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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Ryan, Jason (Journalist), author.     Subjects     Dole Air Race (1927)     Transpacific flights -- History -- 20th century.     Aeronautics -- Hawaii -- History -- 20th century.     Airplane racing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Ryan, Jason (Journalist), author.       by title:      Race to Hawaii : the...         MARC Display

Race to Hawaii : the 1927 Dole Air Derby and the thrilling first flights that opened the Pacific / Jason Ryan. by Ryan, Jason (Journalist), author. Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press Incorporated, [2018] Subjects Dole Air Race (1927)   Transpacific flights -- History -- 20th century.   Aeronautics -- Hawaii -- History -- 20th century.   Airplane racing -- United States -- History -- 20th century. ISBN:  9780912777252 (hardcover) : 0912777257 (hardcover) Description:  xiv, 306 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Contents:  The Navy's PN-9 No. 1 -- The Army's Bird of Paradise -- The Dole Derby. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Today, a trip to Hawaii is a simple six-hour flight from the West Coast, but almost a century ago, it was a nerve-wracking, twenty-six-hour journey across 2,400 miles of the open Pacific. Race to Hawaii chronicles the thrilling first flights during the Golden Age of Aviation, a time when new airplanes traveled farther and faster but were also unreliable, fragile, and hampered by primitive air navigation equipment. The US Navy tried first, sending flying boats winging toward the islands. Next came Army Air Corps aviators and a civilian pilot, who informally raced each other to Hawaii in the weeks after Charles Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic to land the Spirit of St. Louis in Paris. Finally came the Dole Derby, an unprecedented 1927 air race in which eight planes set off at once across the Pacific, all eager to claim a cash prize offered by Pineapple King, James Dole. Military men, barnstormers, a schoolteacher, a Wall Street bond salesman, a Hollywood stunt flyer, and veteran World War aces all encountered every type of hazard during their perilous flights, from fuel shortages to failed engines, forced sea landings and severe fatigue to navigational errors. With so many pilots taking aim at the far-flung islands in so many different types of planes, everyone wondered who would reach Hawaii first, or at all"--Amazon.com.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Hawaiian & Pacific H 629.13091 Ry Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Hawaiian & Pacific H 629.13091 Ry Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library R -- Hawaiian & Pacific H 629.13091 Ry Non Circulating Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Hawaiian Nonfiction H 629.13091 Ryan Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library R -- Hawaiian Reference H 629.13091 Ryan Non Circulating Add Copy to MyList Kahuku P/S Library Hawaiian Nonfiction H 629.13091 Ry Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Hawaiian Nonfiction H 629.13091 Ry Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kalihi-Palama Public Library Hawaiian Nonfiction 629.130921 Ry Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Hawaiian Nonfiction H 629.13091 Ry Checked In Add Copy to MyList Library For The Blind and Print Disabled Acquisitions --- On Order   in Processing Add Copy to MyList More Results: 1 2 Next

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