Air travel to Hawaii is actually an amazing story of innovation, imagination, and tremendous courage as well as a great deal of tragedy.  Like most opportunities we have in our lives, it’s easy to take for granted the sacrifices that made them possible.  So, it’s a dark path that eventually opens up into the sunny skies to the land of Aloha, and involves an event you may never have heard of, but which I don’t think you’re going to forget. Today, we’re telling the story of the Dole Derby. Keep your seatbelts fastened.

REFERENCES:

Race to Hawaii

Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features

1903-The First Flight - Wright Brothers National Memorial (US National Park Service)

Great Adventure Stories : Rafer Brent : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming

Actual newsreel footage of the participants and some of the takeoffs:

[Dole Air Race, 1927] : Kinograms : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming

MUSIC:

Stacks, Elision 

Brenner, Falls

Nuclear Conception, Alice in Winter

Paths of Glory, Stephen Keech

Moonchild, Elision 

Color of Distance, Chelsea McGough 

Perfect Spades, Third Age 

See full show notes on mydarkpath.com 

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