Ok so cool we are publishing! It is October the 7th 2014 and way back on this date
in 1944 in the dark days of WW2 Helmut Lent's Ju-88 nightfighter he was flying had a miss fire and trying to contol the aircraft
crashed into high tension power lines and he was killed he had we think 112 victories and was awarded the nights cross
and Herman Goreing spoke at his funeral! The aircraft we thought of todays date was the Douglas DB-7 which became also to
be called the A-20 Havoc and it first flew on 23 January 1939 WW2 started in September the 1st 1939! Ed Heinemann designed
the aircraft which through a broken secret was exported, ( the arnaments export act of 1935 prohibited the sale of the aircraft
and other weapons of war and called the Neutrality act of 1935), under the DB-7 to the French but the secret was found
out when the aircraft was being tested in single engine operation and crashed! The French were still impressed and ordered
100 of them and then later 270 of them! They were used againt Rommel in North Africa and other places and started from a design
project in March 1937 ( Beware of the IDS of March!). And they built 7478 of them 2908 were sent to the Soviet Union and we
do not have a price per unit!
For October the 8th 2014 year of the Horse we have
the Grumman F-8 Bearcat fighter plane which was developed at the end of WW2 and used also in Korea and Vietnam and recently
we have The Pe-8 Russian bomber which had four engines but was not the copy of the Boeing B-29 which was called the TU-4 Bull(
NATO code name) the Pe-8 was also built by Tupolev and was renamed after its designer died in an air crash during WW2! this
aircraft bombed berlin in August 1941 and used to carry Soviet diplomats to the U.S. during WW2 it was used up until the late
1950's in Artic circle as it was designed for cold weather operation's!
Also
for October the 8th 2014 we have been reporting on a new aircraft the Boeing P-8 Poseidon which is built from the airframe
of a 737-800 airliner and cost's between $201 million dollars and $270 million dollars each depending on the electronics platform
for the Model reportedly as of 2013 about 15 of these aircraft have been built! the Indian Navy is said to of ordered the
aircraft and are going to call it the Neptune! The Lockheed PV2-7 Neptune patrol bomber was used after WW2 as it first flew
in 1945 and was an intermediate nuclear bomber version that coild take off from a carrier at land base and sea targets
and may have been designed to ditch in the water after it's mission! One Lockheed Neptune every crevice of its interior
filled with auxillary gas tanks flew from Perth Austrialia to the east coast of the United States (Columbus Ohio it took almost
three day's) with a baby Kagaroo for the national zoo! the Indian Navy's Boeing P-8 Neptune comes on the news of a 14th moon
reported last year being discovered in orbit of the Planet Neptune last year!