The Woolaroc and the Aloha, together, in Hawaii, on
August 17th!
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Navigator
Lieutenant William V. Davis Jr. and pilot Arthur C. Goebel, of the Woolaroc,
at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, in Waikiki, Hawaii, just after they won the
Dole Air Race, on Wednesday, August 17th.
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Goebel and Lieutenant Davis at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, after the
air race, on August 17th.
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The award
ceremony at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel on Friday, August 19th, where the
winning Dole flyers received their prize money. Seated, from left to right,
is navigator Lieutenant William Davis Jr. and pilot Arthur Goebel of the
Woolarco,
the winners of the $25,000 first prize, James Drummond Dole, of the Dole
Hawaiian Pineapple Company, and pilot Martin Jensen and navigator Captain
Paul Schluter of the Aloha, the winners of the $10,000 second prize.
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Arthur
Goebel, pilot of the Woolarco, who is shown behind the table and
on the left, celebrating the $25,000 check that he was awarded by James
Dole, of the Dole Hawaiian Pineapple Company, who is shown behind the table
and on the right, at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel on August 19th. Lieutenant
William V. Davis Jr., navigator of the Woolaroc, is shown to the
left of Arthur Goebel and Captain Paul Schluter, navigator of the
Aloha,
is shown to the right of James D. Dole.
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A vintage
post card of The Royal Hawaiian Hotel, the site of the award ceremony for
the winning Dole Air Race flyers!
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A 1931
air mail cover, commemorating the dedication of Floyd Bennett Field, in
New York, that is signed by Arthur Goebel.
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A
closeup of his signature, on the air mail cover on the left.
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Arthur
Goebel in the cockpit of an airplane that he flew in another air race!
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ARTHUR
C. GOEBEL
SOURCES
Lesley Forden,
Glory
Gamblers, Ballantine Books, New York, 1961.
Lesley
Forden, Glory Gamblers: The Story of the Dole Race, The Nottingham
Press, Alameda, 1986.
Robert
Scheppler, Pacific Air Race, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington,
1988.
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