Mission #3 Pre-Trip Words

August 8, 2014 A few words… only hours before Guy Noffsinger leaves for Japan then on to Truk for the third mission to search for the 15 lost American souls.  Guy’s airplane will be maneuvering around two named hurricanes in the Pacific Ocean on his long flight to Japan.  With a 15 hour layover, he…

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FoxTV: Spreading the Word

Spreading the word about The Lost Clipper via Fox 5 in Washington DC before the next trip to Japan, Guam and Truk later this week. “You are about to meet a man who is working on a documentary, but he doesn’t know how it ends. It’s the story of the first plane ever hijacked. There…

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Pan Am’s Hawaii Clipper in 3D

Thanks everyone for all your warm notes on this project. The 3D M-130 Flying Boat is completed and here is the image. Please note that all the “filters” that are used to take it from cartoon to photo real have not been used and is pretty much raw. Given that, it looks pretty darn good…

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The Hawaii Clipper Flys Again!

Thanks to NewTek’s Lightwave 3D software, the Hawaii Clipper will fly again in the upcoming documentary about the mysterious vanishing of flight #229.  

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Hawaii Clipper 3D model v4

Hi everyone! Just a quick note to let you know Spring has definitely sprung with the Hawaii Clipper project and we are kicking off April with plans to complete the 3D model (Version 4 shown here… still needs some tweaking but getting there) and two interviews of family members associated with the passengers and crew….

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The Hawaii Clipper Breaks its Silence at the Smithsonian Udvar Hazy Museum

On Monday, April 8, 2013 I had the honor and privilege of speaking about the Hawaii Clipper to the Northern Virginia Chapter of the American Aviation Historical Society at the Smithsonian Udvar Hazy Museum.  The time “flew” by but I think we had some excellent discussions about the mystery and the status of my research….

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