Clipper, Vol. 3, No. 8, May 1946

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Copyright, 19U6, by Pan American Airways, Inc.
MAY, 1946
Records A-Tumbling Down As DC-4 Goes Into Action
Elwood J. Leep
and a top cruising
Three aerial records were broken in rapid succession when a Pan American four-engined Clipper made a special flight to Caracas, Venezuela, and returned via Miami to New York City.
The first PAA Douglas DC-4 to fly to the Venezeulan capital, it made the 1,518 mile trip in a record-breaking six-hour and 47-minute non-stop flight from Miami. Carry ing a group of 40 construction company employees enroute tc New York City, giant Clipper, piloted by Capt. Elwood J.
Leep, made the trip to Miami in hours and 56 minutes.
Almost an hour’s was cut fx-om the vious record by big Clipper whose four 1,450-horsepower engines give it an operational cruising range of 3,610 miles speed of 280 miles per hour.
Stopping in Miami only long enough to change crews, clear customs and refuel, the plane took off for New York. It made the trip in four hours and 28 minutes, a new commercial air transport record.
Total elapsed flying time from the South American City to New York was 10 hours and 24 minutes Capt. Edgar R. Camp piloted the DC-4 on Miami-New York run.
The record breaking flights serve to emphasize the manner in which new post-war Clippers are shrinking distances. The giant Clipper is one of four DC-4s being operated by PAA on its key trans-Caribbean routes. Twenty-four more of the luxurious four-engined landplanes, which will be equip-passengers or six and air-express, are being delivered to the airline within the next few months for use in Latin America.
Edgar R. Camp
ped to carry 55 one-half tons of
Record Day Established By Easter Holiday Crowd
Easter holiday crowds took to the air by the hundreds Sunday, April 21, to set a new one-day travel record between Cuba and the United States by Pan American Clippers.
A total of 1,009 passengers were flown back and forth between Havana and Miami during the day to top by nine the previous one-day’s total of 1,000 set on Feb. 24. Clippers, both twin-engined and four-engined, covered the 210 mile stretch between Florida and the Cuban capital 52 times during the day.
ADDITIONAL CLIPPER SCHEDULES IN EFFECT
To accomodate the increasing volume of passengers and air-express traveling to Panama, Jamaica and key Central American aerial forts. Pan American has again increased its Clipper schedules.
The new schedules include twice daily flights between Balboa and David and daily flights between Balboa and Medellin. The Balboa-David schedule adds a new ! daily afternoon round trip flight from Balboa to the resort city, leaving Balboa at 2:00 p.m. and arriving at David at 3:25 p.m., and leaving David on the return trip at 3:40 p.m., arriving in Balboa at 5:10 p. m.
The new flight is in addition to the for-mer one daily flight between the two cities, which remains unchanged, with one plane i leaving Balboa daily at 6:00 a. m. for the 90-minute flight to David, and leaving David at 2 :45 p.m. for the return trip.
David has become increasingly popular as a resort city and a weekend vacation spot for Panamanians, with the result that traffic over the 200-mile aerial route has become increasingly heavy in recent months. By doubling, the service over this route, PAA has increased its passenger and cargo capacity to afford seats for 84 passengers daily between the two cities.
In addition, UMCA, an affiliate of Pan American, has increased its flights between Balboa and Medellin from five per week to a daily basis.
Two of these flights stop at Turbo, while the other five fly non-stop between Balboa and Medellin. The two new flights, on Mondays and Thursdays, operate on the same schedules as the other five flights.
Due to the increasing demand for travel between Jamaica and Florida, two extra flights per week have been added to Clipper schedules, between Kingston and Miami.
Although Kingston is a regular stop on PAA’s “through” flights from Florida to South America, these planes are frequently filled with passengers making the entire journey between North and South America. The extra flights, for this reason, are designed to serve the increasing number of passengers traveling only between Jamaica and Florida, or returning to Jamaica from the United States.
The increased frequency of this schedule affords Jamaica three local flights weekly in both directions between Kingston and Miami, with one stop at Camaguey, Cuba.
In addition, the big 33-passenger Strato-cruisers which fly PAA’s route between Miami and Barranquilla, Columbia, will continue to «top at Kingston four times Continued on Page 7
Did You Know That
Pan American World Airways has worked out a program with Republic Aviation Corporation for the production of a fleet of up to 18 Rainbow-type Clippers? This is three times as many of these lightning-fast aircraft as had been scheduled in a preliminary production plan entered into last October.
Veteran Pan American Flyer Heads Operations
After thirteen years of flying for Pan American in almost every corner of the globe, Capt. Oliver J. Studeman has been named operations manager of PAA’s largest sector, the Latin American Division.
With the invaluable experience gained in his years of global flying, Capt. Studeman has the tremendous job of keeping PAA’s fleet of Clippers flying round-the-clock in Latin American skies. Under his supervision come not only the operation and maintenance of the planes, but also the airports, the myriad radio and weather stations, the navigational aids and communications facilities along an entire network that stretches more than 50,000 miles through Latin America.
The enormity of this task, which he Oliver J. Studeman directs frpm PAA’s Latin American headquarters in Miami, is illustrated by the fact that approximately 10,000 miles separate the most-distant point in this far-flying network. Flying an average 8 hours a day, it would require more than two months to visit all the airports encompassed in PAA’s Latin American system.
Prior to coming to the Latin American Division, Capt. Studeman had served as operations manager of PAA’s Pacific-Alas-ka Division, which includes the Clipper routes to Australasia and the Orient as well as the Arctic routes connecting the United States with Alaska and the Northwest.
A veteran of more than 9,000 hours in the air, Capt. Studeman helped survey and map out many of Pan American’s pioneer routes in Central and South America. He played a major part in helping open up the difficult routes through the frozen wastes of Alaska and the barren northwest territory. It was his plane which made one of the first survey flights for PAA Continued on Page 8
What, No, Which Time Is It?
The inaguration of Daylight Saving Time brought a little more than some confusion to many PAA’ers in New Orleans and Miami. Setting the clock one hour ahead at 2 a.m. April 28 cheated some of them out of an hour’s sleep though it means an hour more sun in the evening.
For those who already deal in Greenwich time, twenty-four hour time, as well as Eastern Standard Time, it simply means more time on their hands.
Because on line stations will not be affected by the Daylight Saving all flights continue to operate on the same Greenwich time schedules. In New Orleans flights will be scheduled on timetables in Central Standard Time and in Miami on Eastern Standard time.