Curtiss Jenny flies today

Sat May 10, 2008 2:20 pm

Around 9:30A this morning, Frank Schelling's 1918 Curtiss Jenny took off from the grass runway @ Schellville, CA and landed on the grass runway @ nearby Sonoma Skypark to attend a Tayorcraft fly-in. A real treat to see this machine in the air. I am in his debt for the consideration that he showed.

Sun May 11, 2008 1:31 am

What, no pictures???

Sun May 11, 2008 9:28 am

Apologies to Roger and anyone else, but I have not yet succumbed to the digital age...and may never when it comes to a camera. Give me patience and I will try to get to a scanner sometime and share some of my late dads PanAm slides and some of my own.
In the meanwhile, I did want to mention this event here as the Jenny is such a beautiful aircraft. Heck, they all are!
Roger, maybe you could please dig this one out from your archives to show?

Sun May 11, 2008 11:53 am

Hi Tom, just razzing you. It's been posted here on this site a few times in the past, Mike Shreeve was there yesterday, so maybe he'll post some pictures. For now, Mike has some recent pictures posted on PlaneTalk at:
http://forum.planetalk.net/viewtopic.php?t=6001

I didn't get to Sonoma Skypark until about 2:00 yesterday, went to the Hiller Aviation Museum's Trainer Days display earlier in the morning.

Sun May 11, 2008 5:49 pm

Spectacular photos, Tom...thanks for sharing them!
Mike

Sun May 11, 2008 9:47 pm

clipper314 wrote:Spectacular photos, Tom...thanks for sharing them!
Mike

You are welcome, but it's Roger & Mike who were good enough to share the photos. Both do great aviation photography...I'm still learning this after 42 years or so of shooting railroad subjects!

Sun May 11, 2008 11:21 pm

Whoops, my bad...thanks to all of you guys!!

Tom, my dad was an engineer with Norfolk Southern for 30+ years until his retirement about 5 years ago...so I have a soft spot for trains as well

Mike

Mon May 12, 2008 11:38 am

Here are a couple of the Jenny's departure from Skypark to return to Schellville, in a stiff crosswind.

Mon May 12, 2008 3:15 pm

Thanks for posting those photos.
Ever since my first trip to Old Rhinebeck in the early 1970's, I've always loved the Jenny!
Jerry

Mon May 12, 2008 6:19 pm

Yes, it's a very nice aeroplane indeed!

Mon May 12, 2008 10:03 pm

I hate to ask- but is this a reproduction, or the real deal? It is a gorgeous aircraft in any event-
Robbie

Mon May 12, 2008 10:38 pm

This is the real thing, with a Hispano-Suiza engine

Sat May 24, 2008 5:58 pm

Nice to see an old Hisso at full bellow again. I have some pix I'll try to scan of Jay Leno's Spanish-Swiss sports car with an ex-Nieuport V-8 .
Tom M and Clipper 314, I spent seven years as a locomotive engr. with Santa Fe down in Texas before getting downsized in the mid eighties. WIXer Warhawk is a train buff too. I have published about forty tall stories (famous snafu's) of my rail days. A friend in Palestine, Tx. who's a train and warbird buff has them all now and they should be email ready.

Doug Ratchford 'Canso42'

Sat May 24, 2008 8:24 pm

Hey Doug, I would love to read them! I've always liked the paint schemes on the Santa Fe's.

Hope you have a nice Memorial Day weekend!
Mike

Sun May 25, 2008 12:59 am

Roger Cain wrote:This is the real thing, with a Hispano-Suiza engine

I didn't think there were any of those left! Thought the government had converted them all to kindling years ago, under the CAA.

Looks GREAT!

Robbie