Clipper, Vol. 11, No. 8, August 1954

              MEXICO CITY IS NEXT
DOWN PAYMENT of four cocoanuts on PAA’s “travel-now pay-later plan” is made by J. Fred Muggs as he prepared to take off on his trip around the world. Our agents report J. Fred expects to cheat a hit and pick up a lot more
cocoanuts when he gets down into the land of the palms so he can make his second payment. He is winding up his world tour in Mexico, Havana and Puerto Rico in mid-August.
Caracas Cargo Records Topple in Big Campaign
After staging the greatest two-weeks cargo blitz in PA A history
at Caracas, LAD cargo sales chiefs will turn their big guns on San Juan in another history-making siege which will embrace all Puerto Rico from September 20 to October 2.
Directing the battle for Caracas#	---------------------------
cargo was Sydney R. Chichester, LAD cargo sales coordinator, ably assisted by one of the finest blitz teams PAA has ever put into a drive of this kind. When the smoke of the two-weeks’ business blitz had lifted, new records in several lines of attack had been marked up.
The team recorded a total of more than 700 productive calls on Caracas business people which almost doubled the total for the campaign the previous year. During the drive the cargo squad also registered 1,240 “routing orders” where shippers specified PAA facilities. This . was more than double the 550 such successful orders received the previous year.
In addition the team actually sold more than $20,000 worth of passenger travel tickets as they beat the woods for cargo. Numerous good leads were uncovered
for the Universal Air Travel Plan whereby companies establish credit accounts wtih the airline and tickets are issued against credit cards for later payment when billed.
This year representatives from other divisions and cities aided
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LAD and Caracas cargo experts. United States sales was repre sented by Arthur Appleby ana Richard Trainor, New York; Sidney Hanisee, New Orleans and Fred Briscoe, Cleveland. Oskar Dubral, Frankfort, Germany, represented ATL.
Representing LAD were C. Dionisio Villarreal, Colon, and Carlos Van Hoorde, of Panama City; Cito Alvares, San Juan; Chichester, Miami. They were (Please Turn to Page Six)
TURBO-COMPOUND ENGINES
PAA BUYS 15 FOP DELIVERY IN '56
PAA has purchased 15 long-range Douglas DC-7Cs, an improved version of the DC-7B, with deliveries to begin in early 1956. The new Clipper will cruise at 365 miles an hour and have a range of 5,000 miles. The contract total is approximately $33,000,000.
While the new aircraft have# not yet been assigned to specific routes, it is anticipated that some will be assigned to PAA’s longer flights linking Latin America and the U.S.
Preparations for the introduction of the DC-7C to the Clipper fleet already are well under way — even though delivery of the aircraft is still more than a year off.
Rolland E. Stevens, LAD senior procedure coordinator, 'and two maintenance school instructors, Forrest A. Spencer and Howard E. Ballantyne, recently spent nearly a month at the Douglas Aircraft factory in California, studying maintenance procedures on the 7Cs. They are now compiling a manuel for use in training LAD's maintenance force for work on the new Clippers.
iln its new configuration the DC-7C has a wing span of 127 feet, six inches — 10 feet longer than the domestic DC-7 wing. The extra span has been added to the center wing section, It makes available a fuel capacity of 7,860 gallons as compared with the 6,400-gallon capacity of the latest DC-7Bs.
The engines and propellers are located 5 feet further from the fuselage by a wing root exten-
sion. This provides a 70-inch clearance between the propeller tips and the fuselage- and results in a noise level comparable to that of the DC-6B. The vertical stabilizer and rudder has been extended approximately 2 feet in height.
The new plane will be powered by fou.r Wright turbo-compound DA-4 model engines, yielding a total of 13,000 horsepower. The turbo-compound feature employs exhaust gases to provide an additional 20 per cent of power.
The new aircraft structure has been designed for 140,000 pounds take-off, 107,000 pounds for landing. It will be able to carry up to 58 passengers in the standard version, plus baggage, cargo and- mail, with provision for over 1,200 gallons of reserve fuel after flying nonstop for 5,000 miles.
