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My uncle offered me £100k for a typhoon. Where do I get one?
Few Americans, today, have heard of Hawaii Clipper, Pan American Airways' trans- Pacific flying boat, and fewer, still, know of her sudden disappearance, west of Guam, 64 years ago. In fact, until now, only a select few have known that she was hi-jacked in flight and diverted to the Imperial Japanese Navy's Fourth Fleet naval base, at Truk. There, her fifteen passengers and crew were murdered and entombed, reportedly face down, within the poured-concrete foundation slab of the infamous naval hospital, being built on Unimakur Mountain, at Dublon Island, overlooking the fleet's Eten Anchorage.
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The reason so few Americans know about the world's first airline hi-jacking is that the "select few" are, and have been, for the most part, the "guardians of silence" within our own government. As to the reasons for this silence, Hawaii Clipper may be seen as a key that will unlock doors to the past, forcing some surprising corrections to important chapters of American history. To maintain this silence, and in addition to other actions, a disinformation campaign is presently working to discredit Fix on the Rising Sun, the book about the hi-jacking, alleging that its primary source, the Pan American Airways "Priester Report," never existed, although, as will be shown, it existed and still exists.
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Painted in Japanese colors, Hawaii Clipper reportedly survived to the war's end and was inspected, in Yokosuka, Japan, by senior American officers, then present for the Japanese surrender. The concrete slab survived the 1944 U.S. air attack on Truk and, according to reports received as of July 7, 2001, it survives, undisturbed, even today. Within it lie the remains of the fifteen passengers and crew, the Ultimate M.I.A.'s from the dawn of the Pacific War, who still wait to be brought home.
The other two Clipper planes crashed, the Japanese did have dozens of planes of the same design as did Great Britain and Holland. It was far from unique in design. It makes more sense that the Hawaii Clipper met the same fate of it's two sister planes. Everyone said the same thing about the Clippers, they were underpowered for the weight they had to haul and that's why all three crashed and if they were so good, why were they never replaced?
I think the whole thing is ridiculous, before war the Japanese outstripped the United States in aviation and used more passengers planes than almost any other country to get around the Pacific. Why would Japan hijack one inferior airplane to their own when it had a fleet of better built and better performing air/sea passenger planes of it's own?
Mosquito, I'm not sure I agree with you regarding the "underpowered" comment about the Martin 130. Horsepower to weight is about 13.75 lbs/hp. Not what you'd call a barn burner, but not that awful, either. It is also true that military forces are always trying to steal samples of enemy hardware. Look at us; we just about slobbered all over ourselves when we got hold of the MiG 25. It turned out to be a dud, once Chuck Yeager flew the thing, but until we had it for testing, we didn't know.
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