The City of Peoria.
These airplanes were given flight positions, but they did not fly in the air race.
CITY
OF PEORIA
BLUEBIRD
PRIDE
OF LOS ANGELES
ROBERT
FOWLER
MISS
HOLLYDALE
SPIRIT
OF JOHN RODGERS
ANGEL
OF LOS ANGELES
FLIGHT POSITION: 3.
PILOT:
Charles Parkhurst.
NAVIGATOR:
Ralph C. Lowes, Jr.
SPONSOR:
This airplane was sponsored by the National Airways System and it was designed
by Heraclin Alfaro with G.H. Hutson.
AIRCRAFT:
National
Airways Air King biplane.
COLOR:
White with a blue nose and blue stripe on top of the fuselage.
ENGINE:
220-horsepower Wright Whirlwind J-5 engine.
MAXIMUM
SPEED: 90 mph.
FUEL CAPACITY:
368 gallons.
WINGSPAN:
61 feet 6 inches.
REGISTRATION:
X3070.
RACE RESULTS: This airplane was disqualified 25 minutes before the race, because of insufficient fuel tanks. A formal protest was lodged, after the air race, claiming that the Golden Eagle was allowed to fly, even though it carried 18 gallons less fuel than the City of Peoria, if fuel consumpution were calculated at 13 gallons per hour with a crusing speed of 90 mph, for a total of 345 gallons. The airplane was later entered in the 1927 New York to Spokane, Washington air race, on September 20th, by Steve Lacey and L.A. Yancey, but it was damaged on its takeoff attempt. Its engine was later used in the Air King Mono Four.
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FLIGHT POSITION: 6.
PILOT: Captain Frederick A. Giles, from the United Kingdom.
AIRCRAFT:
Hess H-2 Bluebird biplane. Some sources report this aircraft was being
named the Detroit Messenger or the Miss Wanda, but the official
program for the Dole air race, the Dole Trans-Pacific Flight, published
by the Oakland Chapter of the National Aeronautic Association and dated
August 12, 1927, lists it as being named the Bluebird.
ENGINE:
Wright Whirlwind J-5 engine.
FUEL CAPACITY:
500 gallons.
REGISTRATION:
X1445.
RACE RESULTS: This entry was withdrawn, before the start of the air race. The airplane was flown to Oakland, a few days after the air race, by Captain Frederick Giles, who used it for an attempted transpacific flight, in November 1927, but returned to San Francisco, after few hours.
FLIGHT POSITION: 8.
PILOT:
Captain James L. Giffin.
NAVIGATOR:
Theodore S. Lundgren.
SPONSOR:
This
airplane was sponsored by Edmund "Hoot" Richard Gibson, an actor from Hollywood,
California, who starred in Western films for Universal Pictures in the
1920's. His nickname comes from his hunting owls, as a boy, and he made
about 200 silent films and about 75 sound films.
AIRCRAFT:
International F-10 triplane.
COLOR:
Black with a picture of Edmund Gibson on the fuselage.
ENGINE:
Two 220-horsepower Wright Whirlwind J-5 engines.
FUEL CAPACITY:Extra
fuel tanks installed.
WINGSPAN:
45 feet.
RACE RESULTS: This airplane crashed into Oakland Bay, in about 3 feet of water, on August 11th, while attempting to land at Oakland, during a flight from Long Beach, California. All the crewmembers survived the crash, but the airplane was destroyed.
FLIGHT POSITION: 10.
PILOT: Robert Grant Fowler, who had made a 49-day transcontinental flight across the United States of America, from Santa Monica, California to Miami, Florida, in 1911.
AIRCRAFT: Robert Fowler was unable to obtain a suitable airplane for the air race.
RACE RESULTS: This entry was withdrawn, before the start of the air race.
FLIGHT POSITION 12.
PILOT:
Frank Clark, a Hollywood stuntpilot.
NAVIGATOR:
Jeff Warren.
SPONSOR:
C.E. Charlie Babb and E.A. Parkford of Los Angeles, California.
AIRCRAFT:
International
F-18 Air Coach biplane. The name of the airplane was a contraction of "Hollywood"
and "Glendale", the hometowns of Frank Clark and Jeff Warren.
COLOR:
Black fuselage with orange wings and tail.
ENGINE:
180-horsepower Hisso engine.
MAXIMUM
SPEED: 130 mph.
FUEL CAPACITY:400
gallons.
WINGSPAN:
35 feet.
LENGTH:
24 feet 6 inches.
HEIGHT:
9 feet 6 inches.
REGISTRATION:
NX912.
RACE RESULTS: This entry was withdrawn, before the start of the air race.
The Miss Hollydale. |
FLIGHT POSITION: 13.
PILOT:
Lieutenant George D. Covell, age 28.
NAVIGATOR:
Lieutenant Richard S. Waggener.
SPONSOR:
This airplane was sponsored by W.D. Tremaine, Fred W. Burgh, of Honolulu,
and Dr. Claude Burson.
AIRCRAFT:
Tremaine
Humming Bird monoplane that was designed by Austrian Fred Thaheld.
ENGINE:
225-horsepower Wright Whirlwind J-5 engine.
FUEL CAPACITY:
645 gallons.
WINGSPAN: 48
feet.
LENGTH: 29 feet.
RACE RESULTS: This airplane crashed into a cliff at Point Loma, in foggy weather, on August 10th, 15 minutes into its flight from San Diego to Oakland and both crewmembers were killed. The poor forward vision of the aircraft, due to its forward fuel tank location in the cabin, may have contributed to the crash.
FLIGHT POSITION: 14.
PILOT:
Captain
Arthur Rogers.
SPONSOR:
This airplane was sponsored by Leland A. Bryant of Los Angeles, California.
AIRCRAFT:
Bryant
M-1 monoplane.
ENGINE:
Two 120-horsepower Bristol Lucifer engines.
FUEL CAPACITY:
408 gallons.
WINGSPAN:
45 feet.
LENGTH:
30 feet.
REGISTRATION:
X705.
RACE RESULTS: This airplane stalled on takeoff and crashed, on its flight to Oakland, from the Western Air Express Field, in Montebello, California, on August 12th, and the pilot was killed, while attempting to parachute out.