1927 DOLE AIR RACE TO HAWAII


THE WINNING FLYERS OF THE DOLE AIR RACE


In Honolulu, Hawaii, on Wednesday, August 17th and Friday, August 19th.



The Woolaroc and the Aloha, together, in Hawaii, on August 17th!

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.

Goebel and Lieutenant Davis at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, after the air race, on August 17th.

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.

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.

A vintage post card of The Royal Hawaiian Hotel, the site of the award ceremony for the winning Dole Air Race flyers!

A 1931 air mail cover, commemorating the dedication of Floyd Bennett Field, in New York, that is signed by Arthur Goebel.

 A closeup of his signature, on the air mail cover on the left.

Arthur Goebel in the cockpit of an airplane that he flew in another air race!
 

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.


LINKS

DOLE AIR RACE - 1927
2002 FOURTH ANNUAL GREAT HAWAIIAN AIR RACE



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