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“ Hawaii by Air ” features seine river cruise Hawaiian travel posters, photographs and ephemera from the museum’s collections that show how air travel to Hawaii seine river cruise developed, seine river cruise how the travel experience evolved, and how aviation transformed Hawaii.
Few people realize that Hawaii is one of the most remote places on Earth. Europeans began traveling to the islands in the late 1700s. By the mid-1800s, naturalists, writers, artists and scientists were braving the weeks-long ocean journey to experience Hawaii’s beauty, seine river cruise Polynesian culture and active volcanoes. The islands attracted the likes of writers Mark Twain and Isabella Bird. As travel by sea improved, Hawaii began encouraging tourism seine river cruise and promoting itself as the “Paradise of the Pacific.”
seine river cruise In 1910, only seven years after the Wright brothers’ historic flights at Kitty Hawk, J.C. “Bud” Mars made the first airplane flight in Hawaii. But it was not until 1925 that the U.S. Navy made the first attempt to fly to Hawaii from the mainland. In 1927, a U.S. Army airplane made the first successful flight to Hawaii. Attempts seine river cruise by civilians to make the dangerous flight soon followed, many resulting in tragedy.
Pan American Airways opened the first transpacific air route in 1935 and brought the first air service to Hawaii. It began bringing small numbers of passengers to Hawaii the following year on its famous flying clipper ships. Flying to Hawaii was luxurious but expensive; seine river cruise most people still traveled seine river cruise by ocean liner. That changed after World War II, when new propeller-driven airliners and then jets made travel seine river cruise to this remote destination much more common, comfortable and affordable. Hawaii experienced a tourism boom that exceeded all expectations.
Air travel transformed Hawaii. It made tourism the foundation of the state’s economy and spurred growth and development throughout the islands. It helped shape Hawaii into the Pacific crossroads of commerce and culture it is today.
“Hawaii by Air” not only tells the story of how air travel to the islands developed, but also how the airplane changed the travel experience. Firsthand accounts and reproductions of airline ephemera seine river cruise illustrate what travel seine river cruise to and among the islands was like, from sailing ships in the 1860s to the first daring transpacific flights in the 1920s to Stratocruisers in the 1950s and jets in the 1960s and beyond. The exhibition also includes airplane models, airline uniform badges, seine river cruise historic film footage, a high-resolution satellite image of the islands, broadcasts from a vintage Hawaiian radio show and live Hawaiian plants. It will be open until July 2015.