Vin Fiz Flyer
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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 journey that took almost three months.
Vin Fiz American transcontinental flight advertisement poster
The Vin Fiz Flyer on display in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in 2012
Vin Fiz Flyer stamp (upper left) on an envelope postmarked 1911
San Diego Air & Space Museum
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San Diego Air & Space Museum is an aviation and space exploration museum in San Diego, California, United States. The museum is located in Balboa Park and is housed in the former Ford Building, which is listed on the US National Register of Historic Places. SDASM was established by articles of incorporation on October 12, 1961, and opened to the public on February 15, 1963.
Museum entrance in 2009, with a Convair YF2Y-1 Seadart on the left and a Lockheed A-12 Oxcart on the right.
Entrance of the Ford Building with Firestone Singing Fountains, 1935.
The San Diego Air and Space Museum as seen from overhead in 2013.
The Apollo 9 Command Module Gumdrop flown in 1969 by James McDivitt, David Scott, and Rusty Schweickart in preparation of the first lunar landing missions