Pan American clipper, Vol. 6, No. 7, July 9, 1947

              ATLANTIC DIVISION
Read on four continents and four islands in between
Volume 6
July 9, 1947
Number 7
Clipper America Completes
First Flight Around Globe
The Clipper America completed its round-the-world circuit on Monday, June 30 — 13 days, three hours and 10 minutes after its takeoff from La Guardia Field. At 4:58 p.m. the new-type Constellation, with Captain Hugh H. Gordon, III, at the controls, reported in over the field. At precisely 5:05 the America “burned the rubber,” and nine minutes later the plane was on the blocks.
C. C. Snowdon Heads New Transportation Services
The establishment of a new department of transportation services is announced by Frank H. Hankins, Jr., Division operations manager. The new department, which supplants the former passenger service section of the traffic department, is headed by C. C. “Bert” Snowdon as superintendent. Mr. Snowdon, a C. C. Snowdon graduate of Cornell University, joined Pan American in 1941. In his first assignment he was chief steward for the Atlantic Division, and later he became commissary superintendent and passenger service manager. He was traffic representative on the Stratocruiser-Rainbow planning group.
Commissary and flight service make up the two main branches of the new transportation services department, with John Stark as commissary superintendent, Robert H. Jerosch as food and equipment control supervisor, Richard E. O’Leary as flight service superintendent and Don M. Cowen as assistant flight service superintendent. All line station port stewards and senior port stewards report to the commissary (Continued on page 4)
15 Flights Give London Busy Day
Tom Nelson, catching his breath, relates from London:
“On June 24, PAA’s main base seemed to move from LGA to LON. Fifteen movements were handled in one day. Five scheduled departures, two delayed schedules, and two extra sections all departed within the 15 minute tolerance while four of them made on-the-minute departures. The Operations Board read as follows:
ARRIVALS
Flite 100A/22	NC 56	240248
100/22	NC 68	240422
102/23	NC 61	240550
100/23	NC 65	241235
181/24	NC 10	241651
121/23	NC 57	241828
DEPARTURES		
Flite 180/24	NC 08	240845
180A/24	NC 09	240930
101A/24	NC 56	241000
105/23	NC 68	241207
101/24	NC 61	241610
Panair do Brasil 265	PCF	241840
121/23	NC 57	241950
103/24	NC 65	242300
Unsched	NC 33	241407
Frances Walker Will Hold Filing Classes
Mrs. Frances Walker, senior files supervisor, will conduct a series of filing classes, starting July 15, it is announced by Ray Colcord, office manager. The classes are designed to acquaint PAA filing personnel with the Division-wide filing system which has been set up and is now being installed.
Mrs. Walker has had wide experience in organizing and setting up Pan American files. Before joining the Atlantic Division she worked on the Airport Development Program and with the Africa-Orient Division in Miami. She has already set up the executive and public relations files at NBA in accordance with the new standards and they are working smoothly.
Attendance at the first course will be limited to 15 senior filing employes. Classes will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. in Room 229, Long Island City, on July 15, 18, 22, 25, and 29, and August
RAMP SERVICE AT LGA STREAMLINED
To expedite the handling of cargo and passenger movements and to increase the efficiency of ramp services five international airlines — both foreign and American flag carriers — have put into operation a program which offers international passengers a streamlined ramp service at La Guardia field’s International Air Terminal.
The carriers are American Overseas Airlines, Pan American World Airways, Scandinavian Airlines System, British Overseas Airways Corporation and Sabena, the Belgian line.
These services are performed by Allied Aviation Service Company, Inc., a division of the Allied Maintenance Company, for all of these carriers.
Allied Maintenance, a corporation engaged in business since 1888, will confine its functions to ramp service activities as distinguished from actual aircraft maintenance which will continue to be accomplished by the individual airlines. Allied has made ground handling studies for many of the larger air terminal cities, among them Chicago, Detroit, and Memphis, and the Aeronautical Commission of the State of Connecticut.
As Captain Gordon leaned out of the cockpit to wave a greeting, a shout of applause went up from the assembled PAA-ers and the relatives and friends of the passengers who had made the historic flight. Newspaper photographers, newsreel and television cameramen and a crowd of reporters were waiting for the passengers as they emerged from the plane that had been their luxurious home for almost two weeks.
The publishers, editors and PAA officials who made this first commercial flight around the world had plenty to say to the reporters. They told of having tea with Prime Minister Clement Attlee in London and being entertained there by US Ambassador T ewis W. Douglas and Lord Beaverbrook. At th^. Municipal Casino in Istanbul they were guests at a buffet given by Lutfi Aksyo, acting governor, and they were entertained by the governor of Bengal Province in India.
While in Manila the travelers talked to President Manuel A. Roxas of the Philippines and they dined with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and Madame Chiang in Nanking. All agreed that a high point in their trip was a two-hour interview with General Douglas MacArthur in Tokyo.
Broadcast Report
An hour and one half after their arrival, President Juan T. Trippe and a number of the publishers who made the flight went on the radio over the coast-to-coast network of the National Broadcasting Company. With Lowell Thomas as interviewer, they took over Mr. Thomas’ regular program to give brief impressions of economic and political conditions around the world.
The baggage carried by the globe trotters and by all the members of the crew was augmented en route by souvenirs which they received at the various ports of call. Stewardess Alice Lemieux, for instance, is taking home with her to Westbrook, Me., a black silver bracelet from Siam, a huge silver coin from Dharan, a Japanese sword from Tokyo, sterling silver chopsticks from Shanghai, a silver cigarette case from Chicago, and the pressed remains of an orchid lei placed around her neck in Honolulu.
Navigator Stuart B. Robinson provided the statistical report of the trail blazing flight. In circumnavigating the globe the Clipper America was in the air 101 hours, 32 minutes. Block to block time, including taxiing, totaled 106 hours, (Continued on page 4)
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