Pan American air ways, Vol. 8, No. 6, June 1937

              Volume 8

JUNE— 1937— JULY

No. 6

INAUGURATE ATLANTIC SU R V EY FLIG H TS
NEW SCHEDULES SLASH TIME TO 30 COUNTRIES
Fast
3 1 / 2 D a y S e r v ic e to B u e n o s A ir e s v ia W e s t, to R io v ia E a st C o a s t

"WHERE THE RIVER SHANNON FLOWS"

CLIPPER CREW MAKES PERFECT OCEAN RECORD
3 ,5 0 0 M ile C r o s sin g N e w Y o rk L o n d o n W ith in M in u te s o f T im e S e t

FIRST NIGHT FLYING
D a w n -to -D u sk S e r v ic e A c r o s s C a r ib b e a n t o P a n a m a C anal Z one

BRITISH START SAME
B ig F l y i n g b o a t s o f Im p eria l C r o ss O v e r S im u lta n e o u s ly o n S a m e C o u r se

N EW YORK.— In a pow er­ ful drive to stren g th en A m er­ ica’s aerial leadership and to put a t the command of A m er­ ica’s f o r e i g n commerce the faste st m ail, tra v e l and ship­ ping service b e h i n d th e ir rapidly advancing cam paign to recover the two billion dollar goal fo r inter-A m erican com­ merce which has never been attained since the w orld eco­ nomic upheaval of 1929, the new tim e-tables of the P an Am­ erican A irw ays System outline one of the m ost spectacular schedule advances ever made by any form of tra n sp o rt. Swinging into action schedule speeds and im proved routes upon which engineers have been quietly w orking for n e a r­ ly a y ear, a g rad u a ted series of new schedules w ill com press the trav e l and tra n s p o rt tim e between th e U nited S tates and 34 countries and colonies on a tim e-table th a t w ill b rin g the most d ista n t cap ital of South America as close to New Y ork as the Golden G ate is to G rand Central by the n atio n ’s fa ste st railw ay service. A tw elve-hour s e r v i c e be­ tween Miami and the P anam a Canal Zone. F ly in g tim e to the ten South A m erican capitals reduced by n early a th ird , in m a n y instances. Im p o rtan t increases in schedule freq u en ­ cy, replacem ent of flying equip­ m ent by bigger, fa s te r tr a n s ­ p o rt types on several m ajo r routes. New airw ays to the in terior capitals of South Am­ erica. These are the highlights in th e new schedule of services. E a st Coast, W est Coast, N orth Coast—literally every country and colony south of the U nited S tates will benefit from the m a­ jo r im provem ents now rapidly going into effect. One country, P arag u a y , will, fo r the first tim e in h i s t o r y , be linked, th ro u g h P an A m erican, to the f a s t grow ing airline netw ork of the world. The new schedules involve night-flying operations fo r the

At the mouth of the storied Irish river, the "Pan American Clipper" glides to a rest— triumphantly— at the end of the first survey flight across the Atlantic from America.

