Clipper, September 6, 1945

              SEBESTYEN + SUGGESTION = $90
Five ideamen w©n $135 in War Bond awards at the last meeting of the Suggestion Committee, with Joseph Sebestyen, of the C-54 Modification Crew, taking the top award of $90.
Joe’s idea was an adaptation of a method used in manufacturing to the overhaul of the B-23s which will cut to nearly one-third the man hours needed for a particular job. Briefly, it was to roll certain shapes into a curved form rather than form them by hand.
Joe thought of the idea while watching two mechanics forming a pair of bulb angles by hand, a task which takes 32 man hours. These angles must be formed to the inside shape of the planes. He suggested adding three rollers to a present machine and rolling the angles, which would require only 12 man hours. The rollers also can be used for any other jobs requiring curved angles.
On the basis of the dollar saving in time on the operation, the committee voted the $90 award after Gus Wunder, Chief of the Metal Shop, had reported that the rollers had been put successfully into use. Acting Shop Supt. Charlie Tilton remarked: “This is a good idea —of the type we need.”
Speeds Prop Overhaul
The second high award, of $25, went to Frank Cittadino of the Machine Shop for a method of speeding overhaul on the prop domes — the huge central mechanisms of the propellers for Boeings and C-54s. Frank’s idea saves a man hour each time the domes are sanded and abrasions removed, or a total of 25 man hours a month.
Previously the domes were connected by a
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244 Years of Service As 70 Receive Pins
Two hundred and forty-four years of service with PAA were celebrated during the month of August by personnel of the Atlantic Division and A-O. Forty-seven AD’s received three year citations and eight were awarded their pins for five years of service. In the A-0 Division, nine received three-year pins and six their five year emblems.
Three who had not previously received three-year pins, though eligible, also got pins. They are Jack Down, Traffic, employed May 11, 1942; Warner Lyle, Operations, employed Feb. 28, 1942: and Rodney Dalton, Accounting, employed June 23, 1941 but who has been on a leave of absence since before his third anniversary with the company. .
Atlantic personnel receiving five-year pins
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strap io a small motor, which stopped when pressure was applied and which did not hold the dome steady to work on. Frank suggested that the large lathe in the Machine Shop next door be used for this operation since it would overcome these disadvantages.
Grant K. Bell of the Metal Shop received $5 in War Stamps for his suggestion that drill boards attached to all work benches to be used when drilling, thus overcoming damage to the bench itself.
Earl Doughty, of C-54 Plane Service, was voted $5 for developing two drop lights from discarded radio table lamps to use in the cockpit of the C-54 when working there. This spot has been lacking in good illumination and this
idea does away with the inconvenience of flashlights.
Office Idea Pays Off
A rare office suggestion also received an award when Mary McGoldrick, of Flight Operations, was revealed as winner of $10 for an idea to increase comfort of third floor hangar employees. She noted that hot air from the air conditioner unit in the telephone operator’s room was reaching the third floor hal and suggested it be diverted outside. When it was determined that the cost of installing a duct to carry the hot air outside was prohibitive, an exhaust fan was installed directly above the exhaust duct to suck out the hot air. This went into use early last month.
The Shape of Things to Come
New York’s $200,000,000 Idlewild Airport as it will appear 10 years from today, when the 12 ultimate runways are completed. The tangential runway design, sponsored by the airlines, does away with intersecting runways as on present fields and thus will allow three simultaneous landing and takeoffs — making possible 360 flights an hour. In the center of the 5,000-acre field is the $13,000,000, four-story city administration building and encircling it the $15,000,000 loading arcade, with sufficient space in ifs 15,000-foot length for 102 separate loading gates.
Pan American’s International Terminal will take up the eastern end of the loading arcade, as indicated. It will be located close to the longest runway and to all of the first three to be built—providing an ideal observation point for operations at the field from its rooftop observation deck.
The two huge hangars to be bliilt by Pan American will be at the northwest end of the field on two plots totalling 133 acres. They will provide offiqe space as well as overhaul facilities for the giant 108 and 204-passenger PAA Clippers.
When the permanent administration building is completed, Pan American will take 4,000 square feet on the ground floor and nearly 1,500 square feet in the lobby, including a 50-foot ticket counter.
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