Clipper, Vol. 11, No. 8, August 1952

              Pan American World Airways
ATLANTIC DIVISION
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Read on four continents and four islands in between
Volume 11
Alienist, 1952
Number 8
What Heat Wave7
Clipper Is Read And Enjoyed By Most Employees in Division, Survey Reveals

Your Welfare
The Welfare Committee of the Pan Am Club will put tickets on sale next week. And the purchaser of the winning ticket will be awarded a TV set (now on display at the PX at Idle-wild. Proceeds of this project will go to the welfare fund.
Dressed in a heavy, fur-lined parka and gloves, pretty Jean Perry is oblivious of the heat wave which hit New York during July, while working in the frozen food locker at La Guardia Field. The frozen food is kept at 20 degrees below zero, so, when temperatures soar, there’s no objection to checking the stock.
Message Takes 3 Minutes In London To Idlewild Test
In order to test Pan American’s teletype network facilities and emergency procedures, a simulated emergency was conducted in the London area recently.
Teletype operating personnel at the stations concerned had been advised several days before that there would be a simulated emergency, but the time it would occur, or any further details, were not known.
At exactly 1423 (GMT) on the^ date selected for the test, a special-
ly prepared message was handed in to the communications center at London Airport. This message carried a high priority and was addressed to the flight dispatch office at Idlewild, advising that a simulated emergency was in progress.
In accordance with prescribed procedures, the London Airport communications center personnel immediately cleared the circuits and transmitted the message to Amsterdam, the European terminus of the IDL-AMS radioteletype circuit.
The AMS operators made what amounted to an almost instantaneous relay of the message to the radioteletype circuit which terminates in PAA’s main communications center in Long Island City, from which point it was delivered to the flight dispatch teletype fice to the company.
center at Idlewild at 1426, exactly three minutes from the time the message had been started.
The state of simulated emergency was held for approximately 20 minutes during which other phases of the emergency procedure were tested. A message was then flashed in the reverse direction, (Continued on Page 2)
‘Budget Way’ Is New Promotion Plan For Sales
The newest slogan in PAA is Atlantic Division’s “The Budget Way to the U. S. A.” which unfurls one of the newest promotional efforts in the Division and another “first” for the company.
The inauguration of the Rainbow Service has been widely acclaimed in the United States ,but less so in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, mainly because of the prevailing feeling that it is terribly expensive to travel to and within the United St.ates. The “Budget Way” plan hopes to overcome this resistance and open brand new fields of traf-
The first phase of the “Budget Way” program is to obtain up-to-date information on the living conditions in the United States which will include an index as to the cost of food, clothes, personal services (such as barbers, beauty parlors), as well as a list of hotels with their price and class ranges, res-(Continued on Page 2)
Pan Am Club Selects Ten Directors
Ten people to represent their respective groups on the board of directors of the Pan Am Club were selected in the election conducted by the club in the latter part of June. The 10 directors elected, and their alternates, are as follows:
Artie Wilson—John Crawford as alternate—for maintenance (repair shops, welding, carpenter, equipment, paint, inspection and production control).
Joe Castaldo—-June Rotker as alternate — for maintenance and communications (radio and electric, A/C cleaners, communications).
George Warde—Joe Zaslow as alternate—for maintenance (A/C services, plane service, line service, maintenance administration).
Miller Logan—Jack Kappler as alternate — for maintenance and flight (flight engineers, airline maintenance, A/C engineers).
A1 Cilli—Ann Clapps as alernate —for operations and flight (first pilots, route section, statistical analysis).
Robert Warnock —- George Cronin as alternate — for executives (insurance, legal, administrative services, planning and analysis, public relations, industrial relations, medical, properties, publications, office services, motor pool).
Doug Mitchell — Irene Mitroka as alternate—for operations and flight service (flight service group, scheduling and dispatch).
