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Ferry tanks!Boeing delivered 717’s to Hawaii this way, others just land and fuel with carefully laid out flight plans to get where they need to be. Edit: these are 250 gallon tanks, so an extra 6,800 lbs of Jet A for the flight.

Today, the “Paradise” label is essentially a marketing term. Every island has increasingly smaller patches of natural paradise — if a deafening tourist helicopter isn’t flying overhead. Sadly, most of the “Paradise” areas are manufactured resort properties.I’m part Hawaiian. I love my homeland, maybe too much. I’m 4th generation, I have relatives on every island. Hawaii has changed dramatically from my childhood in Ewa Beach. Sadly, the change hasn’t been positive on any level.1. Hawaii is one of the most remote locales on earth. It’s expensive to do anything, especially live there...2. Hawaii has a long history of poor governance. The state government is large, bureaucratic, and self-preserving. They seem to ignore, or fumble, one pressing problem after the next. Raising taxes is the consistent solution from the Honolulu brain-thrust. By any measure, Hawaii is a poor state with a high cost-of-living and high overall tax burden. The hidden taxes/fees paid by tourists increase almost yearly - it’s surely unsustainable. Asian tourists have cheaper alternatives closer to home. Hawaii could eventually price itself out of that critical market. Many residents, paying high taxes with very limited career opportunities, eventually decide to leave when we see no return on investment. Hawaii is near the bottom in the USA in the quality of infrastructure and business-friendly climate, and near the top in overall tax-burden and cost of living — a bad combination. One party rule is never good (left or right). Hawaii is a glaring example of governance with only token opposition. Lacking constructive political debate resulted in the extremely expensive, very poorly planned, Honolulu rail project. It is already projected to have zero impact on Honolulu’s gridlock traffic. There are no plans for it to go to Waikiki, so most tourists will not use it. Out of desperation in 2017, Hawaii decided to tax residents on the outer islands for a rail project they will rarely ride. In 2019, the Mayor of Honolulu announced three new taxes to pay for “annual maintenance” of the still unfinished, massively over-budget rail project. It will only affect Oahu residents for now, but I’m sure the outer islands will be hit-up again. What’s the Hawaiian word for Boondoggle? Kapakahi?3. The enormous growth in tourism is making living conditions very difficult for residents. Tourists, who are transient, have more economic and political clout than residents. Unions, and the industries supported by tourism, lobby the Gov’t extensively. They are the dominate force in Hawaiian elections. The Gov’t hails the increase in airline flights and cruise ship visits, it doesn’t hail the same two-lane roads around most islands. With increased buses and rental cars, gridlock in paradise is an everyday occurrence. The HUGE increase in deafening helicopters flying over our homes, schools, parks, beaches from dawn to dusk 365 days a year was THE last straw for us. Christmas Eve 2017 with my extended family visiting, I had 44 helicopters fly over my house in six hours. You must stop talking when this happens, no one can hear you. The dramatic increase in flights since that time has turned Hilo into Helo. In 2018, we looked at each other and agreed there is no point in staying here. The Big Island now leads the nation in helicopter overflights, about 15,000/yr. — more than twice the Grand Canyon! The tourist helicopters in Hawaii routinely fly low over residential areas, parks, beaches, not remote canyon wilderness as in Arizona. Each flight passes over residential areas in both directions, so double the amount to 30,000/yr. They are allowed to fly dawn to dusk, 365 days/yr., unless poor weather inhibits visual flight rules. I’ve witnessed many flights in heavy rain, with skies barely clear enough to safely fly. We came to relish Hilo’s big rain storms, as they brought with them silence. Heavily lobbied by the Helicopter Association International, the FAA, without ANY regard to noise pollution, allows helicopters to overfly almost any part of any island at +-1500’ AGL (typically less). You can hear helicopters while inside Walmart, Home Depot, Safeway, and even underwater while snorkeling! Chirping birds to 70+dB helicopters back to birds — 30-40-50 times a day is extremely unpleasant, and proven unhealthy by many studies including Hawaii’s own Dept. of Health! It concluded in 1991 that more than 4 helicopters a day was psychologically unhealthy. I typically get 4+ an hour. What has been done since this study in 1991, with 10x more flights? Absolutely nothing… http://web.eng.hawaii.edu/~panos/heli.htm. Helicopter noise pollution is a problem nation wide, the FAA has been successfully lobbied to ignore the issue. For