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RyanShort1
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Anyone else who's visited the Texas Air Museum here in San Antonio is disqualified from answering...

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Curtiss Jenny wheel?

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Got the manufacturer right...

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Looks a lot bigger than Jenny -

Curtiss Condor wheel?

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Chris Brame wrote:
Looks a lot bigger than Jenny -

Curtiss Condor wheel?


Correct!

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Great! (You can keep the pony.)

Was it from a wreck site, or squirreled away in some forgotten corner of a hangar?

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the WHEEL or the AXLE that made the wheel useful!!

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Wheel from a Curtiss Condor airliner.(?)
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