A huge crowd of people (including a number of U.S. Army personnel in uniform) converges on the airfield at Honolulu, Hawaii, to witness the arrival of the Travel Air 5000 airplane, named "woolarc," winner of the Dole Derby trans-Pacific air race. The aircraft taxis across a wide swath of grass, assisted by men at each wing. A small airplane taxis behind it. An Army officer walks past the camera. Pilot Arthur C. Goebel and navigator, William V. Davis Jr. are seen next with Hawaiian Leis around their necks as they are surrounded by congratulatory well-wishers. They are closely escorted by an Army officer into a tent, where some children, including one boy with a bandage and patch over his left eye. Outdoors, Pilot Arthur Goebel receives more flower leis and poses for closeups. Next, the Breese-Wilde 5 Monoplane, NX914, "Aloha" is seen taxiing after arriving second in the race. an Army officer waves some spectators away from the taxiing aircraft. Navigator Paul Schluter waves from the rear cockpit. He and pilot, Martin Jensen, are next seen with leis around their necks. In the final sequence, winners Goebel and Davis are seen with second place aviators, Jensen and Schluter, flanking James D. Dole, who has just presented each pair their award checks.
View of entrance to the Officers' Club at Bolling Air Force Base, Washington, DC. Sign reads "Officers' Open Mess." Several retired officers in civilian clothes emerge following a luncheon meeting. Scenes of the club, including a staff car parking at the curb; several women exiting; closeup of sign at doorway; and uniformed officers entering. View of the main gate entrance, from on the base, with cars entering and leaving. Closeup of the sign, reading "United States Air Force, Bolling Air Force Base."
Canadian Bush pilot, Duke Schiller (in coat and tie) and cameraman Ray "Swede" Fernstrom, relaxing after return from Greenly Island in Quebec, Canada, where they had flown to assist the crew of the Junkers airplane "Bremen" that force-landed after completing a transatlantic flight. They relax with a drink. Fernstrom smokes a cigarette.
An American plane wins the safety prize in the Guggenheim Aircraft Corporation in New York. The plane in the field after winning. People cheer and applaud. A man talks to the owner of the winning plane. He gives him a check. Demonstration of the plane activities. The plane flies in the sky. The plane lands on the field.
World's greatest Fokker stands at the Teterboro airport in New Jersey. Men gather near the plane. They watch the plane. Men help to start the plane. They board the plane. It takes off.
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh flies the Curtiss Robin in United States. Plane stands on the field outside the hangar. Men gather near the plane. Colonel Lindbergh walks towards the plane. He talks to a man. Lindbergh and his companion wearing parachutes at front of Curtiss Falcon mail plane. Lindbergh seated in cockpit of the plane. The plane flies.
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