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World’s Standard For Air Transpor tation
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APRIL, 1939 Eastern Div.’s Express 6 34,000 Lbs. In 1938
MIAMI. — The fleet of flying Clippers in the East ern Division carried, in addition to passengers, mail and baggage, a total of 634,395 pounds of air express during 1938. Largest month was De cember, when 64,755 pounds were transported.
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NORTH HAVEN SAILS FOR CANTON ISLE TO SET UP BASE
D u p lica tes M ission P erform ed F or F irst O ce a n A irw a y O n P acific
Yankee Clipper Home Again
Vol. 10
No. 2 Cuban Students Fly To A n d F rom School
HAVANA. — Last year 392 Cuban pupils in Amer ican educational institutions made use of Pan American Airways services. January, following the Christmas recess, shows the heaviest month of travel for the scholars with 120 using the service.
BOWLING LEAGUE’S TOP HONORS GO TO MEXICAN ROLLERS
T ake A ll T rop h ies E xcep t In th e T h ree-G am e C a teg o ry , W on By N ew Y ork E xecu tives
YANKEE CLIPPER COMPLETES FINAL INSPECTION TRIP
7 In tern ation al A irlin e B ases In S ix C ou n tries Stu d ied O n 1 1 ,0 0 0 -M ile F lig h t
COMPETITION KEEN
M iami, L ast Y ear’s W inn ers, A r e T hird In 4 0 -T e a m C on te st L asting T w en ty W eek s
SOUTH SEAS ROUTE
Island 1 ,9 0 0 M iles S o u th ea st of H aw aii T o B e S top O n A u stralasian R ou te
83 HOURS OF FLYING
C rew and P a sse n g e r s G iven W arm R e ce p tio n a t E ach F or e ig n B ase T h e y T o u c h e d
NEW YORK.—Mexico City’s Alley Cat bowling team drove through to spectacular triumph in the Pan American Air ways System Bowling League, sweeping practically all the major trophies and team and individual honors, and thor oughly displacing the oncep o w e rfu l M iam i Aviation Building team which took major honors last year. At the beginning of the Sys tem League’s season last win ter, Mexico’s five teams were given little better than an out side chance to finish in the top brackets, on the basis of the previous year’s showing. But by strong, concerted action throughout the season, they made even Miami press hard for the third place they even tually held when the last game was rolled.
L argest G eograp h ically
SAN FRANCISCO. — The ‘SOUTH AMAIRICAN’ S.S. North Haven, fam o u s SPEEDS SCHEDULES veteran of A m e ric a ’s first TO BUENOS AIRES ocean airway building expedi tion (San Francisco, Hawaii, Is In crease o f M illion and H alf Midway, Wake, Guam, Philip T w ic e W eek ly F lig h ts D ir ec t O ver 1 9 3 7 , S h o w n By pines, Macao, Hong Kong) T o C anal Z o n e C o n n e ct W ith A n n u a l R eport P a n A m erican -G race steamed out of the Golden Gate again, on April 29 for PROGRESS DESCRIBED the same kind of a mission— CHILE IN FOUR DAYS this time to Canton Island, M ore P rofitable O p eration S e e n 1,900 miles southwest of Ha C o n n ectin g S c h e d u les W ith F or 1 9 3 9 T h ro u g h A d E astern P u t C anal Z o n e waii. ju sted R ates
W ithin 2 0 H rs. o f N e w Y ork
1938 GROSS INCOME OF PAN AMERICAN AT $ 1 6 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0
The Pan American Bowling League, with forty teams scat tered from Buenos Aires to New York to San Francisco, lays claim to being the world’s largest, geographically speak ing. And at that, the season just closed is only its second. The Mexican Alley Cat team, consisting of Narciso Castillo, captain; Francisco Cordero, Rodolfo Marino, Haroldo Poceros and Enrique Dahlhaus, Jr., won Mexico’s first leg on the impressive President’s tro'phy, donated by Mr. Trippe, ;which is representative of the 'team championship of the Pan American System. Winning 91 of their 117 scheduled games in a driving finish, they displayed an enthusiasm and do-or-die spirit that could not be denied. The team started slowly, averaging only 724 pins a game, but by the time the season was in its final throes they were averaging over 900 per game, leaving no doubt that they were a power ful outfit truly deserving of the championship. Their supremacy was chal lenged repeatedly and strongly by both the New York Execu tives and the Miami Aviation Building teams, but these powContinued on Page 20
