Clipper, Vol. 18, No. 6, September 1959

              Volume 18
SEPTEMBER, 1959
Number 6
FIRST ENGINE to be processed through our new Jet Engine Overhaul Facility at Idlewild is shown entering the structure, which is adjacent to Pan Am’s Hangar 14.
PA A Orders Cargo Prop-Jets
Pan American has ordered 12 special long-range Lockheed 207 propjet air freighters at a cost, including spares, of $60,000,000.
The new 115-ton cargo aircraft will be powered by four
General Motors-built Allison
propjet engines each of 6,500 horsepower. With continued development support by the Government for the engine as well as development support for the airframe, deliveries are scheduled for early 1962.
The special Lockheed 207, incorporating added range to meet Pan American specifications, can operate nonstop in either direction across the Atlantic carrying a 35-ton payload. The new propjet will have four times the work capacity of the Company’s largest piston-engine cargo aircraft.
“The low ton-mile cost of Pan American’s new cargo fleet,” President Juan T. Trippe said in announcing the purchase order, “should permit cutting nearly in half most overseas cargo and mail rates. This would permit the Post Office Department to move ordinary mail, without airmail surcharge, throughout the world and at a substantial profit. It would also permit half of our overseas parcel post to move by air. Equally important, U. S. magazines and
VP Election
By Executive Memorandum, President Juan T. Trippe has announced the election of Mr. Roger Lewis as Executive Vice President — Administration; Mr. John C. Leslie as Vice President and Assistant to the President; and Mr. John B. Gates as Vice President — Development.
newspapers — so useful in the cold war in selling abroad our country’s way of life — could be delivered at low cost anywhere in the world by air.
“The development of new cargo business on a volume scale,” Mr. Trippe continued, “will permit retention of many skilled Pan American personnel who otherwise would be displaced as a result of the technological impact of the jet age.”
Its ability to land on runways as short as 4,000 feet, its truck-bed loading, its long range and great capacity, combine to make the Pan American propjet cargo fleet a useful reserve to the Armed Forces.
Furthermore, the long-term precedent-making contracts recently signed with the seven International Unions, representing all organized Pan American personnel, in the air and on the ground, assure the Armed Services that any military cargo and personnel entrusted to the Company will be transported without delay or interruption — even though civilian services were suspended as a result of a possible labor dispute and work stoppage in the future.
Meanwhile, the Company has awarded a contract for approximately $2,800,000 to Lockheed Aircraft Service, Inc., for conversion of 10 DC-7C’s to cargo aircraft with an option for conversion of an additional 10 aircraft of the same type. The conversion program is scheduled to start in September, 1959.
A DC-7C Cargo Clipper will carry 16 tons on a transatlantic (Continued on Page 10)
Add Six Cities To Jet Routes
Six additional cities in Europe will receive Jet Clipper service beginning October 25. Our Fall schedules, which go into effect on that date, include Jet Clipper flights to Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Amsterdam, Brussels, Hamburg and Copenhagen, in addition to London, Paris and Rome, the cities now being served by our Boeing Jets.
AD's Jets To Be All-321 by Dec.
By early December, the Atlantic Division’s Jet Clipper Fleet will consist entirely of long-range Boeing 707-321 Intercontinentals. And, by the end of the year, Pan American will have a fleet of 16 Jet Clippers, linking the continents at
the tempo demonstrated by the first Intercontinental Jet Clipper which set a record between New York and Moscow.
Current planning indicates that as Boeing 707-321 aircraft are delivered to the Division and necessary training is accomplished, the long-range Jet Clippers will replace the 707-121’s we are currently operating, releasing the shorter-range aircraft to operate additional Latin American Division flights. The 707-121’s will also be utilized to operate National Airlines’ service to Miami, similar to last winter, which resumes on November 1.
Three Intercontinentals have already been delivered to the Company, two of which have been assigned to the Pacific-Alaska Division, and the third to the Atlantic Division.
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System Plans Jet Utilization
Since optimum efficiency requires complete inter-Division coordination on jet aircraft scheduling and maintenance, route assignment priority as well as these items will be considered at meetings of the System Operations Committee. This System Operations Committee has been reconstituted to include the President as Chairman, and:
Mr. Roger Lewis, Executive Vice President — Administration, who will serve as Chairman in absence of the President;
Mr. Wilbur Morrison, Executive Vice President — Latin American Division;
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The new schedule calls for 48 transatlantic jet flights per week, the same number we’ve been operating during the peak summer season.
Starting September 14, Atlantic Division Jet Clipper flights will have a seating configuration of 36 deluxe and 77 economy — 113 seats compared to the 111-seat configuration utilized since we inaugurated jet service nearly a year ago.
Daylight and overnight Jet Clipper flights daily from New York to London, and morning and late afternoon departures from London to New York are included in the new schedule.
The daily daylight flight from New York to London will be Jet Flight 100, which will depart Idlewild at 10 A.M., arriving LON at 9:25 P.M. (All times local.) Three days weekly, Flight 100 will continue on from London to Hamburg and Copenhagen. On the other four days, it will terminate at Düsseldorf, operating on two of these days via Amsterdam, and via Brussels on the remaining two days. Arrival times of Jet Clippers in these cities beyond London will be shortly after midnight.
The second daily flight to London will be Round-the-World (Continued on Page 10)
DIVISION MANAGER John Shannon casts an admiring eye at the new Jet Age stewardess uniform at its recent introduction to the New York press at the East Side Terminal Clipper Club. Modeling the various parts of the whole uniform were the four stewardesses who flew on our Intercontinental Jet Clipper press flight to Moscow. Left to right are Betty Ganz, showing the jacket and skirt; Marcia Egan, wearing the pale blue smock over the uniform; Carol-Ann Larson, modeling the new cap, topcoat and handbag, and Georgia Meier, displaying the overblouse, belted in the back. Uniform color remains Pan Am blue.