Clipper, January 31, 1946

              Copyright by Pan American Airways, Inc.
ATLANTIC DIVISION
Read on four continents and four i s i a n d s in b e t w c*
Delany 15-Yr. Man Capt. Flower Sets 9:58 Record On
10 Year Pins To	N. Y.-Lisbon Non-Stop Flight
Washburn & Maas
Phil S. Delany, Traffic Manager of the Atlantic Division, is the top PAAer this month, having celebrated 15 years with the Company on January 10.
Phil is well known in aviation traffic circles as a pioneer in the international field.
He started with PAA as traffic representative in Miami. For the next three years he served as a traffic representative or district traffic manager in the Atlantic Services of PAA
in Miami, Nassau and Boston. In 1934 he was named Assistant District Sales Manager in Los Angeles and three years later was sent to Hong Kong, China, as our Traffic Representative for China. After a three-year service in the Orient, Phil moved to Auckland, New Zealand as South Pacific Traffic Manager.
His world-wide jobs were ended in May, 1942, when he was brought back to LaGuardia Field, headquarters for the transatlantic services as Assistant Division Traffic Manager. Seven months later he was named Division Traffic Manager.
Chief Inspector Dick Washburn and his side kick John Maas, Assistant Chief Inspector in charge of Training and Office Organization, celebrated 10 years with the company during the month.
Dick joined PAA at Treasure Island as a mechanics helper, 2/c. Within a year he had been made mechanic 1/c and mechanic and
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Capt. Scott Flower, of the Atlantic Division, skippered a Constellation on a non-stop New York-Lisbon hop in the record-shattering time of 9 hours and 58 minutes.
Flying with Capt. Flower were: 1st Officer Haakon Gulbransen; 2nd Officer Donald O’Neill; 3rd Officer Arthur L. McCullough; Flight Engineer James B. Massey; 2nd Flight Engineer Charles Darcy; Flight Radio Officer Harry L. Drake; 2nd Flight Radio Officer David M. Sanders; Purser Raymond Tunstall; Stewardess Jennie R. Cahoon; 2nd Stewardess Isabella Murdoch. Capt. “Chile” Vaughn, Capt. Paul LeFevre and Alden Tibbets traveled as supernumeraries. Company personnel on the flight were: Robert L. Cummings, Division Manager; James A. Erlicher, Regional Manager-Midwest; Bill Eldridge, Assistant Operations Superintendent; Andy Miller, Industrial Safety; Bob Neff, Public Relations Manager; Jim
Rhoads, Maint.; Edward A. Rothrock, Washington Office; Paul Strieffler, Business Manager; A. Paul Wollam, Ground Service Supervisor; John Yerxa, Regional Manager-New England Area.
The Clipper, which had been introduced to commercial service less than a week earlier by PAA, cut the flight time to Lisbon required by the old flying boats by more than half and made the crossing in 3 hours less than any previous transport plane. Average speed was 344 miles per hour on the 3,425-mile flight.
The survey flight, with 25 company personnel aboard, was preliminary to commencing daily passenger flights to Portugal and France in February. Leaving La Guardia Field at 12:45 A.M. Sunday morning the Clipper reached Lisbon at 10:43 (New York time) the same morning. One incidental result which impressed passengers was the delight of residents of Lisbon that for the first time in their lives they could read a New York Sunday paper on Sunday.
Capt. Flower reported that the ship followed a Great Circle course to take advantage of favorable winds, a standard PAA procedure. The ship reached a top speed of nearly 400 miles an hour at one point.
The flight — first non-stop to Lisbon and one of the longest by a commercial plane — passed 700 miles north of the Azores. The regular passenger service will make a stop there in order to carry less gas and additional payload. On landing Capt. Flower said he had sufficient gas remaining to go on to Rome or that 14 additional passengers could have been carried.
The plane flew at 19,000 feet most of the way, but the pressurized cabin kept the interior at the equivalent of 7,200 feet and passengers enjoyed complete comfort. Outside temperature dropped to 5 degrees below zero, with cabin temperature at 70 degrees.
The time recorded is that of passing over the
Portella Airport, with landing eight minutes later. Best time of the Boeing flying boats previously used on the run was 24 hours, while the DC-4 Clippers now serving Portgual via Eire take 19 hours, 15 minutes flying time.
The 344 mile per hour average compares with the 319 m.p.h. record set by the same ship when it went into passenger service with a record 2 hour, 22 minute run to Bermuda. Best previous transatlantic crossing was one at 300 miles an hour by TWA on Dec. 4, 1945. This flight was 3,840 miles from Washington to Paris, with stops at Gander, Newfoundland, and Shannon, Eire, and took 12 hours, 52 minutes flying time.
Best other comparative time was the August 1, 1945, flight of an Army Air Transport Command Constellation from New York to Paris, a distance of 3,600 miles, in 14 hours, 12 minutes. This is an average speed of 253 miles per hour.
From Lisbon the 45-ton ship, largest in service today, will go to Marseilles, France, to London and on to Shannon, Eire, before completing the 11,000 mile survey with a return flight across the North Atlantic in about a week.
Among the 2,000 pounds of express and luggage were included hard-to-get items for PAA personnel aboard — shaving cream, razor blades and drinking glasses — and, for the wives, lipstick.
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Updike Heads March Of Dimes Drive
The annual March of Dimes drive, with George Updike, Service Supervis.or, as chairman, is now in progress at NBA.
President Juan Trippe, who is serving on the National Committee, is anxious that PAA have a worthwhile showing.
The growing need for the treatment of infantile paralysis in our city has greatly increased the financial requirements of the New York Chapter. This year they are called upon to maintain and supervise an entire floor, newly acquired, in the Knickerbocker Hospital. This floor, equipped with the most modern appliances and adequately staffed with specially trained physicians and nurses, is to be used exclusively for the treatment and care of paralysis victims.
Your coordinator will be around to see you this week. Give generously.
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