VLVL(5) Why Hawaii?

[Terrance]

 But the
> important thing perhaps is the flight itself and what
> happens on it, and if you gotta fly somehwere to/from
> California, well, Hawaii.  And then there's that
> Japanese Air Force/Hawaii connection ...

The flight episode is by far the strangest in the book thus far. 
And, reading ahead, behind, and all around, there seems top be no reason
why Pynchon stuck this episode in here. OK, we get the business card.
So? We meet T. So? Who is he? How does Zoyd know him? What the hell is
going on? And what has this flight episode to do with anything that
happens in this book? Godzilla? Another goon squad? Adds up to nothin.