The Curtiss standard JN4-D military tractor hand book, 1918

Vintage Original Hardcover with interesting related ephemera, 1918 Curtiss Airplane and Motor Corporation 72 pages. Very Good, no DJ. Minor shelf/edge wear to thin green cloth boards with black titles. FFEP and the following title pages have a small tear and some wrinkles caused by paper clips. All three fold-out diagrams are present. One is on the tail section and the other two are a front view and a side view. A handbook of the workings of the Curtiss Standard JN4-D Military Tractor. Contents include specifications, examination of parts, general construction, flying, landing, tables, and more. 20 vintage B & W plates. The Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" was one of a series of "JN" biplanes built by the Curtiss Aeroplane Company of Hammondsport, New York, later the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company. Although the Curtiss JN series was originally produced as a training aircraft for the U.S. Army, the Jenny" continued after World War I as a civil aircraft, as it became the "backbone of American postwar [civil] aviation." Thousands of surplus Jennys were sold at bargain prices to private owners in the years after the war and became central to the barnstorming era that helped awaken the U.S. to civil aviation through much of the 1920s. Laid in is a letter from Herb Youngblood of the Engineering Department of the Hyatt Roller Bearing Co of Detroit, Mich (on the company Stationery) to Mr. J. D. Roach at Selfridge Field Mt Clemens, Mich. The letter is about this booklet and is hoped to be of some assistance in preparing a similar booklet for the Hispano-Suiza Motor Company. Also mentions fishing in Walled Lake. This is a great business/personal letter concerning this booklet written by and to a fellow colleague in early Aviation circles. A very nice vintage aeronautical piece with great ephemera. LOC SSS-26

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Publisher: Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation

Year: 1918-01-01

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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