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>There’s a good reason the legendary opening theme of the original “Hawaii Five-O” features a jet airplane flying overhead. More than anything else, the jet age brought mass tourism to the Islands. From the moment the first Boeing 707 from the continental U.S. screamed over Diamond Head in 1959, jet airliners made getting to Hawaii dramatically easier, faster and cheaper than ever before.
Hawaii, though, had long lured people willing to make the trip, even when a weeklong voyage on one of Matson’s ocean liners was the only ticket. The technology for long-distance navigation by air was still in its infancy: Through the mid-1920s, no aircraft had the range to make the 2,400-mile trip from San Francisco to Hawaii. And even when the daunting transpacific gap was finally bridged in June 1927 with a 26-hour nonstop flight from Oakland, the disappearance of three air crews participating in the Dole Air Race two months later was a stark reminder that flying to the Islands remained a staunchly risky endeavor.
Archive: https://archive.today/fMJnt
From the post:
>>There’s a good reason the legendary opening theme of the original “Hawaii Five-O” features a jet airplane flying overhead. More than anything else, the jet age brought mass tourism to the Islands. From the moment the first Boeing 707 from the continental U.S. screamed over Diamond Head in 1959, jet airliners made getting to Hawaii dramatically easier, faster and cheaper than ever before.
Hawaii, though, had long lured people willing to make the trip, even when a weeklong voyage on one of Matson’s ocean liners was the only ticket. The technology for long-distance navigation by air was still in its infancy: Through the mid-1920s, no aircraft had the range to make the 2,400-mile trip from San Francisco to Hawaii. And even when the daunting transpacific gap was finally bridged in June 1927 with a 26-hour nonstop flight from Oakland, the disappearance of three air crews participating in the Dole Air Race two months later was a stark reminder that flying to the Islands remained a staunchly risky endeavor.