Delivery of the 45th Douglas Super-6 Clipper, the faster, long-range version of the DC-6B, recently completed a $58,000,000 program that has made PAA the largest operator of such planes in the world. The last in a fleet of three DC-6As, the 300-mile-an-hour air freighters used in allcargo service, also has been received.
RACK AT MIAMI after a month’s training course on DC-7C’s at the Douglas factory on the west coast, Howard E. Ballyntine, left, and Forrest A. Spencer, right, both of ground training, flank Rolland E. Stevens, senior procedures coordinator, as they look over the maintenance manual for the big Clippers ordered
by PAA for 1956 delivery.
PAA Earns Aviation Safety Award for Perfect Record
Once again PAA hsa been granted an aviation safety award in recognition of completing the entire year of 1953 without a passenger or crew fatality in scheduled passenger carrying flight operations.
A hand engrossed award plaque was received by PAA President Juan T. Trippe.
“The directors and staff of the National ^Safety Council join me in extending to you and all your people our heartiest congratula-
tions on this fine contribution to safe air transportation”, National Saftey Council President Ned H. Dearborn wrote President Trippe.
The PAA Prexy then wrote to LAD Executive Vice President Wilbur L. Morrison: “Please extend my congratulations to your entire organization, almost every mqmber of which played a part directly or indirectly in the achievement of this award. It will, of course, be a prime objective to go through 1954 with an equally perfect record."
AUGUST 1954
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Pan American World Airways LATIN AMERICAN DIVISION
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Happy Birthday To El Clipper!
The Spanish edition of the Clipper celebrates its third full year of publication with this issue.
It was in August 1951 that the first Spanish edition was published to bring all employes throughout the Latin American Division into closer contact and keep them more fully informed of all activities of PAA and its personnel.
Happy birthday, El Clipper.
(U.S.) yearly in newspaper and magazine advertising, publicity, displays, movies, booklets, posters, television and other promotion. PAA is pouring additional tens of thousands of dollars into
OH, DEAR—OH, DEER—
Millions of new dollars are pouring into Latin American# countries on a rising tide of air travel touched off by PAA’s revolutionary “Fly Now, Pay Later Plan.”
Tapping a vast segment of the United States population which never before traveled abroad, PAA’s credit plan boomed passenger traffic' to Latin America by approximately 20 per cent in June when it first got rolling.	#---—------------------------------
Passengers flying from Miami to Latin America in June numbered 17,460 compared with only 15,145 in May and 12,895 during June a year ago. Similar boosts have been recorded in southbound travel out of other PAA gateways and the trend is still on the upgrade.
The p’an was instituted by PAA on May 1 but it was two weeks or more before all travel agencies received the necessary forms and the public began to respond..
More than $1,000,00 (U.S.) in these credit sales have been made since the program began. A major share of this new business represents travel to Latin America, the most easily accessible foreign vacationland for North Americans. The plan is not yet for sale outside the U.S.
Travel officials predict a record number of vacationists will fly to Latin America this season as thousands more — tourists, business m e n and others — learn of the advantages of paying as little as 10 -per cent down before their flight and the balance in up to 20 months.
The Pay Later Plan represents another major step in Pan American’s long range campaign to increase tourist travel to Latin America for which the airline now spends more than $1,000,000
a program of explaining the new travel plan to millions of North Americans.
Together with PAA’s popular low-cost tourist service introduced six years ago, flying on credit now brings a Latin American vacation within reach of teachers, students, office workers and millions of other middle income North Americans who already are accustomed to instal-(Please Turn to Page Four)
DEAR BABY-SITTERS or they might be deer baby-sitters, it’s all in the way you look at it. Anyway Donna Renuart, left, and Gale Sanders are enjoying their little extra-curricular chore of feeding four Nicaraguan deer babies or deer dears or — aw heck — the little animals are getting a swig of milk on their Clipper trip to Ciudad Trujillo. Donna and Gale are LAD secrekiries at Miami Terminal.