Pan American air ways, Vol. 1, No. 5, April 19, 1930

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Vol. 1, No. 5
VENEZUELA JOINS
PANAIR SYSTEM
BY NEW CONTRACT
Adds 3,000,000 People to 60,000,000 Latins Already Served by Pan American—15-Year Agreement
The government of Venezuela has signed a long term contract for the carriage of international air mails and passengers over the Pan American Airways System, it has been announced by J. T. Trippe, president of Pan American Airways.
The contract will make available three day service between the United States and Venezuela. Service will be begun in the near future connecting at Cristobal, Canal Zone, with the fast seven day air mail service from New York and principal cities of the United States via the Canal Zone and the west coast of South America to and from Buenos Aires. First flights on this latter service will be made between April 25-May 2.
The contract is for an initial period of five years and Pan American Airways has been granted options of renewing for two additional five year periods.
Venezuelan officials investigated the methods of clearance used by the Pan American system in handling international air passengers and the methods of control used by the air transport group so impressed the Venezuelan investigators that the previous prejudice against international air transport was removed. There had been a feeling that regular air passenger services would mean inferior government control as compared with the handling of passengers by steamship and train.
By signing the contract Venezuela (Continued on page thirty)
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U. S. AIR MAIL GOES TO SIXTY-THREE MILLION LATIN - AMERICANS
A tabulation of populations served by the United States air mail routes to Latin American countries shows that more than sixty-three millions of peo-
ple are now on the direct trunk air lines of the Pan American Airways System. The countries aggregate over four million square miles.	Pop.
Per Sq.
Country Population Area Mile
Argentine .....10,904,022	1,153,418	9.2
Bahamas .......... 54,886	4,404	12.4
Chile ......... 4,364,395	281,820	15.4
Colombia ...... 8,000,000	482,400	16.4
Costa Rica ...	471,521	23,005	20.4
Cuba .......... 3,418.033	44,164	77.4
Dominican
Republic ....	897,405	19,325	45.9
Ecuador ........ 1,500,000	118,627	12.6
Guatemala ....	2,119,165	42,353	50.0
Br. Guiana ....	299,839	89,480	3.3
Du. Guiana ...	142,896	54,291	2.6
Haiti ......... 2,300,200	10,204	225.4
Honduras ........ 773,408	46,332	16.6
Br. Honduras..	45,317	8,592	5.2
Leeward Islands 122,242	648	188.6
Mexico ........14,308,753	760,290	18.8
Nicaragua ....	638,119	49,200	12.8
Panama .......... 442,522	33,667	11.9
Peru .......... 5,500,000	533,916	10.5
Salvador ...... 1,610,000	7,225	224.5
Trinidad ........ 365,913	1,862	196.5
Uruguay ....... 1,762,451	72,153	24.4
Venezuela ..... 3,026,818	393,976	7.7
Windward Islands 168,677	516	326.9
Total ......63,236,582 4,231,868
CONFERENCE ON MAY 15th
The conference of operations managers at Mexico City slated for May 1st, has been postponed to May 15th, because of the change in service schedules to South America.
April 19,1930
SEVEN-DAY AIR MAIL FROM CHIEF U. S.
CITIES TO B. A.
Latin American U. S. Air Mail Day April 25th Preceding Departure of First Plane
Latin American United States Air Mail Day will be observed in the major cities of the United States on April 25th, the eve of the departure of the air mail planes from all sections of the United States for the Argentine and Uruguay, inaugurating the long-dreamed of seven day direct flight service to Buenos Aires by the Domestic U. S. Air Mail Contractors and the Pan American Airways System. The first trip will be made April 26-May 2.
Feeding in from every great city in the United States and from Montreal in Canada, the air mail planes will speed the mails from the eastern half of the nation toward Miami, Florida, and from the western half to Brownsville, Texas, whence the Pan American System flies across the Caribbean and down through Mexico and Central America to the Canal Zone and thence down the shorter west coast of South America to Santiago, Chile, and over the Andes to Buenos Aires and the Atlantic shores of Uruguay.
Featuring that inauguration will be the starting of the world’s longest airplane ocean crossing on regular schedule, the 6 A. M. to 6 P. M. flight over the Caribbean between Havana and Cristobal.
Early the morning of April 27th, a Pan American amphibian will leave Havana headed direct for Cape Gracios a Dios on the headlands where the Nicaraguan and Honduranian boundaries meet, six hundred miles distant from Cuba on the northern shores of Central America. With the two pilots will be a radio operator and the United States mails but no passengers. For six hours they will cut their lonely way across the blue Caribbean, navigating, piloting, aided in their position-finding by the radio contacts with the Panair radio stations which circle that vast semitropic sea.
In the tanks of their Pan American Sikorsky will be 475 gallons of gasoline, enough for nine and one-half hours of flying—a reserve of fifty per cent, against the accuracy of their navigating. Once abreast of the cape they will continue along the jungled shore-(Continued on page thirty-one)
First Pan American Passenger from Maracaibo, Venezuela Pilot F. V. Clark is shown in uniform in the center of the picture and on his right is Passenger McMenimen, the first traveler out of Maracaibo on Pan American Airways System. He is vice-president of the Raymond Concrete Pile Company. The Sikorsky is NC-144-M.