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Pabco Flyer, getting ready for take-off from Bay Farm Island, Alameda, California, one of eight planes taking off in the ill-fated Dole Air Flight Derby to Hawaii, August 17, 1927. Only two planes made it to Honolulu. The Pabco Flyer, a Breese-Wilde Monoplane, NX646, flown alone by Livingston Gilson Irving, crashed twice on take off. Others crashed, or were lost at sea.
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