Clipper, Vol. 15, No. 5, May 1956

              Pan	American World Airways

ATLANTIC DIVISION
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Volume 15
MAY, 1956
No. 5
Quarter-Year Cargo Volume 61% Greater
The booming business in transatlantic air cargo continued through the first quarter of 1956. A 61 per cent increase over the amount carried during the corresponding period a year ago was announced last month.
For the first three months of this year the total carried oetween the United States and Europe was 2,014,269 pounds, as compared with 1,252,661 pounds for the first quarter of 1955, according to Vice President Willis G. Lipscomb.
“The first quarter results are particularly significant,” Mr. Lipscomb said, “because it indicates that we are well on the way toward becoming the first airline to fly 10,000,000 pounds of cargo over the Atlantic in a single year. Growth “Phenomenal”
“Although Pan American inaugurated regular air express between the United States and Europe as long ago as 1940, the growth of air cargo in the last year has been phenomenal.
“Where our first air express shipment when the service began 15 years ago consisted only of an afghan consigned to the Queen of England, we are now flying generators and turbines, horses and tropical fish, and literally everything that can fit into the wide doors of our 330-mile-per-hour DC-6As.”
Continuing the first quarter (Continued on Page 2)
Dividend
Directors of Pan American > World Airways have declared a dividend of 20 cents a share, payable on May 16 to stockholders of record at the close of business on April 13.
This is the 46th dividend to be paid by Pan American. A payment of 20 cents a share was made on March 10. Dividend payments have been made each year since 1941.
In This Issue
Beirut .................... 8
Bermuda ................... 3
Bremen .................... 9
Brussels .................. 8
Calcutta .................. 8
Chicago ................... 4
Detroit ................... 4
Duesseldorf ............... 9
Flight Personnel ..........11
Frankfurt ................. 9
Hamburg ................... 9
Hannover .................. 9
Jo’burg ...................10
Keflavik .................. 8
Lisbon ....................10
London ...................6, 7
New York ...............3, 4, 5
Paris ..................... 6
Roberts Field..............10
Santa Maria ..............10
Shannon ................... 6
Stuttgart ................ 9
Vienna .................... 8
Outstanding Airmanship