NEW YORK.—As the first element in a new drive to fu r ther protect U. S. air leader ship in view of the increasingly aggressive competition of Ger man and other European sub sidized air forces on the South American continent, Pan Am erican Airways and Pan Am erican-Grace Airways have ef fected improved schedules over their connecting lines that will permit the operation of two through and direct services weekly, on identical schedules, F inal P h ase between the United States and The 11,000-mile flight marked the west coast countries of the final phase of Pan Ameri Continued on Page 2 can’s flight program prepara tory to early inauguration of scheduled American air service to Europe, and followed the submission by the airline com pany of formal application to the Civil Aeronautic Authority for necessary route certificates and rates for the operation of the Transatlantic service. The huge Yankee Clipper lifted off the waters of the Pa tapsco River here, eastbound, on March 26, and headed straight for Horta, in the Azores. The Clipper covered the 2,750 route miles in seven teen hours and a half at an average speed of almost 160 miles an hour. That flight, with 21 people on board the aircraft, set a world’s record for the transportation of passengers across the Atlantic in a heavier-than-air craft. Three days were spent at Horta to permit thorough in spection of base facilities and This striking photo shows Pan Am erican's new Flagship skimming over the waters of the Patapsco River a moment airport installations, and to before it lifted into the air tow ing its way to the Azores— a 2,800-mile flight— which it accomplished with less give Horta personnel an oppor than 5 0 % horsepower at an average cruising speed of 160 m.p.h.— with the largest number of persons— 21— ever tunity to gain experience in the carried across an ocean in an airplane. Continued on Page 10 When Secretary of the In terior Harold Li. Ickes recently signed th e lic e n se g iv in g authority for Pan American to set up an airline base on Can ton Island he paved the way for the North Haven’s trip, and for establishment of this island as a substitute base for Pago Pago on the South Pa cific route to New Zealand. Early this past year, opera tions over this south sea island airline were held up, awaiting delivery of replacement equip ment adequate for flying comContinued on Page 3
NEW YORK.—Summarizing the activities and accomplish ments of a year in which prep arations for expansion of sched uled air transport service on both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans were being completed, Pan American Airways Corpo ration distributed its Eleventh Annual Report to stockholders May 1. Gross revenue for the year increased to $16,072,952.45, a gain of nearly one and onehalf million dollars over the previous year. Net profits, due to the structure of rates still in Continued on Page 11
L icen se S ign ed
BALTIMORE.—To the ac companiment of a cold Spring rain, Yankee Clipper, flagship of Pan American Airways’ fleet of Transoceanic flyingboats, landed here at 12:41 P. M. on April 16 to complete a record inspection flight to European bases before inauguration of scheduled North Atlantic air service. In command of Captain H ar old E. Gray, and carrying a crew of eleven and nine tech nical observers from United States Government agencies and of Pan American’s Opera tions department, the 6,000horsepower, 41-ton flyingboat made detailed inspections of seven international airline bases in six foreign countries. The mileage total came to 11,017, and of the total of 22 days that the flyingboat was away from its home base in Balti more, only 83 hours, or three and a third days, were spent in flying.
