"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,"
Jet airliners revolutionized travel to Hawaii by making flights dramatically easier, faster and cheaper, catalyzing mass tourism after the 1959 Boeing 707 arrivals. Prior to jets, Hawaii attracted travelers despite lengthy ocean voyages and the limited range of early aircraft, which only reached transpacific capability in 1927. The disappearance of crews in the Dole Air Race highlighted the risks of early transoceanic flight. Pan American, founded in 1927, used Clipper flying boats with water landings to create passenger routes across the Pacific. Juan Trippe shifted Pan Am's plans from Europe to the Pacific, placing Honolulu and stops like Midway on the route to Hong Kong.
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