Clipper, Vol. 18, No. 2, Spring 1959

              Volume 18	SPRING ISSUE, 1959	No. 2
DOUGLAS DC-8 CLIPPER soars majestically over the U.S. West Coast on a test flight. Photo reveals several differences between Douglas and Boeing jet designs — in the nose, wing tips and tail. Can you spot them?
Jets Will Fly to Paraguay
Our Jet Clippers will link North and South America starting in late April with a 10-hour schedule between New York and Asuncion, Paraguay — 15i/2 hours faster than the fastest piston-engine aircraft schedules between the two cities.
The South American service will be introduced when jet equipment now on lease to National Airlines becomes available. The Asuncion service initially will be on a once-weekly basis. Jet Clippers will fly to Caracas, Venezuela, and then nonstop to Asuncion, Paraguay.
Later, Pan Am expects to extend the New York-Caracas-Asuncion jet flights to Buenos Aires. Travel time between New York and Buenos Aires will be reduced from 24 to 12 hours.
Jet Clipper service between
New York and South America means that all-jet service to Europe will be available this summer to Latin Americans. (Caracas is already a leading producer of jet sales.)
Both first-class and tourist service will be offered on the New York-Asuncion flights.
Pan Am is already certificated to provide service between New York, Caracas, and Asuncion, but filed notice with the CAB of its intent to initiate a nonstop service between Cara-(Continued on page 14)
50 Jet Flights
Set for Summer
During the summer season, fifty Jet Clipper flights will be operated between New York and Europe every week.
Starting April 26, two Jet Clipper round trips will be operated every day between New York and London. Jet Clipper service between New York and Paris will be increased to 11 round trips per week beginning June 1.
Jets Flying Non-stop
From December 26 to March 1, every Jet Clipper flight to London — except those diverted because of weather — flew non-stop.
During this period, flight 100 arrived in London non-stop from New York on 51 trips, for a non-stop performance of 91 per cent. Only five flights were forced to divert to other cities — all because of London weather conditions.
Non-stop performance to Paris was also impressive — 71 per cent. During the month of January alone, flight 114 went non-stop IDL/PAR on 25 trips, diverted twice because of weather, and made four refueling stops.
While posting this non-stop record, the Jet Clippers hauled heavy cargo loads. For flight 100, the average load was 3,500 pounds of cargo and mail; flight 114, 5,500 pounds.
PAA Gives Grants To 8 Universities
Financial grants to eight leading American universities which maintain advanced graduate school programs in medicine, the sciences, engineering, foreign languages and teacher training, have been authorized by the Board of Directors of
Pan American World Airways, it was announced by President Juan T. Trippe.
The unrestricted grants are an extension of Pan American’s current Aid-to-Education Program, which includes scholarships, travel fellowships, aid to medical education, support of aviation research and aviation education at the secondary school level.
Universities which will receive grants include Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton, Stanford and Yale.
Commenting on the grants, Mr. Trippe said:
“The universities in this program — and their sister universities which provide advanced instruction at the graduate school level — have a great responsibility for training our citizens in medicine, in the sciences and engineering, in foreign languages and in teacher training. Our national security today and our country’s position of responsibility in a disturbed world further emphasize this great responsibility.”
“The advanced training and education at the graduate school level provided by our leading universities is also important to
our nation’s industry. Pan American is glad to join other business institutions in this important aid to higher education.”
The unrestricted grant to the eight universities in 1959 totals $40,000. Mr. Trippe said it was the company’s hope that such a program could be continued on an annual basis for the next five years.
Winter Travel Increase: 47 %
Winter travel on our flights between the United States and Europe increased by 47 per cent during the first nine weeks of this year compared with the same period in 1958.
Traffic statistics covering all other scheduled transatlantic carriers show an 11 per cent increase in Europe travel during the same period.
On flights between New York and Puerto Rico during this period we carried over 50 per cent more passengers. On flights to Hawaii the increase was 16 per cent.
The new schedule doubles our present daily jet service to London and will add four flights a week both eastbound and westbound to daily service to Paris now being operated.
In addition, the daily flight to Paris, which now continues on to Rome once a week, will fly to Rome daily beginning April 26. Boston Becomes Jetway
Boston will become the United States’ second jet gateway for international flights with the additional four weekly flights to Paris routed from New York to Boston and then non-stop to Paris. At present, jets flying the transatlantic routes depart only from Idlewild.
The summer schedule eliminates Tourist Class service on our transatlantic routes. All Jet Clipper flights will be operated with President Special Deluxe and Economy service. First Class and Economy service will be offered on flights operated with piston-engined aircraft.
The jet schedule includes daily evening departures to Paris and Rome and, beginning June 1, four morning departures to Paris.
London-bound jets will leave (Continued on page 14)
VALENTINE’S wishes are extended by actress Janet Munro as she’s about to board a Clipper flight to England, bearing a heart full of sweets.
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