https://vimeo.com/98265286 Hi Everyone, Trip number three back to Micronesia is on the horizon and I need your help to make it a success. As you may know, I have been researching the mysterious vanishing of Pan Am Airways flight 229 and the legend that the high-tech M-130 flying boat, the Hawaii Clipper, was a great…
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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…
Lost and Found?
Today is Day 33 in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. The discovery of any debris is still elusive to the searchers and a continued source of pain to the families and friends grieving their loved ones. For me personally, every time I hear anything about the missing airliner, and the possible causes of…
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….
Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 Fourteen Days Overdue
Will we ever know what happened to Flight MH370? Whether the most recent floating objects spotted are from the missing flight are related is still being determined, however most experts believe the debris may have sunk by now. However, even if they do find floating debris, the process of determining whether they’re from the missing…
NEW 3D Animated Hawaii Clipper
I really should not be doing this but I saw the first version of the 3D model of the Hawaii Clipper Flying Boat today and was just ecstatic about its impressive accuracy. There are a few tweaks that need to be made but overall, I’m quite pleased with the artists work. This model will eventually…
Malaysia Airliner Hijacked
There is a headline I expect to read any day now that new information may be coming to light that indicates an intentional effort to switch off the various communication devices aboard the Beijing bound 777 aircraft. For the very first time, I have seen the word “Piracy” associated with this particular flight. As you…
Getting ready for round III
Here is a very short montage of video I took on my last visit to Micronesia. As you can see, this effort had a lot of moving parts and many people making those parts work as smooth as possible. I could not take on an effort of this magnitude all by myself so my dear…
Found!
Well here is a lucky find today! I just received an original postcard of a restaurant called the China Clipper from either the late 1930s or early 1940s. According to my research, Wah Sun (Watson) Choy, a passenger on the Hawaii Clipper caring a very large some of money to his brother Frank in China,…
75th Anniversary of the Loss of the Hawaii Clipper
July 29, 1938, the Hawaii Clipper, on trip #229, was presumedly lost at sea 75 years ago today. The flying boat service between San Francisco Bay and Manila Bay required approximately sixty hours of flying time over six days with intermediate stops at Pearl Harbor, Midway Atoll, Wake Island and Guam. The Hawaii Clipper disappeared…
The Hawaii Clipper Performs Her First Float Test
Hawaii Clipper Flying Boat wades into Maryland’s Middle River for a float test
Suspect Myrt aircraft
Seen above are some archival images of a Japanese Torpedo aircraft found on an island in Chuuk (Truk Lagoon). While not directly tied to the Hawaii Clipper research effort, it is a foot note in today’s history that still, to this day, interesting and historically valuable relics are still being discovered in this day in…
The Lost Clipper - The mission to bring 15 forgotten Americans home 