In this episode, Emma Crawford, of YouTube’s AeroVerse Channel learns the ins and outs of our early era U.S. air show life at the famous New York Old Rinebeck Aerodrome.

Emma gets up close and personal with the 1917 Hispano-Suiza-powered version of the First Aero’s Curtiss Jenny, the Navy’s higher-horsepowered model (which had 180 HP) and was designated the JN-4H model. This Navy V-8 water-cooled Spanish and Swiss-manufactured engine has double the horsepower of the inveterate Jenny’s Curtiss OX-5 V-8 engine (which had only 90 HP).  The added horsepower helped make the Navy Jenny both easier – and safer –  to pilot.

The video below is 34:49 long.