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Title: What plane is this?
Post by: xray328 on January 02, 2018, 03:12:44 PM

Can anyone help identify this plane?

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Title: Re: What plane is this?
Post by: TheSkyHornet on January 02, 2018, 03:56:36 PM

Looks like a Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny"

Title: Re: What plane is this?
Post by: xray328 on January 02, 2018, 04:15:08 PM

Thanks

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Title: Re: What plane is this?
Post by: Larry Mangum on January 02, 2018, 06:14:02 PM

The first known photo of Eclipse in uniform, informing the pilot that he failed to properly obtain a flight release from a SFRO.

Title: Re: What plane is this?
Post by: Luis R. Ramos on January 02, 2018, 07:45:35 PM

If you look at this website, the photo of the grey airplane number 6226 appears to be from the same angle of your photo. If you look under the wing there is that semicircular tubing, the radiator, and the exhaust arrangement is similar in both photos. If not for TheSky initial assessment of your photo as it being a Jenny I would not have found this.

http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/models/aircraft/Curtiss-MailJenny.html

Title: Re: What plane is this?
Post by: TheSkyHornet on January 02, 2018, 09:53:40 PM

The immediate indicator on the Jenny is the nose with that semi-circle-to-square block shape. Add in the "skids" under the wings, and then the exhaust. The pipes in that photo are hard to see, but that's another distinct feature.

I have to retract my assumption that it's a JN-4. It could be a -2 or -3. I'm not an expert enough to really spot the differences. Some of them had engine cowlings added too to cover the manifold.

First official mail carrier aircraft.

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