Bill Binnion — Hank Lavell as (Continued on Page 2)
Vote Favors Present Format, Features And Added Material
Answers to the questionnaire published by The Clipper two months ago, tabulated and printed on page three of this issue, reveal that most employees of the Division read every issue of this newspaper, and a large percentage of them enjoy reading it.
The vote also showed that a large majority like the present format and want present features retained. Preference for additional material was also indicated by the survey.
^ Tabulations by Region, not printed in this issue (but will be in future ones . . . Ed.), show that the reading of The Clipper is most thoroughly enjoyed (100 per cent) in the Iberian and Africa and the Middle East and Asia Regions, closely followed (98.9 per cent) by the Western European Region. It is least enjoyed (84.1 per cent) in the Western Atlantic Sector which includes New York, Fewer personnel in Western Atlantic, it was also revealed, read every issue of The Clipper and fewer read it from cover to cover, preferring news of their own stations only.
Most consistent complaint about The Clipper, in the comments made on the survey (some of which are also printed in this issue, on page four), was concerning the quality of paper being used now, and the relatively poor reproduction of pictures, as compared with the former, letter-sized Clipper.
Over 50 per cent of those who answered the questionnaire however, prefer the present format and over 75 per cent indicated that they wanted all features retained which existed at the time the survey was published. A slight majority also indicated that a twice-monthly publication was desirable.
In spite of the unfavorable comments on the subject, the survey (Continued on Page 2)
Transit Time At Gander Cut To 15 Minutes
Gander, Newfoundland
Twice during . the month of June, Gander lowered the boom on Boeing transit records.
First of all, on June 8, Clipper 121/07, with Captain Walt Hos-tettler in command, was on the blocks for only 18 minutes, during which time the aircraft was refueled, express was taken off, and four passengers with baggage were loaded. Tom Godden was the operations representative on duty for the transit.
This record lasted for three days, until Clipper 101/09, with Captain Art Dugan at the controls, spent only 15 minutes on the blocks. Once again, normal service was carried out. with express being taken off and passengers and baggage being boarded. Leo Goff was operations representative, with Gordon Noseworthy running the Allied operation.
These short transits were possible because of the exemplary cooperation of the flight crews, Al-(Continued on Page 2)
New DC-4 Cargo Service To Start On September I
Effective September 1, the present transatlantic cargo service, operated once weekly, will be increased to two roundtrips per week, it has been announced.
In addition to the one round trip now being operated from New York to Frankfurt with DC-6 A rented aircraft, the company will add one round trip per week from New York to Beirut, using the New York DC-4 cobus.
Detailed schedules will be developed by the scheduling committee, which will advise all concerned as soon as practicable.
Cooler Connies In The Future With New Unit
The decision to modify L-49 aircraft (Connies) to include a Model B-60-3 air cycle refrigeration unit (expansion turbine) has been announced by Pan American.
Originally, the L-49, when received by PAA, incorporated only an air recirculating system in which pressurized air from the supercharger on each outboard engine was pumped through the left and right-hand heater ducting to the cabin to satisfy winter operating needs. For the summer operation, however, there was nothing to cool the air. The recirculating fan merely kept it in motion.
Subsequently, the original system was modified to provide routing of pressurized air from both superchargers over the right-hand heater and fresh air was introduced by the recirculation fan through the left-hand heater duct-(Continued on Page 2)
In This Issue
	Page
Beirut 			 5
Bermuda 			6, 7
Bremen 			14
Brussels			16
Copenhagen 			14
Editor’s Corner 			 7
Emblem Awards 			6, 8, 11
Flight Personnel 			15
Frankfurt 			13,14,16
History 			 5
Headlinettes 			16
Istanbul 			 5
Johannesburg 			 6
Lisbon 			 6
London 			11, 12
Munich 			16
New York 			8, 9
Paris 			12
People Talking 			 2
Planes Quiz 			 2
Santa Maria 			 6
Shannon 			12
Sports 			 8
Survey 			3,4
System Kound-up ....		16
Vienna 	 			13
Well Done 					 9
	
At Clipper press-time, Pan American World Airways had completed 39,168 transatlantic crossings.