The Tampa Tribune, August 6, 1982, page D5

DEATHS ELSEWHERE

Emory Bronte, an aviation pioneer who navigated the first civilian single-engine flight between Hawaii and the West Coast in 1927, died Sunday in Honolulu. He was 80. Bronte made the historic journey across the Pacific with Ernest L. Smith in the "City of Oakland." The flight from Oakland Airport took over 25 hours and after two abortive landing attempts and running out of gas, they pancaked into a grove of trees on the Island of Molokai.
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