Collier Trophy Awarded to Pan American Airways for “Greatest Achievement in American Aviation”
W A SH IN G T O N .— The most coveted symbol of aero n au tical leadership, th e fam ous Collier Trophy, highest honor a tta in ­ able in A m erican aviation, has th is year been aw arded to th e P an A m erican A irw ays fo r “the g re a te st achievem ent in aviation in A m erica.” A t noon on A ugust 6, P residen t F ra n k ­ lin D. Roosevelt, will present the tro p h y to P an A m erican’s president, J. T. T rippe, who will receive it in behalf of the entire personnel of th e P an A m erican A irw ays System. A t the official c e r e m o n y , which will be held a t the W hite House, the tro p h y will be aw arded in recognition of the establishm ent of scheduled air tra n s p o rt service across the Pacific Ocean and the success­ fu l d e m o n s t r a t i o n of longran g e m arine a ir navigation th a t is basic to successful m aintenance of transoceanic tra n sp o rta tio n by air. The p r e s e n t a t i o n will be made in th e presence of m any of the outstan d in g leaders in the aviation in d u stry and n a ­ tional figures associated w ith it, including the Hon. W illiam H. McAdoo, U nited S tates Sen­ a to r from C alifornia, ch air­ m an of th is y e a r’s aw ard com­ m ittee, and several of those who have received th e tro p h y in the p a s t for signal achieve­ m ents tow ard the advancem ent of A m erican aviation. Follow ing th e p resen tatio n , a luncheon will be held in th e Chinese Room of th e M ay­ flower Hotel, a t which a dis­ tinguished group of notables will atten d . In the evening, from 4 :45 to 5 :00 P. M. (E S T ) a nation-w ide netw ork of th e N a t i o n a l B roadcasting Com­ pany will c a rry a special bro ad cast on which W illiam Chenery, E d ito r of Collier’s M agazine, S e n a t o r McAdoo, and Mr. T rippe will be heard. In announcing th e aw ard fo r th e c u rre n t y ear, Collier’s re fe rs to the sto ry of P an Am­ erican and Mr. T rip p e as one “ in which science, diplomacy, im agination and rom ance co­ operate to tie th e w orld to ­ g eth er.” Since th e tro p h y w as first presented in 1911, it has re ­ corded a veritab le h isto ry of the progress of aviation science. Glenn H. C urtiss received it in 1911 and 1912; Orville W rig h t in 1913; E lm er A. S p erry in 1914; W. S ta rlin g B urgess in 1915, and S p erry again in 1916. It w as not aw arded from 1917 to 1920 because of th e w ar. Since then, th e f o l l o w i n g nam es have been engraved on it: G rover C. L o e n i n g , t h e U nited S tates A irm ail Service, the U nited S tates A rm y A ir Service, S. A lb ert Reed, M ajor E. L. Hoffman, C harles L. Law rence, th e A e r o n a u t i c s B ranch of th e D ep artm en t of Commerce, th e N ational A dvis­ ory Com m ittee fo r A eronau­ tics, H arold F . P itca irn , the P ack ard M otor C ar Company, Glenn L. M artin , th e H am ilton S tan d ard P ro p ello r Company, C aptain A lb ert F. H egenberger, and Donald W. Douglas. M ilestones in aviation h is­ to ry r e p r e s e n t e d in these aw ard s include such advances as the autom atic stabilizer, gy­ roscopic control, th e d rift in­ dicator, th e m etal propeller, th e p rac tica l p arach u te, the rad ia l air-cooled engine, the h i g h - s p e e d w eig h t-carry in g plane, the controllable pitch propeller, th e blind flying sys­ tem and th e c u rre n t big com­ m ercial tra n s p o rt planes. “ B ut in no modern tim es,” says Collier’s, “has the demon­ stra tio n w ithin the m eaning of th e tro p h y ’s conception been m ore conclusive. In no other y ear has th e opinion of th e in d u stry been unanim ous, as now, th a t a different selection would have been inane. The scheduling of th e Pacific Ocean, w idest of seas, by Ju a n T rippe and his P an A m erican co­ w orkers w as not only a m ile­ stone in a ir tr a v e l; it w as p e r­ haps the m ost spectacular, m ost challenging day in tr a n s ­ p o rtatio n h isto ry .”

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N E W YORK.— Two m onths more th a n ten y ears a fte r C harles A. L indbergh sta rtled the w orld w ith a dram atic dem onstration of the possibili­ ties of T ra n sa tla n tic tra n s p o rt by air, th e first a irlin e r de­ signed fo r th e conquest of th a t ocean r o a r e d off th e calm w aters of M anhasset Bay, n ea r New Y ork City, and pointed her steep-nosed prow tow ard th e final realization of th a t vision. W ith th e same easy precision which th rilled an in­ terested w orld two y ears ago when th e first survey flights sta rte d w estw ard from Cali­ fo rn ia and bore out across the u n ch arted Pacific, a new Pan A m erican Clipper took a full decade of flying h isto ry in a single strid e when, d ep a rtin g from P o rt W ashington on the m orning of Ju ly 3, she sped sm oothly eastw ard to th e Gulf of St. Law rence, dropped in fo r a w ay-station call a t Shediac, New Brunsw ick, and then con­ tinued on to Botwood, N ew ­ foundland, to complete th e first leg of her 3,500-mile ocean as­ signm ent. The follow ing a f te r ­ noon, on Ju ly 5, she pointed eastw ard ag ain and sped on th ro u g h th e n ig h t until, in the early m orning hours th e m urky coast of Irelan d peered th ro u g h the low ering rain . One b rief step more, to Southam pton, on Ju ly 8, completed the first s u r­ vey flight across th e A tlantic from A m erica. Sim ultaneously, t h e f i r s t c h a rtin g of a B ritish route across th a t same ocean, be­ tw een E ngland, Irelan d , New­ foundland and C anada, linking again th e T erm inals of Lon­ don and New York, w as splen­ didly a c c o m p lis h e d by the g re a t Im p erial A irw ays flyingboat Caledonia. So quietly w ere both flights accomplished, so closely did th ey adhere to pre-determ ined schedules, th a t a public, accustomed th ro u g h ten y ears to th rillin g heroics above A tlan tic skies, calmly accepted th is trem endous step as a p ro g ram alread y achieved.