Clipper, Vol. 3, No. 12, September 1946

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LATIN AMERICAN DIVISION
VOL. 3—NO. 12
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Copyright, 19U6, by Pan American Airways, Inc.
SEPTEMBER, 1946
Dub Gracy, left, and Sandy Deas, Pan American World Airways softball pitchers, hold a huge trophy presented by the Vedado Tennis Club of Havana, Cuba, after the Clipper team had defeated the Vedado outfit, national champions, two out of three games in the Cuban capital early in August. The series is hoped to be held annually with games to be played in both Miami and Havana. (See other pictures on page three)
PAA Clippers Win District Softball Championship
Pan American World Airways’ South Florida District softball chamions, sparked by the regular no-hit hurling of Sandy Deas, whetted their spikes for new conquests last week as they returned to Miami to find themselves seeded Number one in the district Golf Ball Softball tournament.
The Clipper team ran roughshod over everything in South Florida to annex the district title virtually without opposition, but went to Panama City, Fla., for the Florida State tournament and wound up Continued on Page 8
PAA PLANE, PASSENGER CAPACITY EXPANSION HITS NEW LAD RECORD FOR 30-DAY PERIOD
Inauguration Thursday, August 1, of three new flight schedules out of Miami and a new service between New York and Puerto Rico climaxed a month’s expansion in new planes and passenger capacity unequalled during any 30-day period in Pan American World Airways’ 19-year history.^
Four-engined Clippers going into service through August 20th swell to 22 the number of the big 55-passenger sky giants placed in operation on Latin American routes, Wilbur L. Morrison, PAA vice president in charge of Latin American operations, announced.
The new four-engined planes replaced 21-passenger, twin-engined transports on approximately 12,000 route miles during the month, adding more than 600 seats daily to PAA’s passenger capacity and almost trebling capacity over several key routes.
New Schadules
New schedules going into effect included a second daily four-engined service between Miami and Puerto Rico, with stops at Ca-maguey, Cuba, and Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic. This service supplements daily Miami-San Juan non-stop flights inaugurated more than four months ago and brings four-engined Clipper service to the Dominican Republic for the first time.
Flight schedules from Miami to La Guaira, Venezuela, were increased from 24 to 28 weekly, and a new “all-daylight” flight was inaugurated from Miami along PAA’s long-established route down through the heart of Central America to San Jose,
Costa Rica.
At the same time, a third daily four-engined service was initiated between New York and Puerto Rico.
In addition to replacing twin-engined Clippers with four-engined planes on existing routes, an entirely new route—the 1,605-mile direct link between New York and San Juan—was opened with DC-4s on July 1. By the end of the month this service had been increased from daily round-trip flights to six flights daily between the two terminals.
Other new four-engined services initiated during the month included a new 37-hour through flight from New York to Monte-Continued on Page 3
‘Can You Top This’ Yarn Stirs Express-Mail To Letter Writing About Employment Record
If ye editor’s face appears sunburned, don’t be deceived — for it is really just a deep crimson blush.
For that super pinkish glow we can thank none other than Edward Hudak of the Division Express-Mail department at^—~	r ~ 7777 I	^
Coconut Grove. Our hand was called and 1S the result of a little story on Page
your editor was caught red handed as well as red faced.
It appears that the Express-Mail boys have piled up about as many years’ employment for that section as is humanly possible for any office with but five employees. The quintet has a combined total of 77 years and eight months with Pan American World Airways.
All of this, in case you’re interested,
of last month’s Clipper in which the Airways Department challenged department heads to top their employment record.
It was topped—but definitely. Now we ask you, Mr. Department Head, can you top this new record? Or can you even come close to it?
Unheralded Quintet
Hudak, in his letter to Ye Clipper Editor, goes on to say that his department, of Continued on Page 2
22nd DC-4 ARRIVES FOR CUPPER FLEET
Immediate post-war expansion of Pan American’s Latin American Clipper fleet has reached the halfway mark with delivery this week of the 22nd new four-engined Douglas DC-4.
One other Clipper—an all-cargo transport—will be delivered in a few days, winding up the first phase of a 500 per cent expansion program, Wilbur L. Morrison, vice president in charge of Latin American operations, reported.
The second phase of the program begins about the first of October, Morrison stated, with 18 more four-engined Clippers due for delivery during October and November for a total of 41 in the Latin American fleet.
10 August Deliveries
In addition, ten of the new 55-passenger transports were delivered in August to PAA’s Latin American affiliated companies —three to AVIANCA, three to Panagra, and four to Compania Mexicana. One of the planes also went to Panair do Brasil for use while the Constellations are temporarily grounded, but it will rejoin the Latin American fleet as soon as the Constellations are once again flying.
Conversion work on the transports, accomplished at two Douglas factories in California, was completed in record time, Morrison stated. Although brand new Continued on Page 3
FIRST STRATOCRUISER TO JOIN CLIPPER FLEET NAMED ‘FLYING CLOUD’
The first of the huge 80-passenger Clippers to be delivered to Pan American World Airways in the Spring of 1947 will be christened the “Flying Cloud”—becoming the second famous luxury plane owned by PAA to bear that distinguished name.
This ship will replace one of the first three aircraft bought by Pan American for stratosphere flying. The original “Flying Cloud” was based in Miami for years, having only recently been transferred to the Atlantic Division in New York.
The .name is derived from the famed old clipper sailing vessels of the last century that helped pioneer America’s dominant position in world trade—a position which Pan American has carried on in the international aviation world with its now universally known flying Clipper fleet.