{"id":7743940,"date":"2026-07-29T13:12:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T11:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/dole-air-race-1927-deadly-derby\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T13:13:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T11:13:36","slug":"dole-air-race-1927-deadly-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/dole-air-race-1927-deadly-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"The Air Race to Hawaii That Killed Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n\r\n<p>In the summer of 1927, a Hawaiian pineapple magnate offered a fortune to the first aviators who could fly from California to Honolulu &mdash; 2,400 miles across the open Pacific. Fifteen crews signed up, tens of thousands of spectators came to watch, and the newspapers billed it as a glorious sprint into the future. It became a bloodbath.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Before the Dole Air Race was over, ten people were dead and six aircraft destroyed. It stands as one of the deadliest publicity stunts in the history of flight.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;border-radius:8px;padding:20px;margin:24px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:18px\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:20px;line-height:1.8\"><li><strong>Event:<\/strong> the Dole Air Race (&ldquo;Dole Derby&rdquo;), August 1927<\/li><li><strong>Route:<\/strong> Oakland, California to Honolulu, Hawaii (~2,400 miles)<\/li><li><strong>Prize:<\/strong> $25,000 for first, $10,000 for second, put up by James Dole<\/li><li><strong>Winner:<\/strong> <em>Woolaroc<\/em> (Art Goebel and Lt. William Davis), just over 26 hours<\/li><li><strong>Toll:<\/strong> ten lives lost and six aircraft destroyed<\/li><li><strong>Vanished:<\/strong> <em>Golden Eagle<\/em> and <em>Miss Doran<\/em>, never found<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A prize born of Lindbergh fever<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Just weeks after Charles Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic, the pineapple king James Dole announced a race that would do for the Pacific what Lindbergh had done for the Atlantic: a dash from Oakland to Honolulu, with $25,000 waiting for the winner. Caught up in the excitement, aviators scrambled to enter, many of them in hastily-built, underpowered aircraft with pilots and navigators of wildly varying experience.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vo6Cr0yT-mQ\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic\">The story of the ill-fated 1927 Dole Derby.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Death before the start<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The killing began before the race did. Three aircraft crashed while preparing, taking three lives. When race day came on 16 August 1927, eight machines lined up at Oakland before a vast crowd &mdash; and the carnage continued. Two planes crashed on take-off, and three more, including the little red, white and blue <em>Miss Doran<\/em>, sputtered back with engine trouble.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=1071343486  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/miss-doran-buhl-ca5-dole-race.jpg\" alt=\"The Buhl CA-5 Miss Doran\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The Buhl CA-5 Air Sedan <em>Miss Doran<\/em>, which took off into the Pacific and was never seen again. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p>Aboard <em>Miss Doran<\/em> was the one person who drew more attention than any pilot: Mildred Doran, a 22-year-old schoolteacher from Flint, Michigan, and the only woman in the race. Warned that a woman had no place on so dangerous a flight, she waved the objection away.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;Life is nothing but a chance.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Mildred Doran<\/strong> &mdash; schoolteacher and Dole Race passenger, to the Flint Journal<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6xwTp09mHOk\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic\">Period newsreel footage of the 1927 Dole Air Race.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Lost over the Pacific<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Four aircraft finally set out over the ocean. Two of them made it. Art Goebel&rsquo;s <em>Woolaroc<\/em> reached Honolulu in just over 26 hours to take the prize, with Martin Jensen&rsquo;s <em>Aloha<\/em> close behind. The other two &mdash; <em>Golden Eagle<\/em> and <em>Miss Doran<\/em> &mdash; simply vanished into the Pacific. And when a search aircraft, the <em>Dallas Spirit<\/em>, set out to look for them, it too disappeared, taking two more men.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=1958496365  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/mildred-doran-dole-race-1927.jpg\" alt=\"Mildred Doran\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Mildred Doran, the young schoolteacher whose name her aircraft bore &mdash; and who was lost with it. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p>The U.S. Navy searched for days and found nothing. In Flint, factories shut down and flags flew at half-mast; Mildred&rsquo;s fifth-grade class set flowers adrift on the sea.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;When the spark has passed from the bodies of all who read these lines, admirers of valor and of noble spirit will be celebrating the name of Mildred Doran.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>The Boston Daily Advertiser<\/strong> &mdash; in tribute to Mildred Doran, 1927<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/48vLjzztgyc\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic\">The reckless glamour of golden-age air racing that the Dole Derby embodied.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The reckoning<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Ten dead and six aircraft lost for a pineapple company&rsquo;s publicity stunt: the Dole Derby horrified the public and shamed the aviation world into taking long-distance flying &mdash; and the vetting of its crews &mdash; far more seriously. The great ocean races of the era were exhilarating, but they were paid for in lives.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The winning <em>Woolaroc<\/em> survives to this day, preserved at the Woolaroc Museum in Oklahoma &mdash; a rare happy relic of a race that most of its entrants did not survive.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><em>Sources: Dole Air Race (Wikipedia); Richard A. Durose, &ldquo;Above &amp; Beyond: Aunt Mildred,&rdquo; Smithsonian Air &amp; Space; HistoryNet; This Day in Aviation.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Related Posts<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/roscoe-turner-air-racer-gilmore-lion\/\">The Air Racer Who Flew With a Pet Lion<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/schneider-trophy-supermarine-s6b-spitfire-merlin\/\">The Air Race That Built the Spitfire<\/a><\/p><\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the summer of 1927, a Hawaiian pineapple magnate offered a fortune to the first aviators who could fly from California to Honolulu &mdash; 2,400 miles across the open Pacific. 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