Clipper, Vol. 17, No. 8, Fall 1958

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ATLANTIC DIVISION
Volume 17
Fall Issue, 1958
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No. 8
8,600 See 707 At IDL
Jet Service Starts Oct. 26
PAA, National to Trade Jets, Stock
Pan American and National Airlines have reached an agreement for peak season leasing of each other’s jet aircraft which will enable National to commence Boeing 707 jet service from New York to Miami this December and will
provide Pan American with two additional jets, Douglas DC-8’s, for its busy summer season.
The Pan American-National agreement makes possible more efficient utilization of aircraft and ground facilities, with resulting benefits to both companies as well as to the public.
The 10-year agreement calls for National to lease two Boeing Jets from Pan Am for use on National’s New York/Miami run, which has its peak traffic during the winter months. In turn, National will lease two of its DC-8’s to Pan Am beginning in 1960 for use during Pan Am’s summer transatlantic peak season.
Stock Agreement
The two airlines have also entered into another agreement to be presented to the Civil Aeronautics Board. Under its terms, each of the two companies will issue to the other 400,000 shares of capital stock.
In addition, National grants Pan American a three-year option to acquire an additional 250,000 shares of National Airlines stock at $22.50 per share.
The agreement provides that all stock involved is to be vested in independent trustees pending the CAB’s ruling on transfer of the stock from those trustees to the airlines themselves. The agreement further provides that (Continued on Page 5)
Cargo Gets Two More DG6As
Two additional DC-6A’s will go into service on Division allcargo flights in October, increasing our weekly cargo lift capacity by almost 30 tons.
The aircraft, which were acquired from Slick Airways, an all-cargo and charter airline which recently drastically reduced its operations, will replace the two DC-4’s now in service on the North Atlantic cargo run.
Each of the two newly-acquired DC-6A freighters, as well as the single DC-6A now in service, will operate two round trips weekly. All three are temperature-controlled and pressurized.
The DC-6A has larger doors than any commercial aircraft now in transatlantic service, and consequently can handle larger, bulkier shipments. Because it is pressurized and temperature-controlled, it is better (Continued on Page 11)
THRONGS OF COEMPS turned out for Blood Day at IDL recently and by the end of the day the Red Cross Blood-mobile has collected 254 pints. Another 66 volunteers had to postpone their donations because of temporary disqualifying factors. The Blood Bank Chairman, Sophie Wetter of Maintenance, extends her thanks to all who helped make the Blood Drive such a success.
Our first 707 Jet Clipper soars from IDL runway
LON / IDL Record Set by First 707
A Boeing 707-121 Jet Clipper, the first of our fleet of 44 jet aircraft, was delivered in Seattle, Washington on August 15. It arrived at IDL, via MIA and SJU, on August 24
and almost immediately embarked on a series of training and survey flights, one of which was a record-setting non-stop flight from London to IDL.
This was the first non-stop westbound transatlantic flight by a commercial jet. Clipper America completed the 3,560 miles from Stansted, one of London’s alternate airports, to IDL in seven hours, 20 minutes — more than two hours faster than the previous record held by a Bristol Britannia turboprop aircraft.
When the Boeing 707-121 arrived at IDL after its non-stop flight from London, Capt. C. N.
“Jooj” Warren, the flight commander, told reporters that it had sufficient fuel in reserve to continue on to Miami, New Orleans, Kansas City or Minneapolis.
Executive Vice President Harold E. Gray, a passenger on the flight, said that the aircraft “did exactly what was expected of it.’
The non-stop westbound flight was the return leg of the giant jet’s first Atlantic crossing, a survey flight check of routes and landing fields. On the east-(Continued on Page 6)
Daily Jet Flites To Paris/Rome
On October 26 a Pan Am Boeing 707-121 will make the first scheduled transatlantic jet flight, inaugurating daily Jet Clipper service between New York, Paris and Rome.
Daily Jet Clipper flights between New York and London will start on November 16.
The jet flights will cut the flying time between New York and Paris to seven hours, four and a half hours faster than the scheduled time for the fastest piston engine aircraft, the DC-7C. Scheduled jet flight time to London is six and a half hours.
The Paris-bound flights will depart Idlewild at 7:00 P.M. and arrive at Le Bourget Airport in Paris the next morning at 8:00 A.M., Paris local time, and will continue on to Rome, arriving there at 11:20 A.M.
Return flights will depart Rome at 3:00 P.M. and arrive at Paris an hour and 55 minutes later. They will depart Paris at 6:00 P.M. and arrive at IDL at 9 :25 P.M. the same evening.
London-bound flights will depart IDL at 10 A.M. and arrive at London at 9:35 P.M. that night. Return flights will leave LON at 11 A.M. and arrive at IDL at 2:45 P.M. the same day.
Both deluxe “President Special” and Economy service will be offered on the 575 mile-per-hour Clippers with no increase in fares.
The number of deluxe and (Continued on Page 11)
Coemps Walk Thru Jet at Open House
It was Family Open House Day at IDL. All Pan Am employees in the New York area — Atlantic, System, U.S. Sales and LAD-NYK — had been invited to bring their families to our new Division Headquarters for a tour of the mammoth new Hangar 14 and a walk-through of a Pan Am Jet Clipper, which made its maiden landing at IDL that very morning (Sunday, August 24).
More than 8,600 coemps and their relatives came out to see the biggest airline facility on the field and the first U.S.-built commercial jet.
One of our visitors that day was ten-year old Jacquelyn Johnson, niece of Dixie Williford, IDL Line Crew Mechanic. Here’s a report on Family Open House Day, as seen through the eyes of a small child [with notes added by the Editor].
“Today [Aug. 24] my Uncle (Continued on Page 3)