Pan American air ways, Vol. 1, No. 3, March 15, 1930

              Pan American Air Ways
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Yol. 1, No. 3
122 East 42nd Street, New York City
March 15, 1930
GREAT MEXICAN
AIRPORT TERMINAL
NOW UNDER WAY
P.A.A. Cooperating with Mexican Government in Outstanding Air Development
One of the outstanding airport buildings in the world is under construction on the Mexico City Airport as the result of the cooperation of the Mexican government and Pan American Airways System. The great terminal will house governmental officials, public rooms, provide for Pan American Airways passengers, restaurants, rest rooms, weather and radio offices, and all the business of the busy modern air transportation center.
An impressive curving roadway approaches the building from the highway and a memorial beacon tower crowns the right wing of the terminal. Curious Mexican carvings and decora-(Continued on page eighteen)
FASTER AIR MAIL FROM MIAMI P.A.A. TERMINAL
Inauguration of night air mail service from Miami to Jacksonville and quickened schedules to the middle and far West will increase the value of the Pan American Airways United States Air Mail service in and out of Miami after April first. Planes north from Miami are to relay mail into Chicago the next morning.
OPERATIONS MANAGERS AT MEXICO CITY MAY 1
A meeting of Divisional Operations managers will be held in Mexico City, Mexico, May l-6th. Erwin Balluder will be chairman. R. I. Dunten, Donald Duke, and R. G. Richardson will attend. The meeting will be similar to that of the Divisional Engineers just held at Guatemala City, presided over by W. O. Snyder and attended by R. D. Sundell and Paul De Kuzmik. It lasted from March 5-9th.
37,321 MILES OF AIRWAYS
IN LATIN AMERICAS
The total mileage of airways in Latin America is 37,321 miles, according to the U. S. Department of Commerce. 13,000 miles of this is being flown by the Pan American Airways System, the largest international air transport line in the world.
| Stronger and Stronger j
j Scheduled flying: on Divisions 1, 2 j I and 3 during: January, 1930, totalled ! | as follows: 1,050 flights; 263,617 miles; |
POPOCATEPL MOVIES ARE SPECTACULAR
P.A.A. SUCCESS
Mount Popocatepl, Mexico’s famed volcano, has been filmed in one of the most successful and spectacular sound movies in the world. Paramount camera and sound men flew from Mexico City in Pan American Airways of Mexico Ford tri-motor X-ABCG, Saturday, March 1. New York headquarters of Pan American Airways viewed the films in New York March 4, and the entire world will be seeing them within a few days.
Magnificent cloud conditions prevailed
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Dave Ingalls, Navy Air Head,
Visits P.A.A. at Camaguey
Landing at Pan American Airways Airport at Camaguey, Cuba, the afternoon of March 7th, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, David Ingalls, lunched with personnel at the field and utilized the fueling facilities before continuing flight on the Guantanamo Bay in his Navy Sikorsky. He flew non-stop from Key West to Camaguey in four hours and twenty minutes. Lieutenant Commanders Maloney and Moulton accompanied the secretary. Mr. Ingalls is a Yale man and was America’s only Naval ace in the World War, winning his victories in combat while on special fighting service with the British.
Lindbergh Piloting Panair’s Technical Adviser at Mexico City
ALL DIVISIONS TO
GET PLANES FOR
BLINDED FLYING
P.A.A. Instruction Methods as Developed at Brownsville Said to Excel All Others
All divisions of the Pan American Airways are to receive special airplanes for the instruction of pilots in the operation of aircraft under blinded conditions. The new planes will be based at the Pan American Airways International Airport at Miami and at France Field, Canal Zone. Up to the present, this equipment has been available only at Brownsville, Texas, where it was developed by Pan American Airways, Mexican division.
The P.A.A. course in blinded flying has been studied by leading army and navy experts, and is pronounced by Captain William C. Ocker of the United States Army, an admitted world authority on the subject, to excel any similar method of instruction anywhere. A de-(Continued on page eighteen)
ST. LOUIS TO SALVADOR AIR MAIL WINS TRIBUTE
Speedy air mail service from St. Louis, Missouri, to San Salvador, using the domestic air mail lines and the Pan American Airways System, evoked the following letter of praise of P.A.A. from Armando Frenkel, automobile dealer of San Salvador, dated March 1 and addressed to the local representative of the company : “On Friday, February 21, I sent an order covering a spare part, just out of stock and very urgently required, to a firm in St. Louis, Missouri, via air mail. The spare part ordered in the letter reached San Salvador February 28. I must express my satistaction witn me ex collent service rendered by the P A.A.”
“LONGEST AIR MAIL
LINE IN THE WORLD”
Junius B. Wood has written an illustrated story on “Flying the World’s Longest Air-Mail Route,” in the March issue of the National Geographic Magazine. There are 66 illustrations of Pan American Airways System, operations, planes, airports, and scenes along the route from Buenos Aires to the United States. Wood’s article is based on the special story written for the Chicago Daily News and published by them in pamphlet form last fall.