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Author: Jeff Riegel, Producer/Editor
A Soldier Died Today
Today is Memorial Day. We wanted to share with you a brief two-time Emmy-winning video that has a great impact, especially today, no matter where you are in this world. Stephen Clouse and Guy Noffsinger produced, edited, and put this together for The Freedom Alliance which supports our troops and their families through educational scholarships,…
72 Years Ago, Victory in Europe
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.
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,…
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…
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.
Weekly Clipper Clip #13: An Adventure of a Lifetime
Mr. Bill Stinnett, our lead investigator onsite in Micronesia, is full of anticipation about The Lost Clipper, a story of a lifetime.
