"Dear Doctor Jones, You are too late! My research in Seville has paid off. By the time you get this letter I will have reached Manila where a boat has already been chartered. The prize is mine! No power on Earth can stop me now... " It is a fact that on July 29th, 1938, a big Pan-Am flying boat, the "Hawaii Clipper," vanished enroute from Guam to Manila. That's just over a year after Amelia Earhart disappeared nearby. Of course, accidents do happen. Yet, you've got to wonder if someone was out there collecting aeroplanes? The only clue to its fate was a convenient fuel slick on the sea east of Samar Island in the Philippines. No wreckage was ever found. Here I've imagined the tragedy as the opening scene of an action-adventure movie, where the surprised travellers have been hijacked by members of an ultra-nationalist Shinto cult, oh ...with a bit of help from a nearby aircraft carrier. ;-) Rendered in Vue 8 Espirit. I've previously modelled the Martin 130 and Mitsubishi A5M (Allied reporting name "Claude") in Shade 8.5. Thanks for viewing.