Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day, was the public holiday celebrated 72 years ago today on 8 May 1945.
Spring has Sprung but Are We Closer to a Summer Trek?
First of all, HUGE apologies for not adding more content to the Hawaii Clipper forum. Please know it is not at all for the lack of enthusiasm or time but more an effect of a lack of additional materials. We have had a few interesting finds in the past two months such as the Choy…
Son of Juan Trippe Passes Away
(Published in The New York Times on Feb. 5, 2017) “Charlie,” 81 years young, died peacefully but reluctantly at home in Westport Point, MA on January 29, 2017 in the company of his family. He was a perpetrator of wild schemes, energetic and hardworking, an enthusiastic family sailor, a lover of golf, skiing, and football,…
What exactly is Precipitation Static?
Recently a received a question that I thought I would know but as it turns out – I did not…
Weekly Clipper Clip #18: The Gold Nugget
Our last ‘Weekly Clipper Clip’ ends with Steven Murphy, Lead Investigator in the search for The Lost Clipper, who reminds us all that at the end of the day, it all comes down to helping the families of those lost souls to find their final resting place on U.S. soil. Steve Murphy worked in Miami…
Happy New Year from The Lost Clipper
From our house to yours across the miles and globe… Guy, Jeff, Javier, Steve, and our newest contributor, Rodney Mitchell… we send our very best to you and your families. We look forward to providing more information on our investigation in the coming year. We hope this will be the most productive and revealing…
Weekly Clipper Clip #17: Secrets
Does it all come down to secrets and lies? Is that the main reason the M-130 Hawaii Clipper was hijacked? Javier Pena, Lead Investigator, talks about what may have been the early seeds of World War II. Peña’s early work for the DEA came as the international cocaine trade had begun to explode. In 1988,…
Weekly Clipper Clip #16: An Expert’s Opinion
Dr. Vernon Grose, aviation expert and former NTSB member, tells his opinion simply and directly on what happened to The Lost Clipper. Per Wikipedia, Vernon Leslie Grose (born June 27, 1928) is an American author, professor, aerospace engineer, air disaster analyst, risk management expert, and former member of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). In…
Weekly Clipper Clip #15: The Parallels of Two Downed Planes
Javier Pena, Lead Investigator who helped take down Pablo Escobar, draws parallels between the bombing of Avianca Airline Flight 203 in 1989 and the loss of The Hawaii Clipper 50 years earlier in 1938.
Project RECOVER: A Quest to Locate and Repatriate Lost American Servicemen
In the same expression of hope and determination, the BentProp Project and Project RECOVER have interweaving common goals as The Search for the Lost Clipper to ultimately locate and help repatriate missing World War II Airmen. Project RECOVER is a public-private partnership to enlist 21st century science and technology combined with in-depth archival and…
Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
As the oil still seeps from the sunken hulk of the Battleship USS Arizona, also too does our thoughts and remembrances still linger of the day it was sunk – December 7th, 1941. For me, I take this moment to not only reflect on the sacrifices of the honorable men and women during World War II, and all…
Weekly Clipper Clip #14: The End of A Bygone Era
Investigator Stephen Murphy talks about the end of an innocent bygone era of early airlines giving way to skyjacking and criminal intent commonplace today.
The Lost Clipper - The mission to bring 15 forgotten Americans home 