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July 31, 2023

Timber Tiger Offers the Early Bird Jenny

AirVenture Crowds Find New Home for Beloved Homebuilt

While the order form has been live for a while, Timber Tiger hasn’t really made a big deal out of their newly available Early Bird Jenny kit, a charming little riff on the classic WWI warbird in reduced scale. The Curtis JN-4 Jenny cemented its place in history as a classic barnstormer in the early heyday of aviation, built up through plentiful government surplus and a never-ending roster of daring pilots willing to put the new-old-stock through its paces. Surplus Jennys, of course, have faded into history over the last century, with only 4 airworthy ones left by the late 70s.

Helicopter v Gyro MidAir... and a T-6 Down in Lake Winnebago

The wind-up weekend of AirVenture 2023 has taken a bad turn. ANN is researching details of what has been reported to be a T-6 that went down in Lake Winnebago, with apparent fatalities, as well as a MidAir collision that involved a Rotorway Exec Helicopter and an ELA Aviacion ELA-10 Eclipse Gyroplane. Just after 0900 local time, reports came in of an accident at Lake Winnebago. A North American T-6 had apparently descended rapidly to the water and went down in an area that was about 20 feet deep.