{"id":874,"date":"2016-08-08T15:53:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T21:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iseeancestors.com\/comm\/?p=874"},"modified":"2016-08-08T15:53:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T21:53:56","slug":"a-curtiss-jn-4-jenny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/2016\/08\/08\/a-curtiss-jn-4-jenny\/","title":{"rendered":"A Curtiss JN-4 Jenny"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CurtissMy great-granduncle John Yuncker was a piano sales manager in Los Angeles during the early 20th century. Here he participated in aviation history by taking one of the first-ever commercial passenger trips on August 30, 1919.\u00a0 As I describe in a previous post<\/a>, he flew from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara to close on the sale of a very expensive piano.<\/p>\n

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The airplane appears to be a Curtiss JN-4 \u201cJenny.\u201d\u00a0 It was owned by Syd Chaplin, half-brother of Charlie Chaplin. Here John Yuncker is pictured taking off on his flight, and later being greeted by his colleague Harry Braden upon his return. <\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>\u00a0 A montage of an unrelated, restored Jenny is shown for comparison. <\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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The \u201cJenny\u201d was also the airplane pictured on the famous postage stamp known as the Inverted Jenny. <\/span>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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My great-granduncle John Yuncker was a piano sales manager in Los Angeles during the early 20th century. Here he participated in aviation history by taking one of the first-ever commercial passenger trips on August 30, 1919.\u00a0 As I describe in a previous post, he flew from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara to close on the … Continue reading “A Curtiss JN-4 Jenny”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":309,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15,96],"tags":[119,97],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-life-and-times","category-surname-yuncker","tag-aircraft","tag-yuncker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}