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Title: 7th to take off ... and "The Winner!!"
Date Created and/or Issued: 1927
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Shows the monoplane, Woolaroc, in the air above Oakland airport runway. Caption beneath image reads: Plane, Travel Air; Entered by, Frank Phillips; Pilot, Arthur Goebel; Navigator, William V. Davis, Jr. (Navy); Wing spread, 51 ft; Gas capacity, 425; August 16th, 1927.
2009-0514.
James D. Dole put up prize money for first planes to cross from the mainland to Honolulu. On Aug. 26th, 1927, eight planes (Dolebirds) left Oakland for what became the Dole Air Race – Golden Eagle, Aloha, Woolaroc, Miss Doran, Oklahoma, Dallas Spirit, El Encanto, Pabco Flyer.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; 9 7/8 x 7 5/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001414016CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Dole Air Race--Photographs
Airplane racing--California--Oakland
Monoplanes--California--Oakland
Airports--California--Oakland
Oakland (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photograph albums
Place: California
Oakland
Oakland (Calif.)

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