Jenny: The Airplane That Taught America to Fly

The WW2 pilots who were the first to fly jets learned to fly in little cloth & wooden biplanes, the aircraft of the 1920s & 1930s. One such airplane was the Curtiss JN4 Jenny,Ó known as the Model T of airplanesÓ because it was the first aircraft to be mass-produced. Jennys became the airplane of choice for barnstormers & early airmail pilots. Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart & Bessie Coleman learned to fly in Jennys. This is the story of this remarkable airplane from the point of view of an early pilot. It imagines the experience of flying a Jenny, & illustrates how an aircraft was made during a time when building airplanes was a craft. Young readers can understand not only how they were built, but how their control surfaces work & how they fly. Ill.Weitzman, David is the author of 'Jenny: The Airplane That Taught America to Fly', published 2002 under ISBN 9781422355824 and ISBN 1422355829.