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A letter of commendation and a trophy for “outstanding airmanship” were presented last month to Third Officer David Spear by Chief Pilot C. E. “Chili” Vaughn. The award was earned while Spear was employed by the Hawthorne School of Aviation, under government contract, giving flying instructions to army personnel. Spear was credited with saving the life of a pupil during a training mission.
Flight Simulators For Jets Purchased For Grew Training
Pan American World Airways, the first airline to purchase jet transports, has placed a multiple order for electronic flight simulators for the training of crews for its $269,-000,000 fleet of 48 Douglas DC-8s and Boeing 707s. This announcement was made late last month by Franklin Gled-hi'll, vice president of Pan American, and Roy T. Hurley, chairman and president of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation.
Option On Others
The order calls for the delivery
of two simulators, one each for the DC-8 and 707, by the Electronics Division of Curtiss-Wright, Carlstadt, N. J., by 1958.
Pan American is also given an option on two additional DC-8 simulators and three additional 707 simulators.
Under the terms of the contract between Pan American and Curtiss-Wright, the first two simulators will be delivered six months in advance of the delivery date of the actual jetliners whose flight characteristics they reproduce. Thus, Pan American will be able to train crews in jetliner flying before the jets are received.
DC-7C Simulator At the same time, it was announced that Pan American is about to take delivery of the Curtiss-Wright simulator for the DC-7C, fastest, longest-range overseas airplane and the most modern of a long line of Douglas piston-engined aircraft. Announcement of the purchase of this DC-7C simulator was made in 1955.
Conditions Duplicated Electronic flight simulators of the type ordered by Pan American are constructed around the actual crew compartments of the aircraft they represent, complete with all instruments and controls.
All of the flight characteristics of the aircraft, including engine and other aircraft sounds, feel of the controls—even the squeal of (Continued on Page 12)
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RECORD
A DC-7B Clipper piloted by Captain Edwin H. Mullen flew from Shannon to New York in nine hours and 37 minutes to set a record last month for commercial planes. Flying at 20,000 feet, the plane averaged 325 miles an hour on the 3,170-mile flight.
Polar Route To Europe Sought By Pan American
Passenger travel, and mail and cargo volume from the west coast of United States to Europe have developed to the extent where both U.S.-flag transatlantic airlines could operate profitable direct service over the polar route.
This statement, accompanied by detailed economic analyses of the proposed service, was filed by Pan American
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Aeronautics Board in Washington
Forwarders Get
Pan Am Support On Application
The increasing importance of the international air freight forwarder was underlined by Pan American World Airways before the Civil Aeronautics Board last month in New York.
Pan American, the leading carrier of air cargo throughout the world, supported the freight forwarders’ application for renewal of their operating authority by making these points:
1.	Pan American favors the principle of consolidating and forwarding and believes it has a valid place in international air transportation.
2.	Economies made possible by the consolidating function are sufficiently substantial to warrant its encouragement. Pan American expects that these economies will continue to grow in importance as the volume of international air cargo expands.
3.	Pan American recommended general adoption of the type of rate structure that will encourage international forwarding and will stimulate the development of independent forwarders having the necessary economic strength and sufficient incentive to promote effectively the growth of international air cargo.
last month.
Both Pan American and TWA have applied to the board for the right to fly the polar route.
For the public, a polar service from the West Coast to London would represent a saving of 1,074 miles from Seattle; 1,013 from Portland; 659 from San Francisco and 432 from Los Angeles. The savings in time, however, would be much greater than is indicated by the mileage differences, Pan American said.
5 to 15-Hour Saving
The best transcontinental and transatlantic flights are both overnight services. A passenger arriving in New York in the morning off the crack transcontinental non-stops usually has to wait until late afternoon to depart to Europe.
Time savings of the direct service would be from five to 15 hours, or from a two-night trip to a one-night trip, Pan American said.
Approximately 50,000 people flew from the west coast to Europe in 1955, Pan American’s analyses show. The west coast is the most rapidly growing area in the country, already accounting for 10 per cent of the total U.S. population.
Its residents also account for 10 per cent of the number of passports issued. Los Angeles is the third largest city in the United States.
Others Have Rights
Scandinavian, British, German and Canadian airlines have rights (Continued on Page 12)
A. J. Kelly Appointed Vice President, Europe; Murray And Pirie Also Elected By Directors
Pan American’s board of directors has elected three new officers of the company, it was announced last month by President Juan T. Trippe.
Robert B. Murray, Jr., was elected as vice-president; A. Jack-son Kelly was named vice president for Europe, and John C. Pirie was elected as associate general counsel.
Mr. Murray has been vice president and assistant to the president, as well as a director, of the Baldwin-Lima Hamilton Corporation. During World War II he served as a colonel in the Army Air Force and later was active in the Reserves, as commanding officer of the 512 Air Base Group.
He has been a member of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the Air Navigation Development Board, chairman of the American delegation to the
International Civil Aviation Conference in 1953, and of the Air Coordinating Committee. He also
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A. JACKSON KELLY
served as the Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation from 1953 to 1955 .
As Vice President—Europe, Mr. Kelly will be responsible for coordinating all of Pan American’s European activities and will make his headquarters in London, England.
Mr. Kelly entered Pan American’s traffic and sales training program in February, 1937, and served as district traffic and sales manager in Lisbon, Portugal, and London, England, prior to serving as assistant division manager in 1944 and regional director for Western and Central Europe since 1947.
Associate General Counsel John C. Pirie first joined Pan American’s legal department in 1941. He was made assistant general counsel in 1946. He was admitted to the New York bar in 1936.