Yesterday I gave David’s Curtiss JN-4 (commonly referred to as “Jenny”) to Bill, our neighbour and David’s fellow aviation enthusiast. They built the plane together, and it was David’s pride and joy — very much a labour of love and untold hours of engineering.
Lots of recycled materials were used, too. For example, on page 26, David wrote that he used bamboo skewers for skids, automotive vacuum tubing for cockpit coaming, and a plastic peanut jar for windshields! He also notes, in typical AviatorDave fashion: “This plane is not approved for flight if your pilot figure does not have a white scarf flying back in the slipstream.” (more…)