National Parks, Helicopter Tours Are a Noisy ProblemCambridge Helicopter Noise Review — Helicopter Noise — Community group launches campaign to reduce helicopter noise — Helicopters - Noise Free America: A Coalition to Promote Quiet —4. The Hawaii State Gov’t has yet to make a serious, sustained effort to protected the islands from the invasion of non-native plants and animals. There are 100’s of introduced junk trees & aggressive vines that spread very quickly, overtaking entire valleys and canyons in a few decades. Nothing is done. You’ll often see suffocating vines entomb 50′ mango trees. On the Hamakua Coast on the Big Island, entire valleys full of native plants, trees, palms are completely covered by ugly vines. Hawaii does try very hard to keep snakes from establishing a foothold, terrified by the Brown Tree Snake invasion of Guam which changed that island forever, killing over 80% of the birds.Guam's Plague of Snakes Is Devastating The Whole Island Ecosystem, Even The TreesIntroduced aggressive birds are crowding-out native birds. Most of the pretty colored birds you see are non-native. The deafening, all-night croaking, Coqui frogs could have been eradicated at the initial infestation in Hilo, but incompetent Gov’t officials hesitated. They’re on every island now. A newly discovered problem in Hawaii is cesspools & septic tanks. Allowed to flourish w/o much oversight for a half a century, they are fouling some beaches on every island, especially after a storm. It’s common knowledge for locals to only swim during high, incoming tides at certain beaches. Few rural coastal and up-slope communities have sewer systems. Since much of the ground is essential lava rock, a remedy is difficult. The Hawaiian Gov’t is trying to ban certain kinds of sunscreen, which can harm coral. It is admirable and necessary. The bacteria count in that same water from leaky cesspools and septic tanks is not addressed.5. Oahu, my birthplace, is becoming unlivable. Gridlock traffic impacts all-aspects of life, 7 days a week. The pleasant weekend drive around the island of yesteryear is still primarily a 2 lane road from Hawaii Kai to Haleiwa. It’s often bumper-to-bumper for miles. All roads and freeways during pau hana time (after work), are crammed to the limit. On/off ramps are backed up. Maui has become a paradise theme-park, I don’t recognize it anymore. It seems every locale on the island has lost its charm. It’s a classic example of remanufactured paradise for transient consumption. Even way out in Hana, small high-end hotels and shops are now in the center of this once sleepy town. Kauai is headed in the same direction, but locals are trying desperately to enact some controls. Traffic can be awful around Lihue, with clogged two-lane roads in each direction out of town. The 4000 sq. mi. Big Island, by far my favorite island, is so large, it will always have quiet niches uneconomical for development, for helicopters to overfly — if you’re willing to live in remote areas like Honokaa, Hawi, or Naalehu. The traffic from Capitan Cook to Kona to Waikoloa to Waimea gets worse every year.6. A friend recently returned from a hike on the Na Pali Coast trail on Kauai. It’s one of the most spectacularly beautiful areas on the planet. It’s breathtaking and protected — except from the air. He said in the early afternoon, there were tourist helicopters every 2 minutes. Going from chirping birds and crashing waves to 70+db helicopers echoing through the canyons, it was impossible to enjoy. He was stunned, later furious such noise pollution is allowed in “protected wilderness". Helicopters Endlessly Shatter The Quiet Of A Kauai CanyonI hated to tell him it’s allowed every day, on every island, with very few restrictions. Even at 10,000’ on the Mauna Loa Access Road (where it is normally virtually silent), there’s a steady stream of Blue Hawaiian helicopters flying from the Waikoloa Resort Heliport to Volcano National Park about every 20 min. There’s nowhere to hide…In short, Hawaii is quickly becoming paradise lost in a very real sense. Can it be saved? Yes, but it will take tremendous political courage, which is nowhere in sight. Adequate resources and decades of commitment is the only solution. New Zealand’s unprecedented efforts to preserve their island’s native plants, animals and environment sets the standard for any island’s preservation. New Zealand’s #1 industry is tourism, just like Hawaii. They are proving conservation efforts can be an asset, setting the standard Hawaii must follow…https://www.stuff.co.nz/environm...https://media.newzealand.com/en/...

I suggest you watch the 1950’s movie “ Go for Broke” which covers the raising, training and operations of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. It includes the rescue of the Texans in some detail.I enjoyed the film especially when it revealed the 442nd (Little men of Iron) is the most highly decorated combat unit in US army history, which must put a hell of a dent in the US white supremacy belief.