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    The Vin Fiz Flyer was an early Wright Brothers Model EX pusher biplane that in 1911 became the first aircraft to fly coast-to-coast across the U.S., a...
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    Model B, redesignated Model EX (for Exhibition) achieved fame as the Vin Fiz Flyer, the first aircraft to cross the United States. Burgess also planned...
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    Philatelist, November 2011. Eckland, K. O. "The Epic Flight of the Vin Fiz Flyer". Aerofiles. Retrieved December 9, 2011. Strother, French (January 1912)...
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    1911 Type Militaire, Beachey "Little Looper" (reproduction), and the Vin Fiz Flyer (reproduction). The museum also has the California lunar sample displays...
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    relations with the press. As Wilbur and Orville's efforts to market the Wright Flyer took them to Washington, D.C., and Europe, Katharine wrote them letters...
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    a fire destroyed the entire business district on Nebo. The famous Vin Fiz Flyer landed north of the town in 1911. A bank was established in 1946. William...
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    1877, for a balloon flight from Nashville to Gallatin, Tennessee. The Vin Fiz Flyer, an early airplane, also carried semi-official stamps on its 1911 flight...
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    Wright Model A Model B Model C Model D Model E Model EX (Vin Fiz Flyer) Model F Model G Model HS Model K Model R...
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    United Helicopters UH-4 Velie Monocoupe Model 70 Vin Fiz Flyer – replica Wisk Cora Gen5 Wright Flyer – replica Baker electric automobile Messerschmitt...
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    transcontinental airplane flight from Sheepshead Bay to California in the Vin Fiz Flyer. 1916 – First night flight. [citation needed] 1917 – First flight of...
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    transcontinental flight across North America: Calbraith Perry Rodgers flew the Vin Fiz Wright Model EX biplane through a seventy-plus-stop trek across the United...
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    Wright Model A Model B Model C Model D Model E Model EX (Vin Fiz Flyer) Model F Model G Model HS Model K Model R...
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  • flight, and in return he named the plane after Armour's grape soft drink "Vin Fiz". Rodgers left from Sheepshead Bay, New York, on September 17, 1911, at...
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    Waco UPF-7 Lockheed T-33 Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-10 Wright Model EX "Vin Fiz Flyer" – Replica Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress 44-83785 Consolidated PBY-5A...
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    trans-continental flight, Bowers crafted a reproduction of the Wright Brothers' Vin Fiz Flyer (first plane to fly across the U.S.). The plane was built to airworthy...
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    Air & Space. 27 (7): 28–29. Eckland, K. O. "The Epic Flight of the Vin Fiz Flyer". Aerofiles. Retrieved December 9, 2011. Charlie Wentz. Who Was Calbraith...
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    Stoddard-Hamilton Glasair Super II RG Thorp/Paulic T3B-1 Wright EX Vin Fiz Flyer – replica Allison T56 Series III[citation needed] Andover V-32[citation...
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    Wright Model A Model B Model C Model D Model E Model EX (Vin Fiz Flyer) Model F Model G Model HS Model K Model R...
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  • Voisin VIII Wittman Buster Chief Oshkosh Wright EX Vin Fiz Flyer 1903 Wright Flyer 1909 Wright Military Flyer Opened in 2003, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center...
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    Goes On – Not Even Wrong". Retrieved 13 May 2012. "AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Dec. 30, 1929". Time. 30 December 1929. Archived from the original on 18...
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  • June 1985 First unpowered atmospheric flight on another celestial body Vin Fiz Flyer Modified Wright Model B (Model EX) Private Calbraith Perry Rodgers 1911...
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  • winners of the award received a trophy depicting the Wright brothers' Wright Flyer aircraft. From 2010 onwards, a redesigned trophy featuring a silver obelisk...
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    in 1911 (with many stops and crashes) in a Wright Model EX named the "Vin Fiz" (after the sponsor's grape soft drink); and Eddie Stinson, founder of...
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    Rodgers arrived in Pasadena, California, landing his airplane, the Vin Fiz Flyer at 4:04 pm, to become the first person to fly across the United States...
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  • coast-to-coast airplane flight across the continental United States in the Vin Fiz Flyer. The trip takes 49 days, with several crashes en route. 1 December –...
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    In 1911 Calbraith Perry, “C.P.,” Rogers landed his Wright Flyer Biplane nicknamed the “Vin Fiz,” after the carbonated soda produced by the sponsor of the...
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  • Wright CH Hydroaeroplane Wright Model D Scout Wright Model E Wright EX Vin Fiz Wright Model F Tin Cow Wright Model G Aeroboat Wright Model H Wright HS...
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    before October 10, 1911. Sponsored by the Armour Company and flying the Vin Fiz, Rodgers made 69 landings, including 19 crashes. When the deadline for...
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