Many thanks to Laurie for sending these interesting links:

https://deltavan1.wordpress.com/2017/03/...s-and-40s/

http://www.historynet.com/vanished-happe...lipper.htm

(08-08-2017 01:31 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  Many thanks to Laurie for sending these interesting links:

https://deltavan1.wordpress.com/2017/03/...s-and-40s/

http://www.historynet.com/vanished-happe...lipper.htm

I noticed that the first link is cut off and did not include that writer's opinion on what happened to the Hawaii Clipper. He was much more certain that the Japanese hijacked the plane, stole the information about the prized engines, executed the crew and passengers, and then sank the whole thing in a deep lagoon.

The second link gives more credence to other fates the plane might have met.

Between this story and Amelia Earhart's, maybe we should look for the lost Confederate gold in Asian waters?

For what it is worth, as a young middle level executive, my father worked in Chile in the late 1920s for a German exporting company, Hartmann and Sons, and flew several times as a passenger over the Andes to Argentina and back when that was an unbelievable, even harrowing, experience. I believe he flew in a Ford Trimotor, later copied as the WW II German transport, JU 52/53M.

Although I am now officially allergic to airplanes, I must admit that these old Clippers intrigue me enough that I might be willing to give them a try, if they were still around. However, flying over the Andes would not be a route that I would choose, no matter the type of plane.