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race, but he insisted on taking off to help search for the missing airplanes and their brave crews. With fuel tanks filled to more than 500 gallons of fuel, on Friday, August 19, the big Swallow monoplane took off not to search for lost airplanes, but for Honolulu and then on to Hong Kong.
After a successful takeoff run with the wind blowing straight down the runway, the Dallas Spirit began to wing its way west. During the next seven hours Eichwaldt made a series of position reports with the radio, stating that they were flying at various altitudes. A few minutes before 9 o’clock that night, while flying at 900 feet above the water:
“SOS ... belay that. We were in a spin but came out of it OK. We sure were scared. It was sure a close call. The lights on the instrument panel went out and it was so dark Bill could not see the wings.” Eleven minutes later another transmission was picked up by ships and shore stations: “We are in an...” 1
Davis (left) and Goebel were feted as heroes for a week after their flight, and more honors awaited them upon their return to the mainland. The Woolaroc was disassembled and shipped back to California.
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