Arthur C. Goebel

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Arthur Goebel with an airplane (1927)

Arthur Cornelius Goebel, Jr. (also Art Goebel ; born October 19, 1895 in Belen , New Mexico , † December 3, 1973 in Los Angeles ) was an American aviation pioneer, aerobatic pilot and film actor . From August 16-17, 1927, he achieved one of the first non-stop flights from the American continent to Hawaii by winning the Dole Air Race .

Life

Arthur C. Goebel served as a member of the Allied ground forces in Europe during the First World War . After the war, he trained as a pilot at a flight school in Los Angeles. In the years to come, he made a living as an aerobatic pilot and aerial acrobat, took part in flight races, gave flight lessons and transported passengers. At the beginning of the 1920s he went to Peru for 14 months and ran a flight school in Lima . Further stays in South America followed in 1924 and 1926. After his success in the Dole Air Race in 1927, he continued to take part in flight competitions. In 1928, for example, he made the first non-stop crossing of the USA from West (Los Angeles) to East ( Long Island ).

Between 1927 and 1932 he also worked as an actor and stuntman in film productions at Universal Studios and others.

During World War II he served in the rank of Colonel in the Reserve and flew missions in the Pacific region.

Arthur C. Goebel was married to Ann Jergens from 1941 to 1947. He died in Los Angeles in 1973.

Dole Air Race

Front page of the San Francisco Chronicle dated August 18, 1927

Inspired by Charles Lindbergh's first successful solo crossing of the Atlantic , the pineapple magnate James Dole offered an award for the first non-stop flight from Oakland to Honolulu in Hawaii in 1927 . The resulting very lossy competition went down in flight history as the Dole Air Race . Arthur Goebel took part in the competition with his navigator William V. Davis. His aircraft was the Woolaroc , a modified Travel Air 5000 , a single-engine monoplane . After a flight time of 26 hours and 17 minutes, they were the first to cover the 3870 kilometers and won the suspended sum of 25,000 US dollars .

Museum reception

The Woolaroc flown by Arthur Goebel in the Dole Air Race can be viewed today at the Woolaroc Museum and Wildlife Preserve in Bartlesville , Oklahoma .

Web links

Commons : Arthur C. Goebel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arthur C. Goebel in historynet. Accessed December 25, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Arthur C. Goebel in earlyaviators. Accessed December 25, 2018 .
  3. ^ Woolaroc Museum. Retrieved January 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Goebel, Arthur C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goebel, Art; Goebel, Arthur Cornelius junior (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American aviation pioneer and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Belen
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 1973
Place of death los Angeles