Davis, navigator of Woolaroc, stated "We know now that flying is a practical means of transportation across the Pacific. All that is necessary is a popular demand for this speedy transportation." Just under one year later, Charles Kingsford Smith and the crew of the Fokker F.VII trimotor "Southern Cross" successfully flew a trans-Pacific route from Oakland to Australia via Hawaii and Fiji; Smith was carrying Alvin Eichwaldt's ring. The United States Navy set a record for flight time in a successful mass flight from California to Hawaii concluded in January 1934; later that year, Kingsford Smith became the first to fly east from Hawaii to California in November when he retraced his 1928 flight in reverse using "Lady Southern Cross", setting a new speed record in the process. In January 1935 Amelia Earhart completed the first solo flight from Hawaii to California. Pan American established a trans-Pacific route later that year during a series of flights, and began regular commercial "Clipper" flying boat service from San Francisco to Manila via Hawaii, Midway, Wake, and Guam in October 1936.