Pan American clipper, Vol. 6, No. 42, March 31, 1948

              PAN AMERICAN
ATLANTIC DIVISION
Read on four continents and four islands in between
Volume 6
March 31, 1948
Number 42
JO1 BURG - NEW YORK RECORD ESTABLISHED
Landing the Clipper Empress of the Skies at La Guardia Field on March 22,40 hours, 58 minutes after its departure from Johannesburg,Captain Francis I. Jacobs and his crew set a new record in flying time from the Union of South Africa to New York.
The Clipper this week comes to you in vari-type due to the shutdown of composing rooms in New York.

Captain Jacobs
The new mark shaved seven minutes off the record set by Captain Charles F. Bassett last month.
Carrying 10 passengers, the Empress of the Skies made the 8,734-mile flight by way of Leopoldville, Accra, Dakar, Santa Maria and Gander. The plane was commanded by Captain Stanley L. Doepke on the Jo’ burg-Accra leg and by Captain Arthur 0. Eichler on the run to Santa Maria, where Captain Jacobs took command.
PETE DE REMER WILL BE HONOR GUEST AT DANCE
It will be “Pete de Remer Night” in the Hendrik Hudson Room of the Hotel Roosevelt on May 22, with the retiring president of the PanAm Club as guest of honor at the Club’s spring dance.
Kenny Smith, chairman of the dance reports that reservations for dance tickets may now be made with Jean Foley, Ext. 346. The price of admission will be $1.75 per person, tax included. Sale of tickets will be limited to exactly 500 and all PAA-ers planning to attend the gala affair are advised to make ticket arrangements now.
Don Henry and his orchestra will provide the music for the dance. A feature of the program will be the presentation of the McGuinness Award to the PAA-er who has performed the most distinguished service to his fellow employes.
SOUTH AFRICAN FLIGHT SETS
RECORDS
BOOSTS GOODWILL
(From The Clipper's reporter in Johannesburg comes this account of the special Clipper flight that carried newspaper executives and company officials to South Africa.)
President Juan T. Trippe’s visit to South Africa, which inaugurated the new and faster Clipper service between New York and Johannesburg, wrote six new records into the Union’s tourist history.
1.	Their tour of 3,000 miles in six days was without parellel in this country. No one had ever covered so much South African ground in the same time.
2.	They made the first non-stop flight from Johannes*burg to Capetown and back.
3.	Their flying time for this hop was automatically a new record .
4.	It was also the longest nonstop flight ever made in South Africa.
5.	They set up another record when Capt. C. N. Warren, skipper of the Southern Cross, the Clipper which brought the party to South Africa, flew them from Johannesburg to Capetown, a distance of nearly 800 miles, in 2
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6. Between 3 p.m., Saturday, and 11:15 a.m., Monday, the party travelled from Johannesburg to the Kruger National Park and back; from Johannesburg to Capetown and back; and again from Johannesburg to Capetown - a feat which is likely to remain unequalled for many years.
All this left South Africa rather breathless. Johannesburg’s goodbyes seemed to merge with Capetown’s greetings, and as they left on the last lap of their 11-day trip of 20,000 miles, the Cape Argus couldn’t resist the obvious gag - “that’s the Americans - that was.”
“But,” the Cape Argus went on, “their lightning-like visit has delighted us all as much as we hope it has pleased them. We wish they had been able to stay longer, but American journalists are accustomed to speed and we (Continued on page 4)
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HAIGHT HEADS LGA TRAFFIC
Robert W. Haight has been named a irport traffic superintendent at LaGuardia Field, it is announced by Ray De Haan, station manager.
Mr. Haight was born in Johnstown, Pa . , and went to high school in Alt oona. He was graduated from Robert HâÎÇjht the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1935 with a B.S. degree in business administration. His first job was as a salesman for the Anderson Paper and Twine Company in Altoona.
In April, 1941, Mr. Haight went into the Army as a second lieutenant in the Infantry, stationed at Fort Jack-son, S.C. Later that year, as a first lieutenant, he was assigned to the Bermuda Base Command. In Bermuda, Mr. Haight reports, he had the Army’s choicest assignment and he made the acquaintance of many PAA-ers at that time» In 1944 he was transferred to Camp Blanding, Fla., as a major and in November, 1945 he was separated from the Army in which he now holds a commission as a lieutenant colonel in the Infantry»
Joining Pan American in February, 1946, Mr„ Haight was stationed first at NBA as assistant traffic supervisor, In September of that year he went to London as senior airport traffic supervisor, then was assigned to Shannon in the same capacity» He returned to the US in January»
Mr. Haight is married to the former Margot Louise Peters and they have a son, William Scott, aged 7»
Munich, famed cultural center of southern Germany, is added to the Clipper routes on Sunday, April 4. DC-3 Clippers will be flown twice weekly, Sundays and Wednesdays, from Brussels to Munich via Frankfurt.
On hand at Munich to greet the first Clipper will be Dean E. Rogers, station operations manager, Ernst Wood, sales representative, and Charles J. Bishop, maintenance supervisor. Flights wi 11 land at Riem Airport outside Munich, a modern field operated by the US Army.