crash's
produced between 1961 and 1990 the P-3 Orion was the first aircraft to have a digital computer in its electronics platform
for it's sensors and other stuff related to electronic warfare and anti-submarine duties this aircraft has served for over
50 years in the inventory and it is slated to be replaced by a Boeing 737-800 designed airliner that has had it structure
reinforced and new electronic equipment developed for recon aircraft the name of the new aircraft is designated the
Boeing P-8 Poseidon which was introduced in 2013 at a cost of somewhere in the area of $201 million to $270 million dollars
each! The Indian navy is said to of had ordered the new P-8 but has decided to call their aircraft the Neptune which Tinker
thinks is interesting as Neptune is the name of Planet that this past summer its was discovered to have 14 moon's for 2014!