Clipper, Vol. 8, No. 7, July 1951

              “Moral Re-Armament is the ordinary man’s opportunity to remake the world.”
—Dr. Frank Buchman
VOL. 8 —No. 7
JULY, 1951
“Where everybody cares enough, and everybody shares enough, everybody has enough.”—MRA slogan
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Panama to Become One of Key Points in LAD
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22 Per Cent Increase In Travel So Far In 1951
New Clipper travel records have been established on the San Juan-New York route for five successive months, traffic figures compiled by PAA reveal.
A total of 57,365 passengers traveled between the two cities by PAA from January through May —22 per cent more than during the same five-month period last year.
Traffic over the route each month this year has been considerably ahead of the volume for the corresponding month of 1950.
June travel between the two points was expected to hit an all-time high of 17,000 passengers.
So heavy has the traffic become that Pan American is planning to increase the service from 43 to 52 northbound flights each week.
PAA Traffic Reaches High Mark of Year
July Fourth travel and the beginning of the Latin American vacation season combined to give Pan American World Airways’ Latin American Division its best seven-day traffic volume of the year.
Traffic compilations show PAA Clippers flew 18,589,611 passenger-miles during the week ending July 5. This compares to 16,066,516 passenger-miles for the preceding seven-day period and 14,726,491 for the corresponding week in 1950.
Clipper cargo is keeping pace with this year’s increasing passenger travel. A total of 344,815 pounds was carried by PAA out of Miami for the week ending July 5, compared to 269,119 pounds the same week last year.
Caracas Post To Hawkinson
Ernest S. Hawkinson is the newly appointed District Traffic and Sales Manager for PAA in Caracas, Venezuela.
Joining PAA in 1943 as a Baggage Clerk at Miami, Hawkinson was Passenger Traffic Manager in Miami from 1944 to 1945, when he was sent to Caracas as District Traffic Superintendent.
He rejoined PAA recently after spending four years as manager of the Valle Arriba Golf Club in Caracas.
He replaces J. Marshal Sinclair who is being transferred to a new post in Havana.
He married the former Miss Jeanette Druhe of Randolph, Nebraska, in Miami in 1948 and they have a daughter, Wendy Joan, 18-months-old.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Hawkinson, reside at 3308 Mc-donald Street in Coconut Grove.
“AN IDEA TAKES WINGS,” the story of Moral Re-Armament in Miami, is really going to “take wing.” Pilots representing PAA, EAL and NAL gather in the office of Miami Mayor William Wolfarth to receive copies of the MRA booklet which they will distribute to the mayors of all the cities to which each airline flies. LAD pilots will deliver the booklet, along with a letter from Mayor Wolfarth, to his counterpart in 45 Latin American cities served by PAA. Left to right, Capt. William Babbitt, EAL, regional vice president of the ALPA; J. Donachie, EAL Steward; G. Monti, EAL Purser; Capt. E. Ferguson, NAL; First Officers A1 Bisson and Richard C. Morrisey, PAA; Capt. S. Stoia, NAL; Capt. TTrLang, EAL, dTuTPAArCaptains Henry G. Evans and Gilbert Knowles. Seated, Mayor Wolfarth.
DC-4 Clippers Set New Kind of Record
For the first time in the memory of oldtimers, every LAD DC-4 was hard at work Sunday, June 17. Not one of the 20 big Clippers was in the hangars or parked on the ramp at Miami.
SALES CONTEST WINNER Roberto Acker, and his pretty wife board 503 at Guatemala City for a trip to Costa Rica. Acker was the lucky man in the April sales contest at the Guatemala station.
Second in Series
Engines for PAA Job
Of COB Crew in Miami
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Key to the dependable power plants that drive PAA’s Clippers ’round the globe, is the world’s largest and most modernly equipped airline maintenance shops. LADers call it “COB.”
Established in Miami in 1948/ when PAA decided to centralize its world-wide mechanical service in Miami, COB is tHe central point where 85 to 100 aircraft engines, that power our large Clippers, go through periodic overhaul.
