Sometimes I’m asked why searching for the Hawaii Clipper is still relevant. My answer usually depends on who asks the question because it may have come from curiosity, indifference or even hostility. More often than not, it comes as fascination because in an age where Hollywood is remaking remakes of remakes – there seems to…
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What Happened on our most recent trip to Truk?
Update on new final chapter of the Hawaii Clipper saga
We Just Hit 200!
Hi everyone! PLEASE consider visiting this link and clicking the vote tab to help spread the word for our Lost Clipper effort. Your vote counts and we are almost to the finishing line! http://platform.votigo.com/fbcontests/profiletab/2018-Annual-Calendar-Photo-Contest/2574571 A HUGE thanks to ALL of you!! Guy & Jeff
What We Know So Far About MH370
(Posted with permission from Fear of Landing; https://fearoflanding.com/) Fear of Landing / MH370: The Truth Behind the Headlines By Sylvia on Aug 18, 2017 09:14 pm Malaysia Airlines flight 370 has been in the headlines again and for the first time in quite a while, I’d like to talk about the real news behind the news….
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…
What exactly is Precipitation Static?
Recently a received a question that I thought I would know but as it turns out – I did not…
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…
…and then there is this…
As the bold headline in the Sunday Albuquerque Journal News Paper (Feb 5, 1939) shouts “Air Circles Baffled by Disappearance of Hawaii Clipper,” so goes our investigation. In a reverse of how we normally give information to our readers – we have decided to post the Page 7 article to better give the taste of…
Traces Found of Lost Clipper
Thanks Jamie for your message and I too must keep an open mind as I have been at this for over 16 years and am susceptible to target fixation (tunnel vision). Proof to another possible ending for the clipper may be found in the news papers from September 1938. In one article from the Reno…
Choy’s China Clipper Restaurant
Never give up hope! I have to remind myself those words from time to time. I recently had the pleasure of visiting Journal Square in Jersey City, New Jersey a few weeks ago and time sure has had its impact on the location that hosted Wah Sun Choy’s China Clipper Restaurant (lower left corner under…
Flight Interrupted: A Century of Planes that Did Not Arrive
Recently, I was made aware of an article in Parade Magazine by renown aviation author Christine Negroni on the eve of the two year anniversary of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. In the repost of this interesting article, Christine mentions the Hawaii Clipper as among a sad but real correlation between of MH-370 other similar…
July 29 – Seventy Eight Years Ago
On this day, seventy eight years ago, flight 229 vanished into history. If you have been following this blog; you know the story and where we are in the effort to bring an answer to the many questions that still exist of how and why it disappeared. Today we wish our continued sympathies and respect…