Update on new final chapter of the Hawaii Clipper saga
Category: Historical
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…
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
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,…
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 #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.
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…
The Lost Clipper - The mission to bring 15 forgotten Americans home 