Clipper, December 6, 1945

              DECEMBER 6, 1945
ATLANTIC DIVISION
Copyright by Pan American Airways, Inc.
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Gregor Talks To Foremen’s Club
At the November 20 meeting of the Supervisors’ Forum, the members and their guests heard Pete Gregor, Shop Superintendent, discuss “What PAA Expects of Its Supervisors.” Gregor said that PAA expected its foremen to be good managers of people because the foreman’s job is to obtain efficient operations through the capable management of people. PAA, like any other company, needed efficient operations in order to meet future competition.
Gregor frankly stated that a foreman’s job is a difficult one but a good foreman, a good supervisor, or a good manager was one who continually tried to do a better job. Foremen and supervisors could do a better job by having periodic meetings and discussions of their mutual problems, by trying to learn as much as possible about their own jobs and related jobs, by training capable assistants, and by continually asking “why.”
In the business meeting preceding Gregor’s talk, Gus Wunder was elected Chairman of the Forum to fill the vacancy left by the recent resignation of Charlie Tilton. Jerry Jones of the Program Committee announced that Division Engineer A1 Elebash was scheduled to discuss “Planning” at a future meeting and Assistant Division Traffic Manager Bob Hallett would discuss “Salesmanship” at the December 5 meeting.
PAA Orders Fleet of 20 Stratocruisers
Three PAA Films
Now Available
Employes wishing to secure one of the three Pan American films recently released for showing to clubs, lodges or other groups can secure them by writing to the YMCA Motion Picture Bureau, 347 Madison Ave., New York 17.
The films are “Wings Over Latin America” (40 minutes), “Wings to Alaska” (25 min-ufes) and “Weekend in Bermuda” (15 minutes). They are 16 milliWter color sound pictures. Outside groups can also secure the films in this manner. Shipping costs are the only charge.
A 16 millimeter sound projector must be used with the film, silent projectors not being usable. If you cannot secure one by rental or otherwise, the company has a limited number available. Apply' to George Gardner, Educational Director, Chrysler Building.
Contracts for purchase of 20 Boeing Stratocruisers, the 65-ton, 80-passenger high performance “big brother” of the B-29 Superfortress, were signed recently by PAA. The Stratocruiser is the commercial version of the C-97 army transport which holds the transcontinental speed record for all types of aircraft.
The Stratocruiser is the commercial air transport development of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, the heavy bomber that brought peace to the Pacific and established a world’s record of 8,198 miles by flying non-stop from Guam to Washington, D. C.
First of the postwar airliners to embody full advantages of wartime aeronautical developments, the double-decked Stratocruiser is the only transport airplane capable of flying New York-London non-stop with a full complement of passengers, baggage, mail and express. Stratocruisers with their cruising speed of 340 mph, will, for example, provide eleven and one-half hours service to London and 8 hours and 33 minutes service coast to coast over the trans-continental route for •which we have applied to the Civil Aeronautics Board. Other examples of flying time that could be accomplished by the Stratocruiser are: New York-Buenos Aires, 21 hours, 38 minutes; Seattle-Juneau, Alaska, 3 hours, 12 minutes; San Francisco-Tokyo, 21 hours; San Francisco-Honolulu, 8 hours.
Boeing and PAA officials said the Stratocruiser would “open a new era of global mass transportation of passengers and cargo by air, accomplished at less lost, greater speed, unprecedented comfort and with the highest standard of reliability. The Stratocruiser will make a reality, long-sustained aspirations for placing air transportation within the reach of all persons.”
First of the Stratocruisers will be delivered to us in November, 1946. The planes will permit non-stop flights between the United States and Europe, with full loads. Vice-President Franklin Cledhill said that the planes will be influential in reducing fares. He said that when high frequency schedules are established, a big step could be taken toward our goal of air fares of 3(4 cents a passenger mile. The Stratocruiser can carry a payload of 20 tons, with room for nearly five tons of mail and cargo in the lower of its twin decks.
WARNING ON PARKING
The Police Department has warned that parking in a line down the middle of the parking area in front of the hangar cannot be allowed because it constitutes a fire hazard. Cars parked in this manner will be tagged.
Instead, when the hangar area is filled, cars must be parked in the lot outside American Export. The city maintains jurisdiction over our parking area, since it is a public street, and police rules prevail.
Loaded, the craft will weigh 135,000 pounds and can operate from present airports in large cities here and abroad.
The Stratocruiser’s wing is the same Boeing developed high performance wing which carried thousands of Superfortresses on their Pacific missions. Powered by four Pratt & Whitney, 3,500 horsepower engines, the Stratocruiser has reversible pitch propellers. These may be used as an auxiliary braking force during landings and in taxiing. Thermal antiicing, or a hot air system in wings and control surfaces, will prevent formation of ice. The Stratocruiser will carry a maximum pay-load of 20 tons. Loaded, the airplane weighs 135,000 pounds. Its double-deck arrangement permits a 14-seat lounge on the lower deck, in which the passenger may find snacks and change of environment. The lounge is reached by a circular stairway.
The Stratocruiser will be flown by a crew of three for domestic use and a crew of four or five for transoceanic use. The flight control cabin is the most spacious of any airplane.
There is space available below in two compartments for nearly five tons of mail, cargo and baggage. Lower doors, at convenient truck-bed height, enable cargo to be loaded and unloaded without interfering with passenger ingress or egress.
When Mayor Roger Lapham of San Francisco (left) flew across the Atlantic in June, 1939 on Pan American World Airways’ inaugural passenger flight to Lisbon aboard the Dixie Clipper Commissary Superintendent Bruno Candotti was one of the flight stewards assigned to the trail-blazing feat. Recently the friendship was renewed when Mayor Lapham flew to London aboard a landplane Clipper to invite the United Nations Organization to make his city its headquarters.
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