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02832aam a22003978i 4500 001 B274E8F09A0711E8AE30EB3197128E48 003 SILO 005 20230120011731 008 171205s2018 ilu b 000 0 eng 010 $a 2017057554 020 $a 0912777257 (cloth) 020 $a 9780912777252 (cloth) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d DLC $d SKYRV $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-hi $a n-us-hi 100 1 $a Ryan, Jason $c (Journalist), $e author. 245 10 $a Race to Hawaii : $b the 1927 Dole Air Derby and the thrilling first flights that opened the Pacific / $c Jason Ryan. 263 $a 1808 264 1 $a Chicago, Illinois : $b Chicago Review Press Incorporated, $c [2018] 300 $a 306 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a The Navy's PN-9 No. 1 -- The Army's Bird of Paradise -- The Dole Derby. 520 $a 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 and 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. 611 20 $a Dole Air Race $d (1927) 650 0 $a Transpacific flights $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Aeronautics $z Hawaii $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Airplane racing $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 941 $a 7 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240710041959.0 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417014639.0 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20220518022644.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722060215.0 952 $l GUPF501 $d 20190416011315.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006120431.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20180815010101.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B274E8F09A0711E8AE30EB3197128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search