Of Two Minds
As I mentioned I was off to our local small airport to attend the "Roll Out" of a Curtis Jenny, a replica of the craft flown by Fred McCall Senior, the replica having been built by his son, Fred McCall Junior with the assistance of some friends. Of two minds, the sleek beauty of the small jet and the visions conjured up by the Jenny of "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines". Now, fortunately, we have "Magnificent Pilots" without consideration of gender.
This would be the cockpit of the Curtis Jenny, tandem seating, with the simplest instrumentation for the pilot in the front of the plane.
This would be the wonderful and sleek Cessna Citation and it's cockpit
Ahhhh the "Jenny", in its complicated simplicity and beauty.
This would be the cockpit of the Curtis Jenny, tandem seating, with the simplest instrumentation for the pilot in the front of the plane.
This would be the wonderful and sleek Cessna Citation and it's cockpit
Ahhhh the "Jenny", in its complicated simplicity and beauty.
posted by pingcat at
6/26/2006 10:05:00 PM
4 Comments:
I'll take the jet anyday!!!
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Quodlibet, at June 29, 2006 5:40 PM
The craftmanship looks pretty good!
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Amelia Earhart, at July 01, 2006 3:39 AM
I'll take the jenny anyday! I've done the jet and the proline 21 avionics, flying at 41,000 feet at 0.8 Mach. The jenny transports me into a world when aviation was still romantic. At least, thats what I think, maybe I was a pioneer airman in my previous birth! Nice pictures too.
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Capt. Anup Murthy, at July 12, 2006 6:40 PM
This is very interesting site...
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Anonymous, at August 08, 2006 2:35 PM
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