Whittle a Propeller Toy

By Harry Sherrill
Published on March 1, 1981
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A child demonstrates how to launch the propeller toy. 
A child demonstrates how to launch the propeller toy. 
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Diagram shows parts and assembly relationships for the propeller toy.
Diagram shows parts and assembly relationships for the propeller toy.

Way back in 1920 — when I was but a whippersnapper
and aviation was just entering its adolescence — one
of the now legendary “barnstormers” flew a World War I
surplus biplane (a model officially called the JN4, but
more affectionately known as the “Jenny”) above the
one-block-long downtown section of our small Oklahoma town.

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