Center of COB is the sprawling engine overhaul building, whose seven acres of floor space could accommodate five full-fledged football fields and a couple of tènnis courts.
Pictures on Page 8
Engines from all of PAA’s larger Clippers — the DC-4, DC-6, Constellation, Convair and Boeing “Strato” Clipper— get their major overhaul there.
After removal from a Clipper, the “power egg” is completely disassembled down to the last nut and bolt. Accessories such as oil tanks, propellers, pumps and electrical equipment go to another building while the engine components begin their 900-foot journey through overhaul, with separate production lines for the four different sized Clipper engines.
Directing this vital operation is genial John J. Tigert, Component Overhaul Superintendent, and a staff of top-flight engineers.
In the overhaul section alone, there are 400 men and women whose jobs range from cleaning the disassembled engines to repairing, electroplating, inspecting and reassembling the power units.
Their responsibility does not end until the engine has gone to the nearby engine test cell building for run-up. If it passes the test,
and it usually does, the unit then goes into the spare engine pool, ready to go back to work.
Pride in their jobs, their sweat and ingenuity is a saga in itself of the dependable service “their engines” provide the hundreds of thousands of passengers who annually fly ’round the globe on PAA-powered - wings.
Curacao Wins First Place In Sales Drive
Curacao, with 205.9 per cent of quota, is the winner of the June sales contest for LAD stations in the Caribbean area.
Port-au-Prince, with 186.9 per cent, ran a close second and Kingston, with 176.7 per cent, was third in the month-long battle for business.
Other stations competing for prizes in the sales drive were Port of Spain, Trinidad; and Ciudad Trujillo, who finished fifth and fourth, respectively.
Total sales for the month by the competing stations reached $377,-807, or 150.4 per cent of quota, and brought from Division officials in Miami plaudits for all who took part.
Sales of three group travel tickets in one week brought Curacao the top prize.
Prizes are to be distributed at award dinners planned for late in July at all winning stations.
18 Pilots Will Man
Air Base
Capt. David Desmond To Head Up New Sector
Panama will become one of PAA’s key operating bases in Latin America August 1 with the transfer there of 18 captains and first officers.
The pilots will fly PAA’s DC-3-type Clippers through Central -America between Panama and Guatemala City. The DC-3s, smallest aircraft operated by Pan American, are the only Clippers that can land and take off at some of the small Central American airports.
Their flight crews at present arebasedat Miami and must be ferried to Panama on other flights to go to work.
Chief pilot of the new sector will be Capt. Capt. Desmond David G. Desmond, whose headquarters will continue to be at Miami, where he also is Sector Chief Pilot.
Panama joins Miami, Houston, New Orleans, New York and Rio de Janeiro as pilot bases in PAA’s Latin American Division.
Nine Clipper First Officers are being promoted to Captains as they are transferred to the new base. They are Jack D. Hudson of Miami; Charles C. Driver, New Orleans; Woods K. Rawlinson, Houston; Eugene B. Rricks, John A. Disbrow, Archie 0. Mills, Robert L. Lewis, San Francisco, and Har-lon D. Buettner and Lewis A. Penn, Jr., Rio de Janeiro.
Four of their First Officers have been assigned to date. They are Harold D. Barnes and Robert A. Whitaker, who have been Junior Station Managers stationed in Panama, and J. W. Warren and R. Q. Kelly, who are being transferred from the Pacific-Alaska Division.
25-Cent Dividend Declared By PAA
The directors of PAA have declared a dividend of 25 cents per share, payable August 6, to stockholders of record at the close of business on July 20.
This is the thirty-first dividend paid by Pan American, and since 1941 a dividend has been paid each year.
Long Illness Fatal To William Stewart
William Stewart, 48, a Stock Clerk at COB, died after a long illness June 19 in Miami. Stewart, who had resided in Miami for 12 years, had been a PAA employe since 1945. His body was flown to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for funeral services and burial. He leaves a sister, Mrs. Marylee Shoaf of Winston-Salem.