The Vin Fiz Flyer was an early Wright Brothers Model EX pusherbiplane, that in 1911 became the first to cross the North American continent by air.The publisher William Randolph Hearst had offered a US$50,000 prize to the first aviator to fly coast to coast, in either direction, in less than 30 days from start to finish.Calbraith Perry Rodgers, grandson of naval hero Oliver Hazard Perry and a risk-taking sort of sportsman, had taken about 90 minutes of instruction from Orville Wright in June 1911 before soloing, and had won an $11,000 air endurance prize in a contest in August. Rodgers became the first private citizen to buy a Wright airplane, a Wright Model B modified and called the Model EX.
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(Scott CL2) A 25¢ stamp lithographed in black taken from the name of a grape soda whose sponsor promoted a coast flight in 1911. The bottom wings of the biplane were inscribed "Vin Fiz."
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