Clipper, Vol. 13, No. 6, June 1956

              
LATIN AMERICAN DIVISION
GROUND TRAINING PICTURES
. . . Pages 4 and 5
Almost Everyone in Pan American Reads The Clipper
VOL 13, No. 6
MIAMI, FLORIDA, JUNE 1956
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This Chimp Is No Chump
KISSING COUSINS — As long as anthropologists insist it is all in the family, Mr. Cocomo gives Stewardess Jalone Whitehurst a cousinly smootch before boarding a Pan American Clipper for Guatemala City. Cocomo starred in the opening of Central America's first TV station, TG-BOL. Mr. Cocomo has appeared on Miami Station WTVJ. He lives in his own trailer with his owner, Nick Carrado, the magician.
Pilots Will Be Ready
Electronic Flight Simulators To Train Jet Transport Crews
Super-7 Sets Mark On First Nonstop Miami-Paris Flight
Newest PAA Airliner Gives Spectacular Demonstration Of Long-Range Performance
Pan American World Airways’ new intercontinental Super-7 Clippers have taken to the airlanes with a spectacular debut of long-range performances that added new entries to the airline’s series of historic “firsts.”
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Pan American Proposes New Travel Class
Low Fare Service Will Slash Cost 15 to 20 Per Cent
A new low fare air service that would be 15 to 20 per cent less than present tourist rates and 40 to 50 per cent below first class fares, has been proposed by Pan American World Airways.
This third category of overseas fares — an entirely new concept in air travel — would offer important savings to passengers over PAA’s heavily traveled routes such as those between Puerto Rico and New York, and across the Atlantic, subject to approval of the governments concerned.
Thus, Pan American would introduce a system of service matching that of ocean shipping lines — first class, cabin and tourist.
Juan T. Trippe, president of Pan American, said in announcing the proposal that “based on Pan American studies, the number of Americans traveling abroad by air would increase 50 per cent soon after the new low-fare service becomes available.
“Low-fare air service,” he said, “will put over-ocean air travel within the financial reach of 45,-000,000 Americans who now cannot afford foreign travel at the present tariffs. Teachers, students and skilled workers—whether from city or farm, and from all sections of the country—will travel abroad as never before.
“America also will become available for the first time to millions of travelers from other countries,” Mr. Trippe added.
A new low fare between Puerto Rico and New York which will become effective June 20, if approved by the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board, represents the first implementation of Pan American’s program.
The new fare would be $52.50. Present tourist service would become cabin class at $67.50. First class would remain the same at $100 one way and $180 roundtrip.
Differences would be in seat spacing, meals and other amenities. Free meals would be eliminated in the new low fare service but refreshments would be available at passenger expense.
The proposed service would be operated with the same standards of safety and dependability as on Pan American’s first class service.
The Puerto Rico route was the proving ground for original low fare air tourist service, Wilbur L. Morrison, PAA executive vice president in charge of the Latin American Division, pointed out. The first all-tourist flights took off from New York for San Juan on September 24, 1948, launching the concept of mass air transportation. Five months later the number of Continued on Page 2
LAD Wins Award For Safe Flying
Pan American’s Latin American Division, has been presented the 1955 Aviation Safety Award by the Inter-American Safety Council, Inc., for the third successive year.
The citation points out that the division last year recorded a total of 30,274,957 flying miles, with 963,065,000 passenger miles, over a 52,566-mile network of routes without an accident or fatality to passengers or crews.
The division now has chalked up 3,247,587,000 consecutive safe passenger miles.
Electronic flight simulators for training Douglas DC-8 and Boeing 707 jet transport crews have been ordered by Pan American World Airways.
The order, announced by Franklin Gledhill, PAA vice president and Roy T. Hurley, chairman and president of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, manufacturers, calls for delivery by 1958 of one simulator each for the DC-8 and 707 by the electronics division of Curtiss-Wright. The airline has an option on two additional DC-8 and three 707 simulators.
The first two simulators will he delivered six months in advance of the delivery date of the actual jetliners whose flight characteristics they reproduce.
