Pan American clipper, Vol. 7, No. 10, October 1949

              Volume 7	October, 1949	Number 10
ferred to San Francisco and flew the Clipper routes to Hong Kong and Auckland. As a captain he moved then to the Latin American Division, flying South American routes out of Port of Spain.
Captain Fordyce was assigned to flying boats and the Atlantic Division in 1942. With
Muhlfeld Foresees 1950 Travel Spurt
John Muhlfeld, PAA’s general sales manager, just returned from an extended trip around Europe, reports that this fall may be the beginning of a travel revolution.
“With the impetus of Atlantic winter tourist fares plus the coming Holy Year, we are likely to see the start of an era of mass transportation by air,” he said. “We believe final figures for this year will show an increase in travel of more than 30 per cent. We think next year will show an added increase of at least 30 per cent.
Winter excursion fares, which started October 1, are more than 25 per cent lower than the regular fares and will continue until the end of April. Typical round trip winter fares are listed as follows:
	Winter	Regular
	Fare	Fare
NY - Shannon	$422.70	$570.60
NY - London	466.70	630.00
NY - Paris	493.30	666.00
NY - Lisbon	474.70	640.80
LOFTY VIEWPOINT
From the air, the overseas terminal at LGA, home base for the Atlantic Division, presents a neat and orderly picture, not always evident to an earthbound observer. Captain JIM WYNNE was at the controls of the DC-3 training Clipper when MICHAEL STANLEY, Division photographer, snapped this view. Between shots, they discussed Reading, Pa., the hometown they happen to share.
DOOLE, FORDYCE AND MUELLER
ATTAIN FIFTEEN-YEAR RANKS
the expansion of the wartime Africa-Orient Division, he was sent to Miami in 1944 to serve as assistant chief pilot in command of C-54’s flying to Casablanca, the Middle East and beyond.
In 1945, Captain Fordyce was named assistant chief pilot for the Atlantic Division, in charge of technical studies and developments that led Capt. Fordyce to the placing in service of the Stratocruiser Clippers. He went out to Seattle to accept delivery of the first Stratocruiser assigned to the Atlantic Division, and was in command of the first Stratocruiser crossing of the Atlantic.
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Captain George A. Doole, Jr., Regional director for the Middle East, Assistant Chief Pilot Robert D. Fordyce, and Flight Engineer Officer Robert H. Mueller all complete 15 years with Pan American this month.
Captain Doole, a graduate of the University of Illinois, attended Army Air Force schools at Randolph and Kelley Fields, Texas, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1932. He served ,two years in the Panama Canal Zone and Hawaii before joining Pan American as a junior pilot in 1934 at Brownsville. Within two years he was a senior pilot and assistant to the operations manager and he then transferred to Panama Airways, a PA A affiliate, as operations superintendent.
In 1938-39 Captain Doole took a year’s leave of absence to attend the Graduate School of Business Administration at Harvard, then returned to the Pan American system as chief pilot for A VI-ANCA, the Colombian airline. Joining the Atlantic Division in 1942 he became assistant chief pilot in Capt. Doole charge of personnel.
He was assigned to his present post, with headquarters in Istanbul, in 1946.
Captain Fordyce, one of the first of the Atlantic Division skippers to check out in the Stratocruiser, also joined Pan American at Brownsville in 1934, two years after his graduation from Yale University. In 1936 he trans-
NDH DOES IT AGAIN
With only a hint of pride Max Lessner reports from New Delhi that on September 13 that station completed 12 months of transits without a single station delay, and that on September 21 NDH completed its 300th consecutive transit without a station delay.