Hawaii Clipper

The Story Behind the Manufacturer of The Hawaii Clipper

byJake Hardiman | Simply Flying When it comes to US postwar airliners, Douglas’s piston-engined designs like the DC-4 spring to mind. However, originally based in California, a now largely forgotten manufacturer called the Glenn L. Martin Company also threw its hat into the ring. In the beginning While The Martin Company’s best-known airliners flew in…

Giving Thanks with a Grateful Heart

by The Lost Clipper Team It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. (A moment of gratitude makes a difference in your attitude.)?? -David Steindl-Rast Enjoy this time with (friends via Zoom and) family around the dinner table this day!

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Adventurers Hope to Solve Enduring Aviation Mystery

by Jeff Riegel | Chris Wadsworth | Ashburn Magazine Some of The Lost Clipper team local to Baltimore/Washington DC recently got together over lunch and spent almost 4 hours speaking with Ashburn Magazine’s editor, Chris Wadsworth, about the historic story of the Lost (Hawaii) Clipper and our continued efforts to repatriate those lost souls in…

Four Ways We Can Use Your Help Today

Guy and the rest of the Lost Clipper team have been researching the disappearance of the NC14714 Hawaii Clipper for well over twenty years now. We’ve made great strides over the years, sometimes by leaps and bounds and other times in drabs and dribbles. Times are tough these days on a worldwide scale. For you….

Pan Am PBS Documentary “Across the Pacific: Another Ocean” Pt. III

by Moreno/Lyons Productions in association withThe Pan Am Museum Foundation The third and last episode of the new Pan Am documentary entitled “Another Ocean” is streaming on the website of Virginia Public Media, the “presenting” PBS station. (View here…) https://www.pbs.org/video/crossing-the-pacific-across-the-pacific-another-ocean-a456bz/ Defying the skeptics, Pan Am builds an airway to Asia, allowing its airplanes to hopscotch across the world’s widest…

Pan Am PBS Documentary “Across the Pacific: Airborne” Pt. 1

When the China Clipper took off for the first scheduled flight to Manila on November 22, 1935, it riveted the attention of people around the world.

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A Memorial Day Tribute from The Lost Clipper Team

On this Memorial Day, the Lost Clipper team are thankful for the sacrifice so many throughout our history have made, for the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice and for their families who had to carry on without them. It is a sacrifice that is easy to forget. For those who have it,…

The COVID Crime Chronicles

Steve Murphy – The inspiration for the Netflix series ‘Narcos’, and the former DEA agent who helped bring down Pablo Escobar, the world’s first narco-terrorist, joins Morgan Wright and The COVID Crime Chronicles with a special message about the Lost Clipper. Morgan Wright is an internationally recognized expert on cybersecurity strategy, cyberterrorism, identity theft and privacy….

41 Vanishing Facts About Amelia Earhart

by factinate.com “Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others” —Amelia Earhart Amelia Earhart was an author and pioneer in the field of aviation who disappeared during her attempt to circumnavigate the globe in 1937. During her life she broke new ground…