Clipper, Vol. 12, No. 11, November 1955

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VOL 12, No. 11
Pan American
NOVEMBER 1955
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irst Again With Jets
HERALDS JET AGE . . . The new Boeing 707 jet transport, purchased by PAA, that will cruise above the weather at 575 miles per hour cutting in half present air time between the major cities of the world. It will carry 104 passengers, first class, 125 tourist class. First delivery will be made in December 1958.

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Morrison Looks South To Markets
Latin America is destined to be “one of the most economically powerful areas of the world” in the opinion of Wilbur L. Morrison, executive vice president, LAD.
“Today the population of those lands south of the border is just about equal that of the United States and Canada,” he pointed out to diplomats and business leaders attending a banquet of the recently organized Midwest International Trade Development Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
“With the rate of growth continuing to increase steadily, another generation or so will see their population double ours. With their standard of living and income rising steadily, Latin America in our time will become as rich a market as is to be found anywhere in the world.”
But American private enterprise must recognize challenges as well as chances in the field of inter-American trade relations, according to Morrison.
Among other things, the PAA executive pointed out, a number of European nations are making increasingly strong bids for a good share of the Latin American business.
North American businessmen must correct some of their own misconceptions, Morrison declared. He cited a widely held belief that Latin Americans “are a poor busi-
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Jet Story Makes Page One In Hemisphere Newspapers
Announcement that Pan American World Airways has placed orders totaling $269,000,000 for 45 Douglas and Boeing jet airliners—the most important news developed in aviation history—was a top front page story in the hemisphere’s press.
In most New York City newspapers, the story occupied the lead position on the front page. The New York Times also discussd the Pan American orders—the first firm commitment by any airline to purchase U. S. jet aircraft—in its lead editorial. Television and radio newscasters and commentators gave the story top billing on national networks and local stations.
How this news impressed editors is indicated in a display shown elsewhere in this issue of the Clipper.
JUAN T. TRIPPE, third from left, president of PAA, accepts gavel upon being installed president of the International Air Transport Association at its annual meeting in New York. The presentation is made by Max Hymans, outgoing head of IATA and president of Air France. Looking on are, left, Ross Rizley, U.S. CAB chairman and standing at right, Sir William P. Hildred, director general of IATA.
Trippe Sees Mass Air Travel Influencing World’s Peace
Mass air tourist travel between nations can exert a more decisive influence on the world’s fate than atom bombs, Juan T. Trippe, president of Pan American World Airways, told delegates to the International Air Transport
^Association’s 11th annual general meeting now underway in New York. Mr. Trippe, the new president of IATA, said that “the tourist plane and the bomber for years have been racing each other toward a photo finish.
“In my opinion, however, the tourist plane, if allowed to move forward unshackled by political boundaries and economic restrictions, will win this ‘race between education and catastrophe,’ ” he said.
“Mass travel by air may prove to be more significant to world destiny than the atom bomb. For there can be no atom bomb potentially more powerful than the air tourist, charged with curiosity, enthusiasm and good will, who can roam the four corners of the world, meeting in friendship and understanding the people of other nations and
Paying tribute to the role IATA has played in the 35-year history of scheduled air transportation, Mr. Trippe said that the organization Continued on Page 3
Delivery of 707’s To Start in 1958; DC-8’s to Follow
Arrival of the jet transport age, for ten years a matter of speculation, no longer is in doubt. The first contracts for purchase of U.S.-built jet passenger planes by an American airline has been signed by Pan American World Airways.
President Juan T. Trippe said the board of directors has approved acquisition of 45 jet airliners for $269,000,000 from -----------------	----^Hoping- Airplane Company,
What They Say
PAA, Trippe Commended For Jet Plan
Purchase of 45 jet transports by Pan American was warmly praised by civic and high government leaders and the press. Their comments :
Bernard M. Baruch, elder statesman — “I’m glad to witness a plan of this magnitude. It is not only important that other people understand us but equally important that we understand them. Pan American’s new fleet of commercial airplanes helps to bring this about by making us all nearer neighbors. Better understanding will make toward peace—the greatest blessing that could come to the world.
“I congratulate my personal friend, Juan Trippe, and his associates, who have pioneered air service over the major oceans. Well done.”
Vice President Richard M. Nixon
—“The purchase of the jets is a tremendous step forward. It is gratifying to know that this country is soon to be in the jet transport age, not only as respects equipment, but as respects manufacturing as well.”
Sinclair Weeks, U. S. secretary of commerce—“The announcement that Pan American has placed orders with Boeing, Douglas and Pratt and Whitney for $269,000,-000 worth of jet transport air-Continued on Page 3
of Seattle, Washington, and Douglas Aircraft Company, of Santa Monica, California.
Twenty Boeing 707’s will be delivered between December 1958 and November 1959, Trippe said. Delivery of 25 Douglas DC-8 jet Clippers is scheduled to start in December 1959 and be completed in January 1961.
A substantial number of the Boeing planes will be the first U.S.-built jet transports to go into regular commercial service. They will operate on all of PAA’s overseas routes, and will be the largest and fastest transports in trans-ocean service. When delivery is completed in 1961, PAA’s Clipper fleet capacity will be doubled.
Both the DC-8’s and the 707’s will have a cruising speed of 575 miles per hour at 30,000 feet. The Clippers will provide a new high standard of speed and passenger comfort. Vibration and noise by propellers will be eliminated. Only in the after part of the cabin will the sound of the Pratt and Whitney jet turbine engines be audible. Cruising altitude will be above the weather. The cabins will be pressurized and the planes equipped with 'radar, as are present Clippers.
Ground noise also will be lessened by jet turbine silencers. The new jets will make little more noise on the ground than present piston-engined planes, Trippe said. Reverse thrust mechanisms, fitted to the jet turbine engines, will act as brakes after landing just as reversible propellers do now.
The new Douglas jet Clippers will carry 108 passengers first class with standard seating for 131 tourist class passengers. The Boeings
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Jet Age Timetable
For a Shrinking World