Ok so cool we are publishing! It is the 9th of July 2015 year of the wooden sheep! And it is a Thursday
or Thor's day in old Saxon! The aircraft codex code for the 7th and 8th were the DB-7 which was the export version of the
Douglas A-20 Havoc of which after an inventory search only one of these aircraft was found intact even though 7478 were produced! And
then the Grumman F7F Tiger cat twin engine carrier fighter plane which after several prototypes on F7F tiger cat was
used in carrier operations and then the Grumman F-8 Bearcat which was called the G-58 program and first flew on 21 August
1944 over 1265 were built and used by the South Vietnams air force until 1963 when Little Tinker brought back from the field shot
down, badly damaged helicopters into Saigon to be shipped back to the states by ship we would drive by the south Vietnamese
air force officers club there in Saigon and see an F-8 bearcat sitting on top of the fountain in the court yard of the club!
And and the new Boeing 737 jet maritime servellance aircraft the P-8 Poseidon which is a 737 jetliner with all sorts
of electronic war fare stuff on it it cost's between $201 million and $270 million dollars each! And the Grumman
Korean war jet's the F9F Cougar and F9F Panther one was a swept wing jet and another was a straight wing jet! They were both
used in the beginning of the Korean war and at the end of it and an F9F Panther was used in the movie," Bridges of Tokyo Rhea"!
For July 10th we have the Martin B-10 bomber which first flew on 16 February 1932 and won the Collier trophy for aircraft
design of the XB-10 in 1932 it was the first of all metal mono-plane airframe, closed cockpits, rotating gun turrets and retractable
landing gear many flew with the Dutch in south east asia and in China with the nationalist forces! they built the B-12, YB-13,
XB-14, A-15 and the 0-45 over 300 were produced at a cost of about $58,000 dollars each and the last one retired in 1949
from the Thiland royal air force!
July the 11th 2015 we have the PT-11
built by Consolidated fleet in 1931 it was a two seat trainer and only 41 were built in Mexico and Canada none were built
for local use! It was called in the company as the model 21!
These days of
prohibition before 1933 an army aircraft designation act of 1922 relate to the transformation after prohibition was passed
alcoholic beverages became harder to get as regulations were met in its distribution!
It is 7/11/2015 and we are looking at pictures of the planet Pluto sent back by an unmanned robot spaceship with cameras
on board! On the internet very interesting!
Also pictured below is an Ercoupe 415C
from 1946-47 and Tinker owned and operated one flying in the mid west after Vietnam but I also got married and in the end
had to sell it! Owning your own airplane in America is one of the most amazing things free citizens can do! And learning to
navigate across country and explore new places in your little airplane is more then just rewarding and flights properly managed
and directed could bring in business opportunities and a wealth of information! Paying insurance gas and maintenance and having
it come out of you own pocket every time you want to fly will focus your world!
for July 13th
2015 Monday or moon's day in old saxon it is also the 7th month of the year and 7 is a powerful symbolic number and it
falls on a Monday which is when the stock exchanges open after being closed since Friday afternoon!
July 13th we have the A/C codex code the Vultee BT-13 Valiant training plane which first flew on 24 March 1939 ( "Be-ware
of the IDS of March"!). Over 9000 were produced also as the BT-15 and many pilots got their training in them and many aircraft
were sold war surplus! the training pilot programs taught pilots how to operate manual flaps radio communication and navigation
and cross country and landings and takeoffs it had a two position propeller which caused the window panes to vibrate when
aircraft took off it was dubbed by many pilots as the, "Vultee Vibrator"!
There are several different
types of WW2 trainers the BT-13 and BT-15 the PT-16 and PT-17 the Douglas B-18 Bolo bomber and the Fairchild PT-19 which started
a smaller semi-conductor company and this sold licenses to build transistors and later computer chips! It is this company
we see movement in just before (9/11 in 2001) from a Israeli group known only as M-7 and then later acquired by the Israeli
defense contractor based here in the U.S. the late 90's there was a lot of foreign money coming into the Unites States that
and the Dot com Boom Bust brought into the world were the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq and Afganistan!