By John J. Geoghegan Aviation History Magazine Vanished!: What Happened to the Hawaii Clipper? In the 81 years since the Hawaii Clipper disappeared, no one has figured out what happened to the flying boat and its crew. A few minutes before 6 a.m. on July 29, 1938, Pan American Airways Captain Leonard Terletzky taxied the…
Category: Historical
An Expedition to Locate the Wreckage of Samoan Clipper
by The Pan Am Foundation Dr. Robert Ballard is best known for his discovery of the RMS Titanic’s final resting place. He continues his ocean exploration and work on board the Nautilus. BREAKING NEWS: Now in his sights is Pan American World Airways Sikorsky S-42 “Samoan Clipper”. Captained by Edwin C. Musick, lost over the…
Amelia and the Lost Clipper
Actual archived footage helps to tell the story of the American icon, Amelia Earhart.
Pearl Harbor Survivors Commemorate 77th Anniversary of Attack
On the morning of December 7, 1941, a Sunday, Japanese bombers flew across Oahu, Hawaii, and began their assault. The attack killed more than 2,300 people, nearly half of them on the battleship USS Arizona. More than 1,100 were injured. After the attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered a speech before Congress, calling December 7th a…
An Update On An Old Story
About a year ago, we weighed in on the image taken on Jaluit Atoll that was reported as being of missing aviatrix Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan. The issue was that a blogger in Japan found the exact same image in a Japanese archive and that it was “stamped” 1935. None of the…
What Happened on our most recent trip to Truk?
Update on new final chapter of the Hawaii Clipper saga
Quite A Productive Day!
We had quite a productive day today. Aside from a few downpours, things went well for us. The entire crew is back again tomorrow using sophisticated Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) via Topographix to hone in on our search target. These folks on the island are super friendly, climbing a nearby coconut tree and preparing a…
The Secret Is Out!
We’ve been hinting at it for a few months now. Working towards a goal that we all share, including you. Putting together an elite team of experts across various fields across the globe. From the UK, New Zealand and across the US., seven of us are currently converging on Chuuk as you read this. The…
Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were prisoners on Saipan and killed, according to uncle’s tale
by Jerick Sablan, Pacific (Guam) Daily News (USA Today) (We’re posting this story of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan from USA Today as their story interweaves with the story of The Lost Clipper…) HAGATNA, Guam — A man with ties to Saipan shared information that promotes a theory that Amelia Earhart was brought to the island and held…
We Thank You For Your Service
“Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country’s cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.” – Abraham Lincoln
Les Kinney on Amelia Earhart – Facts are Facts.
Les Kinney is a friend to the Hawaii Clipper Project and has conducted research for us at the National Archives just outside Washington DC. We felt compelled to share a recent note on an attack by TIGHAR on his theory: ================================================================ Gillespie (TIGHAR) does not tell you the following information about his theory: In October…
What’s NOT YET been said about the Amelia Earhart photo discovery…
So I am pretty sure you have seen this now famous spy photo allegedly of Pilot Amelia Earhart and Navigator Fred Noonan. If not — where have you been??? Blog visitor Tom recently remarked how the absence of Japanese guards should indicate that the two folks in the photo are not Earhart and Noonan but…
