Wright Ex "Vin Fiz" Propeller, fixed-pitch, two-blade, wood
date: label: Date
content: 1911
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Wright Company (Dayton, Ohio)
notes: label: Physical Description
content: Type: Two-Blade, Fixed-Pitch, Wood
label: Physical Description
content: Diameter: 254 cm (100 in.)
label: Physical Description
content: Chord:
label: Physical Description
content: Engine Application: Wright vertical four-cylinder engine, 26 kw (35-hp)
label: Summary
content: This artifact is associated with the Wright EX "Vin Fiz," a Wright brothers Model EX aircraft flown by Calbraith Rogers in a 1911 attempt for the first transcontinental flight made in 30 days or less. Sponsored by a company promoting a new grape soda named "Vin Fiz," the flight from New York to California was indeed the first transcontinental flight, but required 70 landings, was plagued by 15 crashes, and missed the prize deadline by 19 days.
label: Summary
content: Originally, Wright airplanes flew with one left-handed and one right-handed propeller. However, both of the donated aircraft propellers were left-handed. The museum later received a right-handed propeller from a second Wright airplane owned by Rodgers, in which he crashed and was killed in 1912. To make the "Vin Fiz" more accurate, the museum installed that right-handed propeller on the displayed aircraft. This subject artifact is the remaining left-handed propeller from the original "Vin Fiz" donation.
place: label: Country of Origin
content: United States of America
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content: National Air and Space Museum Collection
label: Location
content: National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
label: Exhibition
content: Early Flight
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Air and Space Museum
identifier: label: Inventory Number
content: A19340060001
objectType: label: Type
content: PROPULSION-Propellers & Impellers
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Materials
content: Wood
label: Dimensions
content: Diameter: 254 cm (100 in.)