Pan American clipper, Vol. 2, No. 20, February 1945

              PAK AMERICAN
ALASKA SECTOR
VOL. 2, No. 20
February, 1945
DOUGLAS SERVICE GROWS
By the middle of this month, the Sector will have four Douglasses in operation, now that conversion work is nearly completed on the two aircraft at Van Nuys, announced Assistant Manager J. V. Roscoe today.
The fifth Douglas cargo ship, still unconverted, has been kept busy flying the Fairbanks-Barrow shuttle.
One Lodestar was delivered to the Navy at Sand Point, January 6; the two remaining Lodestars will be turned over to them this week.
Beginning first of this month, the Douglasses will take over those interior routes formerly flown by the Lodestars: Fair-banks-Nome, Monday, Wednesday, Friday; Fairbanks-Bethel, Saturday.
COME ONE, COME ALL
Combining a business meeting and bingo party, Recreation Club will hold its annual meeting for all members Monday, February 5, in the YWCA, Room 11, between 7:30 and 10:30 p.m.
President Nick Mihailoff will report on the year’s activities. The nomination committee, consisting of chairman Bob Mun-ro, and Haskell Campbell, Dick Tice, Marian Linquist, Harriett (Taylor) Gray, will announce the committee’s recommendations for offices and trustees for 1945. Nominations may also be made by any members present.
Following will be a bingo party and refreshments. Members may bring guests.
HALF-WAY MARK
Fifty percent of all Seattle employees signed up for Recreation Club membership during the first six days of the drive, reports Bob Hallam, chairman. Membership cards for 1945 can still be purchased for $1; contact Hallam in Engineering.
PAA IS BACK IN WAR SERVICE, DOCTORING BATTLE-WEARY ATC PLANES
Alaska Sector is back in war service again—this time handling mechanical repairs on ATC (Air Transport Command) planes.
Chief J. S. Dobson’s highly trained mechanics began their first ATC job on November 15; in two months’ time they have handled nine aircraft, ranging from small Cessnas to a Flying Fortress.
This work is turned out with the minimum delay in order to speed these planes on their assigned missions. From the looks of things, says Dobson, the amount of work will increase, and the hangar crews will be kept on their toes to turn out both their own work and the ATC jobs on schedule.
"It’s good experience for the boys to work on these different types of aircraft,” Dobson said. "Basically, planes are all alike, but the boys have to use their heads and their diagrams to figure out the construction and arrangement of the aircraft parts. That Flying Fortress in here the other day is the first close-up most of us had had of the plane. We fixed it up and sent it out on combat duty again.”
Helen Reynolds, in Chief Dobson’s office and Clipper reporter, is keeping a file on the varied types of aircraft and the home bases from whence they came.
ALASKA-ORIENT HEARING
Sector Traffic Manager Syd Smith and Sector Meteorologist Carol Beamer have just returned from New York, where they assisted in compiling data, arguments and exhibits to be used by Pan American in a hearing by the Civil Aeronautics Board on the Pacific Docket, February 15. This hearing will decide who flies to the Orient after the war and who gets the certificate into Anchorage.
LONG AND SHORT OF IT.—Here we have the two main cogs in our new Army alliance: Chief of Plane Service J. S. DODSON and S/Sgt. MORRIS P. HOLLOWELL, ATC Line Chief.
During the past weeks, the hangar crews have become acquainted with this likable, 6' 5" hunk of G.l. from Missouri, who strides up to our dynamic little man Dobson with a slap on the shoulder and drawls, "Hi ya, 'Shortstack!' How are we coming along?" Dobson tilts his chin, grins back, and the two go off in a huddle to anticipate the completion time of that Army Douglas. Yep, a great pair, everyone agrees.
WORLD WITHOUT BORDERS
Being shown this week at the Orpheum Theatre is the aviation movie, WORLD WITHOUT BORDERS, depicting the history and future of aviation. Featured is Pan American’s projected time table for 1948, showing proposed fares, mileages and global air routes.
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