On 11 January 1935, Amelia Earhart became the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California. Earhart took off from Wheeler Field in Honolulu Hawaii and landed in Oakland California the very next day.

Earhart’s flight from Hawaii was one of her later projects before her disappearance in 1937 over the Pacific Ocean. In 1932, she became the second person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean after Charles Lindbergh. She also flew across the United States in a time which was then a female record.

Since this flight was so risky, Earhart had taken precautions. She had her plane’s passenger seat removed and had it replaced with extra fuel tanks. She also had then become the first civilian pilot to use a two way radio, which she had installed. As she flew her way to Oakland, she had playing a broadcasted symphony concert for most of her trip. During the last three hours of her flight, no one had received any radio contact with her. Finally, when she had landed at Oakland Airport in Oakland, on January 12, a crowd of thousands were there to greet her with flowers and waiting to shake her hand.

With Amelia’s achievements in mind, the 1930s have good reason for the being known as the “Golden Age of Flight”. Today, traveling by air is the most common way of travel. In the 1930’s traveling by sea or railway was the common form. The planes of that decade were smaller, not capable of high altitudes and light, making them poor for stronger weather conditions, the opposite of the modern aircraft. Today airplanes of all sizes are built with more stability.

Over time, devices and protocols were put in place to make flights safer and more advanced. Some things enacted for these changes were wheel bearings; retract speed brakes, broadcast towers and high frequency radar. Not in place during Earhart’s flight from Hawaii to Oakland California. Changing aviation for the better.
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Meet the Author: Julianne Ayers

I am currently a sophomore at Schoolcraft College. I am set to graduate in the spring and plan on transferring to Eastern Michigan University in the fall of 2013 to pursue a degree in Secondary Education. I am on Schoolcraft’s Women’s Bowling Team and I enjoy reading, sewing, playing my cello and singing.