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Title: Inverted Jenny:
Post by: John Stiles on December 30, 2013, 07:54:12 AM
If anyone can produce an original stamp like this one....I'll give ya $100 bill for it!  ;D
Title: Re: Inverted Jenny:
Post by: Paul Smith on December 30, 2013, 08:15:03 AM
The USPS is reproducing millions of 'em now, for something around 50 cents each.
Title: Re: Inverted Jenny:
Post by: John Stiles on December 30, 2013, 08:36:48 AM
The USPS is reproducing millions of 'em now, for something around 50 cents each.
I want an original....supposedly a stamp collectors dream! :o ;) ;D
Title: Re: Inverted Jenny:
Post by: steven yampolsky on December 30, 2013, 08:57:06 AM
If anyone can produce an original stamp like this one....I'll give ya $100 bill for it!  ;D

The last one went for $977,000. I charge $970,000 to produce one.
Title: Re: Inverted Jenny:
Post by: John Stiles on December 30, 2013, 09:10:35 AM
The last one went for $977,000. I charge $970,000 to produce one.
Geeeeeeezzz, I hope you take mastercard!  LL~ LL~ LL~
Title: Re: Inverted Jenny:
Post by: Tim Wescott on December 30, 2013, 09:23:34 AM
John, if I produced some stamps like that the Feds would want to give me 5 to 20 years.
Title: Re: Inverted Jenny:
Post by: FLOYD CARTER on December 30, 2013, 06:27:45 PM
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.
Title: Re: Inverted Jenny:
Post by: john e. holliday on December 31, 2013, 08:16:35 AM
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?
Title: Re: Inverted Jenny:
Post by: John Stiles on December 31, 2013, 10:36:11 AM
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?  LL~ LL~ LL~
Title: Re: Inverted Jenny:
Post by: RogerGreene on December 31, 2013, 07:29:31 PM
This one was at Grimes Airfield Bethel PA.

Roger
Title: Re: Inverted Jenny:
Post by: RogerGreene on December 31, 2013, 07:33:36 PM
Another one...
Title: Re: Inverted Jenny:
Post by: George on January 02, 2014, 08:04:00 PM
I would guess they caught a pic of the Jenny at the top of a loop, not flying inverted. 

George
Title: Re: Inverted Jenny:
Post by: wwwarbird on January 02, 2014, 10:47:16 PM
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. ;D

 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?
Title: Re: Inverted Jenny:
Post by: Paul Smith on January 03, 2014, 06:50:46 AM
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.
Title: Re: Inverted Jenny:
Post by: Chuck Feldman on January 03, 2014, 07:01:01 AM
The stamps where a mistake printed sand sold by the USPS. I thought everyone knew that.
Title: Re: Inverted Jenny:
Post by: John Stiles on January 03, 2014, 07:44:04 AM


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! ;D
Title: Re: Inverted Jenny:
Post by: George on January 03, 2014, 07:59:05 AM
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
Title: Re: Inverted Jenny:
Post by: Wayne Collier on January 06, 2014, 06:33:34 AM
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?
Title: Re: Inverted Jenny:
Post by: Ward Van Duzer on January 06, 2014, 11:31:32 AM
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
Title: Re: Inverted Jenny:
Post by: John Stiles on January 06, 2014, 05:02:21 PM
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
Title: Re: Inverted Jenny:
Post by: Mike Alimov on January 06, 2014, 06:27:36 PM
I wanted to get Jenny inverted once, but she said "not so fast, boy!"
 LL~
Title: Re: Inverted Jenny:
Post by: Tim Wescott on January 07, 2014, 01:35:57 PM
Here's a (Sister) Jenny flying inverted, at the 2013 Jim Walker Spring Tuneup in Portland:

(http://flyinglines.org/jw.13.ra.wescottfly.jpg)
Title: Re: Inverted Jenny:
Post by: FLOYD CARTER on January 07, 2014, 03:53:12 PM
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