This promotional documentary film entitled “Overnight to Hawaii” highlights the pre-World War II flight paths of Pan Am Clippers along the Pacific and offers the viewer a life-like experience of being on board.
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Juan Trippe’s Induction into the Aviation Hall of Fame
by The Pan Am Historical Foundation Over 50 years ago today on December 17th, 1970, Juan T. Trippe was inducted into the Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio. This 15-minute film was produced for the occasion.
A Conversation with Chasing Earhart Podcast
“Few investigations have the ability to turn this case around in the way that this one does.”
Hawaii, One of the Brightest Jewels in Pan Am’s Crown
From the arrival of the first clipper in 1935, Hawaii was one of the brightest jewels in Pan Am”s crown.
The Last Flight of The Hawaii Clipper
by The Pan Am Historical Foundation In June 1938, a young engineer from the National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA) took along his 16mm movie camera on what would be the last completed round-trip flight of the Hawaii Clipper. The following month, the aircraft vanished without a trace. This is a short segment from that…
Game of Crimes Podcast: An 80-Year Old Cold Case
Listen to our Lost Clipper team member and friend, Steve Murphy, along with investigator, Morgan Wright, on their Game of Crimes podcast as they take a deep dive into our story.
This Day in Aviation: The Hawaii Clipper
by Bryan R. Swopes, This Day in Aviation This day in history, over 80 years ago… 29 July 1938: At 12:08 p.m., local time, the Pan American Airways System flying boat Hawaii Clipper lifted off from the waters of Apra Harbor on the west side of Guam, an island in the western Pacific Ocean. The Clipper was…
The Marine Air Terminal Memorializes Pan Am’s Historic Legacy
The highly-anticipated new Boeing B-314 Model of the iconic “Yankee Clipper” and three new bronze historical plaques at the Marine Air Terminal (MAT) in NYC were installed in October 2021.
Crowd Sourcing: We Can Use Your Help
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….
The Traveling Image Makers: Ollie Dale and the Lost Clipper
Here’s a flashback from a few years back that we somehow missed posting. Ollie Dale is The Lost Clipper Team’s on-location videographer while in the islands. “Recently Ollie has been hired to be the official photographer and videographer of the Lost Clipper expedition to a small Pacific island in Micronesia, where they will try to find…
Magazine Wins A Best-in-Show Award for Lost Clipper Article
by Chris Wadsworth | Ashburn Magazine & The Burn Doing real magazine journalism with a focus on quality writing, photography and design has paid off for our friends at Ashburn Magazine. The publication received two Best-in-Show awards and 16 other prizes in the Virginia Press Association’s annual competition for journalistic and advertising excellence in 2021. Editor…
Indiana Jones Sat Here
by Indiana Jones Wiki On a related note to The Hawaii Clipper, the sister plane China Clipper depicted in Raiders of the Lost Ark should be a Martin M-130 plane, but during the filming of the movie, the production crew discovered that there was a Short Solent Mark III flying boat undergoing restoration in Oakland. Short Solents…
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