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| Photo # 15
-- Angela Magney writes that her great-grandfather, E. H.
Duffy, flew Curtiss Jennies for the U.S. Mail in 1924, but our records show that he was
not a pilot with the U.S. Air Mail Service. Is this plane a Jenny? What
airmail service could he have flown for in Long Beach, California? Time and place
would be appreciated. E-mail answer to:
Air Mail
Pioneers
It LOOKS kinda like a Jenny, with a good ol' V-8 engine (OX-5?), but is the engine front / radiator right? Not a Laird Swallow (an improved Jenny knock-off), since their radiator was round, but that streamlined turtledeck behind the pilot's head doesn't seem to be a Jenny trait (maybe I'm way wrong.) Perhaps the Standard J-1 (the next-most-common plane in the Jenny category)?
Photo courtesy of Angela Magney |