Clipper, November 22, 1945

              NOVEMBER 22,
ATLANTIC DIVISION
Last Boeing Transit
Marked At Foynes
FOYNES, Oct. 29— Today the last Boeing Clipper arrived here from New York — marking the 455th transit of this station since the initial transatlantic passenger flight on June 28, 1939. During this period the Clippers made a total of 2,098 North Atlantic crossings over all routes.
Aboard the Atlantic Clipper on arrival was George Hice, 83-year-old President of the Roberts Machine Tool Co. of Brooklyn. Appropriately enough, Mr. Hice also was a passenger on the initial flight more than six and one-half years agq.
Another passenger was Edward Woods, returning to Limerick after 52 years continuous residence in New York City.
The passengers brought to approximately 6,400 the number who have passed through Foynes during 4% years of summer operation. The route via Foynes was closed during 1940 and 1941, due to the U. S. Neutrality Act restrictions.
The Boeings’ Record
During the six and one-half years of operations to both Foynes and Lisbon, the Boeing Clippers set the following marks:
Carried 83,000 passengers across the Atlantic.
Crossed the “Big Pond” 2,098 times.
Flew 11,100,000 miles to four continents.
Carried approximately 5,720,000 pounds of express.
Delivered nearly 5,000,000 pounds of mail.
Flew 99 special missions for the U. S. armed forces, the most important being the carriage of President Roosevelt to and from the historic Casablanca Conference in January, 1943.
In command of the Atlantic Clipper on its last flight to Foynes was Capt. Gulbransen. On the onward flight to Lisbon the ship was commanded by Capt. Wallace Culbertson. "Cubby” is one of PAA’s most experienced Captains, having joined the Atlantic Division at its inception. He is a well known figure here, having been in command of some of the first survey flights prior to the start of regular service in 1939 and having visited here regularly since.
In commemoration of the flight a “Pan American Day” was celebrated in Foynes, with a luncheon at the Airport restaurant for Capt. Culbertson and crew, Capt. Gulbransen and crew and PAA officials and guests. The luncheon was dedicated to “The flight crews and ground personnel who have made possible this development in transatlantic air service from 1937 to the present.”
After taking off, Capt. Culbertson circled Foynes, Shannon Airport and the city of Limerick before proceeding on his way.
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Copyright by Pan American Airways, Inc.
Read on four continents and four i s Ia n d s in between
Your Chance to Name a Clipper
Would you like to name a clipper?
This is your chance. With new 68,000-pound gross DC-4s being made available to the Atlantic Division, additional names are needed for these planes.
All employes are eligible to suggest names. Çhoice will be based on the appropriateness in view of the routes to be flown, identification with PAA or the United States and the' sound, or alliteration, of the name. Names previously used on Clippers are nbt eligible, since they will be transferred to new planes as the Boeings go out of service.
A seven-man committee representing the major departments concerned will make the selections of names from those submitted. The committee:
Executive	Bob Cummings, Manager
Traffic	Phil Delany, Traffic
Manager
Flight Operations Chile Vaughn, Chief Pilot Ground Operations Charlie Ruegg, Operations Sup’t.
Maintenance	A1 Elebash, Division
Engineer
Public Relations Jack Barnes, Public Relations Officer
Advertising	Elroy Scrivener, Advertis-
ing Manager
Closing Date Dec. 1
Generally speaking, the Committee will not favor names with too limited an appeal — such as names of cities — since the plane carrying that name will not be assigned to a particular route. Winning names will be awarded a $25. war bond.
Get your name in as soon as possible on the regular Suggestion System form since the first to suggest any name will be the sponsor. Closing date for the contest is Dec. 1. Foreign station suggestions postmarked by that date are eligible.
Winning names and employes will be announced as soon as we get new planes and as additional planes are secured later the contest will be reopehed, with all previous suggestions eligible. Names chosen will be painted on the nose of the present planes and will be transferred to the improved equipment as it is put into service.
Let’s have your ideas. Perhaps your name will join the already famous “Dixie”, “Atlantic”, “American” and “Capetown” in carrying the PAA house flag halfway around the world on the Atlantic runs.
PAA INTRODUCES FLIGHT
MOVIES AT PRESS PARTY
A “night preview” by two dozen newspaper and magazine reporters preceded the first overseas passenger trip last week on which movies were shown.
Miles out over the Atlantic while travelling at 8,000 feet the steward and stewardess drew the window curtains and the passengers sat back to enjoy the newlv-released 20th Century-Fox spy thriller, “The House on 92nd St.”
In addition to first-run, full length films, PAA passengers will enjoy short subjects, including the March of Time, comedies and travelogs, for the first time on any airline.
Advertisements describing the new service appeared in the press simultaneously with the first flight.
How It Operates
The movies in flight idea was developed by Traffic and Engineering together, with Joe Karpchuk, of Commercial Plane Service, being the man who adapted the equipment to flight use.
A modified 16 mm. projector, shock-mounted in the aft section of the aircraft, throws an image on a standard beaded screen (27" by 38") mounted on vibrationless brackets on the forward bulkhead of the cabin. The screen is
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JOE KARPCHUK working over the projector which he adapted for in-flight showings. An improved model will be suspended from the ceiling in later installations and will cut the weight in half.
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