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[[image: black and white cutout, close up photographs of what appear to be of the cast metal plates, a plaque with raised lettering, the early bird logo (the stylized EB owl figure with extended wings), and the early bird motto (THE INSIGNIA OF THE EARLY BIRD) that appear on the Early Bird Monument shown to the right, as follows]] THIS BRONZE PROPELLER WAS CAST DIRECTLY FROM ONE OF THE WRIGHT BROTHERS' WOODEN PROPELLERS. TWO WERE USED TO PROPEL THE FIRST UNITED STATES MILITARY AEROPLANE, A 1909 WRIGHT. THE ORIGINAL WAS LOANED TO THE EARLY BIRDS BY THE SMITHSONIAN I [[image: photograph of the Early Bird Monument showing the cast of the Wright Brothers' propeller and the plaques described above.]] [[image below of the back of the monument]] [[black and white cutout, close up photographs of what appear to be of the cast metal plates on the back of the Early Bird Monument: a shield and a plaque with raised lettering as follows: Shield topped with the Early Bird logo: EARLY AVIATION HISTORY WAS MADE HERE WHEN THESE PIONEERS FLEW POWERED AIRCRAFT TO AND FROM THIS SITE BETWEEN 1909 -1916 [[two columns]] [[left column]] WILBUR WRIGHT GLENN CURTIS CHARLES K. HAMILTON HARRY N. ATWOOD HARRY M. JONES HARALD KATNER STEVE MACGORDON [[/left column]] [[right column]] LINCOLN BEACHY EUGENE ELY HUGH A. ROBINSON JAMES J. WARD ALBERT S. HEINRICH VICTOR CARLSTROM RAYNAL C. BOLLING RUTH B. LAW [[/right column]] [[/two columns]] FROM MAY 1916 TO MARCH 1917 MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNORS ISLAND TRAINING CORPS FLIGHT TRAINED HERE [[two columns]] [[left column]] CAPTAIN PHILIP A. CARROLL COMMANDING CHARLES REED WILLIAM A. LARNED FREDIERICK T. BLAKEMAN STEDMAN S. HANKS CORD MEYER CHARLES D WIMAN JAMES B. MILLER SETH LOOW [[/left column]] [[right column]] FILIP A. BJORKLUND INSTRUCTOR LAWRENC SPERRY HOBART A. H. BAKER AL STURTEVANT EDWIN M. POST, JR. WILLIAM WALTON ALBERT B. GAINES, JR. HOWARD G. LAPSLEY JOHN M. L. RUTHERFURD [[/right column]] [[two columns]] [[square plaque]] DEDICATED DECEMBER 17, 1954 BY THE EARLY BIRDS CLARENCE A. deGIERS, PRESIDENT MILITARY PARTICIPATION DIRECTED BY LT. GEN. WITHERS A. BURRESS COMMANDING GENERAL, FIRST ARMY COL. JOHN S ROOSMA DEPUTY POST COMMANDER GOVERNORS ISLAND, NEW YORK [[/square plaque]] [[/black and white cutout, close up photographs of what appear to be of the cast metal plates on the back of the Early Bird Monument]]