Pan American will be able to train crews in jetliner flying before the jets are received. At the same time, it was announced that the airline is about to take delivery of a Curtiss-Wright simulator for the Douglas DC7C, fastest, longest-range overseas airplane and the most modern of a long line of Douglas piston-engined aircraft.
Electronic flight simulators of this type are constructed around the crew compartments of the aircraft they represent. Flight characteristics of the aircraft, including engine and other aircraft sounds are faithfully reproduced. The pilot is for all practical purposes “flying.” The instructor can present him with problems he may never encounter.
Ice, snow, sleet, malfunction of equipment, and air turbulence can be realistically duplicated.
In addition to training crews more thoroughly and in situations which might be too dangerous to reproduce in actual flight, flight simulators markedly reduce training costs. It is estimated that simulator training for jet crews can be carried out at approximately 10
per cent of the operating costs of the actual airplane.
This is the second time in eight years that Pan American and Curtiss-Wright have pioneered developments in commercial aircraft, crew coordination and training. In 1948-1949, the two companies introduced flight simulation for the first time when Pan American purchased from the company a flight simulator for the Boeing 377 piston-engined Stratocruiser. This simulator, still in use at PAA’s Pacific-Alaska Division headquarters at San Francisco, has been continuously in operation for seven years, training not only Pan American crews but also those of other airlines and the U.S. Air Force.
Cargo Rate Slash to Aid Colon Trade
Booming commercial activity in the Colon Free Trade Zone of Panama will get a new boost from air cargo rate reductions up to 50 per cent inaugurated by Pan American World Airways.
The reductions apply on general cargo from Panama to Central America, and on certain specific commodities from Panama to Miami. The latter rates also apply to Central American points.
The rate slashes were worked out by company cargo officials in line with PAA’s policy of doing all possible to encourage the growth of the Free Trade Zone, Pan American officials said.
Some of the commodities on which reduced tariffs have been ordered are autos, drugs, chemicals, radios, cosmetics, office appliances, electric machinery and household goods.
Largely as the result of business generated through the Free Trade Zone, Colon is one of the major cargo cities on Pan American’s worldwide network. With a population of only 52,000, it stands 12th in total volume of cargo handled among all cities on PAA routes— just behind Paris and ahead of Manila and Havana.
Shipments carried by Cargo Clippers from the Free Trade Zone to all parts of Latin America, Europe and the Far East have brought Colon the distinction of being the first and—to date—only city in PAA’s Latin American Division in which cargo revenue exceeds passenger revenue.
In 1955, some 2,202,450 pounds were dispatched from the Colon Free Trade Zone by Clipper Cargo.
In a single weekend, the Clipper Bostonian made the longest flight ever scheduled by an airline, winging nonstop 4,806 miles from Miami to Paris in just 14 hours and 2 minutes.
Two day later, taking off from Frankfurt, Germany, the proud Clipper set another mark for other aircraft to shoot at by covering 4,060 miles nonstop to New York in 13 hours 15 minutes flying time.
Aboard as witnesses to the demonstration of the Super-7’s ocean-hurdling capabilities were 4 4 frankly - admiring leading press representatives from New England to Florida, 3 officials of the Douglas Aircraft Co., and six PAA representatives. The plane carried a crew of 10 from the Atlantic Division.
Over the whole route, almost equal to halfway around the world, the Clipper Bostonian held to within minutes of its prearranged flight plan.
The Super-7, last of Pan American’s piston-engine Clippers before the advent of jet airliners late in 1958, gave a preview in range of what jet age flying will be like.
Press representatives from Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and other eastern cities were flown to Miami aboard a special flight on May 25. There, joined by Florida newsmen, they boarded the Clipper Bostonian, which had been in Miami undergoing modifications prior to going into regular transatlantic service on June 1.
The Bostonian lifted its wheels off the runway at 3:33 p.m., Miami time, and—with a five-hour “night” intervening — set down at Orly field at 11:35 a.m. Paris time, just five minutes over the planned flight time.
Average flying speed on that leg of the trip was 352 miles per hour and when the Bostonian landed there was still fuel enough in its Continued on Page 6
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HEADED FOR A RECORD — The new DC7C Clipper Bostonian poised at International Airport, Miami, for her nonstop flight to Paris. Guests of Pan American are loading for the historic trip across the Atlantic.
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