Origin of the name Jenny for the Curtiss Aeroplane

What was the origin of the name Jenny, my mother asked if it was named after Curtiss's wife? I have never thought about that before. Anyone know?



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[PeterL]

Rather less romantic than that I'm afraid. The aircraft combined features of the model J and the model N. Just as later G.P. would become "jeep", J/N became Jenny.

[Dan_San_Abbott]

Cam:
When Curtiss combined two earlier designs, J and N which became JN which lead to the famous JN-4 series of aircraft, Jenny is the transliteration of JN. The first airplane ride I can remember was in my Father's Curtiss JN-4D in 1927. I was fascinated by the rocker arm action on the OX5 engine. This was at the old Mills Field in San Francisco, It is now called the San Francisco International Airport.
Blue skies,
Dan-San

Thanks Peter and Dan San.





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[stephen]

Hey, two wks ago when we were shooting the Oshkosh airshow for Speedvision, I was checking out the old Standard Jenny they had on display in some dark corner of Pioneer Field's hangars. I wanted to include it in a WWI piece I was doing, but wasn't sure that the Standard Jenny was used as commonly as the Curtiss model for training. So I chickened out and didn't use it at all. We would surely have been deluged with letters over the slightest mistake. But wasn't the Standard used for some training duties as well?

Seven down, forty-three to go.

[PeterL]

"...wasn't the Standard used for some training duties as well?"


I'm sure the answer must be yes. But in anycase, the Standard deserves to be better known if only because Waldo Pepper flew one

[Ira_Silverman]

The Standard J-1 was widely used for training duties during and after the war and was also frequently used for barnstorming ala Waldo P.

But it was identified as the J-1, never as the "Standard Jenny," the Jenny name being reserved for the Curtiss JN series (except for Canadian-built JN's, which became Canucks).

However, the Standard J-1 and the Curtiss JN were similar in appearance and often confused.

VBR,

Ira

The Standard J-1 was widely used for training duties during and after the war and was also frequently used for barnstorming ala Waldo P.

The Standard was also widely used as fodder in aviation movies, being crashed or blown up on-screen many a time (and in many cases irritatingly incongruously).

[Stephanie]

Just a question about the Canadian series JN- Was Canuck a dialect for Chinook, which would be plausible because of it's meaning, or does it connote something else?

[WFS]

Canuck is a nickname for a Canadian. *Especially a French-Canadian. *Supposedly the term comes from when French-Canadians and South-Sea islanders (kanakas) worked together in the American Pacific Northwest fur trapping industry.Wayne