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Bronte, Emory
1917
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Map (nautical navigational chart), "Hawaii Islands, Eastern Part, No. 4102," U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (Washington, D.C.), August 1917; used by Ernest Smith and Emory Bronte on the first civilian transpacific flight from California to Hawaii in their Travel Air Model 5000 City of Oakland. Typed note at center: "NAVIGATION CHART of HAWAIIAN ISLANDS showing compass bearings taken by Navigator Emory B. Bronte as airplane City of Oakland was on final approach on flight from Oaklnd, California, July 15, 1927. The plane landed out of gasoline in a grove of Kiawe trees at Kamalo, Molokai after 25 hours 02 minutes in the air."
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Ernest Smith/Emory Bronte Flight Scrapbook, NASM.XXXX.0389, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
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