Inverted Jenny:

[John Stiles]

If anyone can produce an original stamp like this one....I'll give ya $100 bill for it! 

[Paul Smith]

The USPS is reproducing millions of 'em now, for something around 50 cents each.

[John Stiles]

The USPS is reproducing millions of 'em now, for something around 50 cents each.

I want an original....supposedly a stamp collectors dream!

[steven yampolsky]

If anyone can produce an original stamp like this one....I'll give ya $100 bill for it! 

The last one went for $977,000. I charge $970,000 to produce one.

[John Stiles]

The last one went for $977,000. I charge $970,000 to produce one.

Geeeeeeezzz, I hope you take mastercard! 

[Tim Wescott]

John, if I produced some stamps like that the Feds would want to give me 5 to 20 years.

[FLOYD CARTER]

All you have to do is build a Jenny with symmetrical wing, and fly it inverted.  Then, the stamp will be rather ordinary.

F.C.

[john e. holliday]

I've only seen one Jenny flying.  It was when I was approaching Wichita KS for a contest.  It was coming in for a landing and to me looked like it was going to fall out of the air.   Will they fly inverted?

[John Stiles]

I've only seen one Jenny flying.  It was when I was approaching Wichita KS for a contest.  It was coming in for a landing and to me looked like it was going to fall out of the air.   Will they fly inverted?

Depends on who's flying it, the question then becomes can it right itself? 

[RogerGreene]

This one was at Grimes Airfield Bethel PA.

Roger

[RogerGreene]

Another one...

[George]

I would guess they caught a pic of the Jenny at the top of a loop, not flying inverted. 

George

[wwwarbird]

I would guess they caught a pic of the Jenny at the top of a loop, not flying inverted.  

George

 The top of a loop is flying inverted, just not for very long.

 I saw these a couple of weeks ago at the Post Office. I asked and I thought they told me they were 2 bucks apiece. Maybe it was 2 bucks for four?

[Paul Smith]

All you have to do is build a Jenny with symmetrical wing, and fly it inverted.  Then, the stamp will be rather ordinary.

F.C.

I thought it was the top of a loop.

True inverted flight involves hanging the straps while pulling minus one G and having the gravel from the floor get under your glasses.

[Chuck Feldman]

The stamps where a mistake printed sand sold by the USPS. I thought everyone knew that.

[John Stiles]

True inverted flight involves hanging the straps while pulling minus one G and having the gravel from the floor get under your glasses.

I got on a carnival ride with my girlfriend once, I forget the name of the ride, but it was the same as going inverted pulling negative Gs....I know this because all my coinage exited my pockets and was bouncing off everything.....later she told me she had found something.....and handed me a wayward quarter. I treasured that coin for quite some time!

[George]

So we solved the mystery of the stamps, now the Jenny. I remember reading many years ago that early biplanes were not stressed for outside maneuvers and some biplanes folded their wings on outside maneuvers. Seem to remember also that carburetors were not set-up for inverted flight. Do these things apply to the Jenny?

George

[Wayne Collier]

So I've got an old suitcase about a third full of old stamps. Got a lot of them in batches from one place or another when I was much younger.  I never completely looked through some of the batches.  I remember one batch came from a glass jar in someone's kitchen.

They've been in the suitcase for 20 or more years and lived in various boxes before that.

It may be time to finally sort through them?

[Ward Van Duzer]

No, the Jenny is not flying upside down. The stamp was printed in two colors, requiring two passes through the printing press. Once for red, and once for the blue. After the first red printing, the (single) sheet was inadvertantly(?) passed through the blue printing upsidedown.

Mystery(?) solved!

Ward-O

[John Stiles]

No, the Jenny is not flying upside down. The stamp was printed in two colors, requiring two passes through the printing press. Once for red, and once for the blue. After the first red printing, the (single) sheet was inadvertantly(?) passed through the blue printing upsidedown.

Mystery(?) solved!

Ward-O

Jackpot! LOL

[Mike Alimov]

I wanted to get Jenny inverted once, but she said "not so fast, boy!"
 

[Tim Wescott]

Here's a (Sister) Jenny flying inverted, at the 2013 Jim Walker Spring Tuneup in Portland:

[FLOYD CARTER]

I once flew in formation with a Jennie, during an annual Antique Fly-in at the Watsonville (CA) airport.  The Jennie was owned by Jim Nissen, who was the airport manager at the San Jose (CA) airport.  I had a hard time getting slow enough to not overrun the JN.  For a couple passes over the runway, I had to start well behind, flying as slowly as I dared.  So for at least part of the runway, we were pretty well even.

I was flying my Focke-wulf 44J biplane.  It has a low stall speed, but still too fast for the Jennie.

Floyd