Re: Triva Time II (an easy one this time)

Mark Boesen Wed Dec 12, 2012 1:03 pm

LOL! ...now wait a minute, when was the last time you saw a barn with doors big enough to actually fly threw? A Jenny or Standards wingspan is probably 35’+, so tell me how common was this to see, maybe a large hanger…but not a barn!

SuperDave Wed Dec 12, 2012 2:20 pm

Mark Boesen wrote:LOL! ...now wait a minute, when was the last time you saw a barn with doors big enough to actually fly threw? A Jenny or Standards wingspan is probably 35’+, so tell me how common was this to see, maybe a large hanger…but not a barn!

Mark:

Have you ever considered that a Curtiss JN4 "Jenny" may have has it's wings "clipped" flying through a open barn door? Laughing

It WAS known to happen and the Jenny was rugged enough to fly out the other side.

Spectating aviation stunts was like watch a NASCAR race today. They are really not very interting until the crashes. sleep

Besides "barnstorming" consider the specator popularity of "wing walking". Planes of the era were prinicipally biplanes which made "wing walking" a natural populular spectator event. "wing Walkers" performed WITHOUT parachutes making their performance even more thrilling to the paying spectator.

Some "wing walkers" came "down to earth" rather abruptly. lol!

pkrankow Wed Dec 12, 2012 2:46 pm

Also remember that these surplus Jennys were selling for as little as $200.

A Ford model T new was $240 in 1925.

Phil

source:wikipedia

crankbndr Wed Dec 12, 2012 2:48 pm

Most have probably seen "Jenny in a tree" but for those who have not, not many trees to hit in that field.

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pkrankow Wed Dec 12, 2012 2:49 pm

SuperDave wrote:
Mark Boesen wrote:LOL! ...now wait a minute, when was the last time you saw a barn with doors big enough to actually fly threw? A Jenny or Standards wingspan is probably 35’+, so tell me how common was this to see, maybe a large hanger…but not a barn!

...
Have you ever considered that a Curtiss JN4 "Jenny" may have has it's wings "clipped" flying through a open barn door? It WAS known to happen and the Jenny was rugged enough to fly out the other side.
...

Makes that horrible Atari game seem even more ridiculous.
Phil

SuperDave Wed Dec 12, 2012 3:42 pm

Phil:

I don't "do" video games, reality is plenty entertaining for me. Smile

To each his own. Cool

pkrankow Wed Dec 12, 2012 3:55 pm

SuperDave wrote:Phil:

I don't "do" video games, reality is plenty entertaining for me.

To each his own.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnstorming_%28video_game%29
I was a whole lot younger at the time, and video games were a whole lot more simple. There is a pretty good and accurate YouTube video review, but I won't link because of the language used.

Phil

SuperDave Wed Dec 12, 2012 3:57 pm

pkrankow wrote:Also remember that these surplus Jennys were selling for as little as $200.

A Ford model T new was $240 in 1925.

Phil

source:wikipedia

The reason surplused Jenney's were inexpensive wasbecause America had just completed "The Great War", fought "The war to end all wars" and "Made the World Safe for Democacy".

The "Roaring Twenties" (The Jazz Age") was a time of frivolity and isolationism as America withdrew unto itself. Warren G. Harding successfully campaigned with the slogan "Return to Normalcy" and was elected President in 1920.

source: my fertile mind not yet fossilized. Wink

See if you can recognize a pattern emerging.

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