piece of aluminum with a few chips of red, white, and blue paint, matching the livery of Miss Doran. The final search for the missing aviators concluded later that month, as Jack Frost's brother Ezra followed up a theory the Golden Eagle may have crash landed on Mauna Loa. Aftermath In the days after the race, the disqualified owners of the Air King charged that race officials should have disqualified the Golden Eagle, because it also had only 350 gallons of fuel capacity when it took off. In a bitter conclusion, the father of the sponsor of the race, Rev. Charles F. Dole, died on November 27, 1927. Goebel and Davis returned on the Matson liner , with Woolaroc on board, to an impromptu parade in San Francisco, arriving on August 31. They doubted there would be any survivors of a sea ditching. For their winning flight, both Goebel (a Lieutenant in the Army Reserves) and Davis (active-duty Navy) were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1928. Jensen returned to San Pedro aboard City of Los Angeles on September 1 and immediately announced he would undertake a non-stop solo flight from Los Angeles to New York, carrying a lion. The lion, named Leo, was one of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio mascots; they took off on September 16 after the lion had raw steaks. However, the aircraft never arrived in New York; Jensen crash-landed on an Arizona mountain in heavy fog. Woolaroc has survived and is on display at the Woolaroc Museum in Oklahoma, which started as a hangar to store and display the plane. Aloha was sold to a New York businessman and destroyed in a 1933 hangar fire at Roosevelt Field. Both Woolaroc and Aloha were powered by the Wright Whirlwind, which added to that engine's endurance legend, as it had already been used in Spirit of St. Louis (Lindbergh), Columbia (Chamberlin/Levine), America (Byrd), Bird of Paradise (Maitland/Hegenberger), and City of Oakland (Smith/Bronte). Both Ernie Smith, pilot of the first civilian nonstop flight to Hawaii, and Ben Wyatt, navigation examiner for the Dole Air Race, criticized the race after its conclusion. Smith called it "stunt flying – not practical with land planes. And now there are six men and a girl out there somewhere battling for their lives. All for $35,000. It isn't worth it." Wyatt believed that "[no] scientific value can be derived from such flights [with land planes]."