Gallery: The Humble WWI Biplane That Helped Launch Commercial Flight

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    George Johnson, Aviation Section, US Army Signal Corps via <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flying_jenny_cropped.jpg">Wikipedia</a>
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    A Curtiss JN-4 (Jenny) on a training flight during World War I.
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    A group of children and their parents stand in a field around a US Army surplus Curtiss JN4-D 'barnstorming' biplane, Burns, Oregon. The plane was forced to land after running out of fuel, and the pilots returned the next day to offer rides to the townspeople.
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    Eighteen-year-old aviatrix Lillian Boyer hangs from her Curtiss JN-4 biplane before a performance at the Minnesota State Fair in the early 1920s.
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    Canadian Department of National Defence via <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Curtiss_JN-4_in_flight_over_Central_Ontario.jpg">Wikipedia</a>
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    A Curtiss JN-4 in flight over Central Ontario.
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    Maintenance of a Jenny.
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    An unidentiffied 'barnstorming' pilot and a wingwalker perform stunts on a Curtiss 'Flying Jenny' biplane in the air above New Jersey, 1910s or 1920s.
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    Curtiss JN-4 at Signal Corps Flying School, Memphis, Tenn.
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    Curtiss JN-4D Jenny

    The Curtiss JN-4D Jenny in the Early Years Gallery at the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
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