The Jethro. D. Blaney monoplane was a design with a high, frail-looking, cantilever wing attached to a pylon above the box-like undercarriage and engine. The Kirkham engine drove a chain-driven prop that was mounted midway between the undercarriage and engine, which gave it a low center of gravity. It was designed by Blaney with the mechanical engineering done by Chance Vought, who thought it was “two years behind the times.” It was tested at Cicero Flying Field in July 1911, but never left the ground. After it was given a few more failed trial runs, like a number of other unsuccessful experimental aeroplanes at Cicero Field, the Blaney Monoplane remained there and was later abandoned.
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