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| Full Text | World’s Standard For Air Transpor tation pm APRIL, 1939 Eastern Div.’s Express 6 34,000 Lbs. In 1938 MIAMI. — The fleet of flying Clippers in the East ern Division carried, in addition to passengers, mail and baggage, a total of 634,395 pounds of air express during 1938. Largest month was De cember, when 64,755 pounds were transported. WAYS NORTH HAVEN SAILS FOR CANTON ISLE TO SET UP BASE D u p lica tes M ission P erform ed F or F irst O ce a n A irw a y O n P acific Yankee Clipper Home Again Vol. 10 No. 2 Cuban Students Fly To A n d F rom School HAVANA. — Last year 392 Cuban pupils in Amer ican educational institutions made use of Pan American Airways services. January, following the Christmas recess, shows the heaviest month of travel for the scholars with 120 using the service. BOWLING LEAGUE’S TOP HONORS GO TO MEXICAN ROLLERS T ake A ll T rop h ies E xcep t In th e T h ree-G am e C a teg o ry , W on By N ew Y ork E xecu tives YANKEE CLIPPER COMPLETES FINAL INSPECTION TRIP 7 In tern ation al A irlin e B ases In S ix C ou n tries Stu d ied O n 1 1 ,0 0 0 -M ile F lig h t COMPETITION KEEN M iami, L ast Y ear’s W inn ers, A r e T hird In 4 0 -T e a m C on te st L asting T w en ty W eek s SOUTH SEAS ROUTE Island 1 ,9 0 0 M iles S o u th ea st of H aw aii T o B e S top O n A u stralasian R ou te 83 HOURS OF FLYING C rew and P a sse n g e r s G iven W arm R e ce p tio n a t E ach F or e ig n B ase T h e y T o u c h e d NEW YORK.—Mexico City’s Alley Cat bowling team drove through to spectacular triumph in the Pan American Air ways System Bowling League, sweeping practically all the major trophies and team and individual honors, and thor oughly displacing the oncep o w e rfu l M iam i Aviation Building team which took major honors last year. At the beginning of the Sys tem League’s season last win ter, Mexico’s five teams were given little better than an out side chance to finish in the top brackets, on the basis of the previous year’s showing. But by strong, concerted action throughout the season, they made even Miami press hard for the third place they even tually held when the last game was rolled. L argest G eograp h ically SAN FRANCISCO. — The ‘SOUTH AMAIRICAN’ S.S. North Haven, fam o u s SPEEDS SCHEDULES veteran of A m e ric a ’s first TO BUENOS AIRES ocean airway building expedi tion (San Francisco, Hawaii, Is In crease o f M illion and H alf Midway, Wake, Guam, Philip T w ic e W eek ly F lig h ts D ir ec t O ver 1 9 3 7 , S h o w n By pines, Macao, Hong Kong) T o C anal Z o n e C o n n e ct W ith A n n u a l R eport P a n A m erican -G race steamed out of the Golden Gate again, on April 29 for PROGRESS DESCRIBED the same kind of a mission— CHILE IN FOUR DAYS this time to Canton Island, M ore P rofitable O p eration S e e n 1,900 miles southwest of Ha C o n n ectin g S c h e d u les W ith F or 1 9 3 9 T h ro u g h A d E astern P u t C anal Z o n e waii. ju sted R ates W ithin 2 0 H rs. o f N e w Y ork 1938 GROSS INCOME OF PAN AMERICAN AT $ 1 6 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 The Pan American Bowling League, with forty teams scat tered from Buenos Aires to New York to San Francisco, lays claim to being the world’s largest, geographically speak ing. And at that, the season just closed is only its second. The Mexican Alley Cat team, consisting of Narciso Castillo, captain; Francisco Cordero, Rodolfo Marino, Haroldo Poceros and Enrique Dahlhaus, Jr., won Mexico’s first leg on the impressive President’s tro'phy, donated by Mr. Trippe, ;which is representative of the 'team championship of the Pan American System. Winning 91 of their 117 scheduled games in a driving finish, they displayed an enthusiasm and do-or-die spirit that could not be denied. The team started slowly, averaging only 724 pins a game, but by the time the season was in its final throes they were averaging over 900 per game, leaving no doubt that they were a power ful outfit truly deserving of the championship. Their supremacy was chal lenged repeatedly and strongly by both the New York Execu tives and the Miami Aviation Building teams, but these powContinued on Page 20 NEW YORK.—As the first element in a new drive to fu r ther protect U. S. air leader ship in view of the increasingly aggressive competition of Ger man and other European sub sidized air forces on the South American continent, Pan Am erican Airways and Pan Am erican-Grace Airways have ef fected improved schedules over their connecting lines that will permit the operation of two through and direct services weekly, on identical schedules, F inal P h ase between the United States and The 11,000-mile flight marked the west coast countries of the final phase of Pan Ameri Continued on Page 2 can’s flight program prepara tory to early inauguration of scheduled American air service to Europe, and followed the submission by the airline com pany of formal application to the Civil Aeronautic Authority for necessary route certificates and rates for the operation of the Transatlantic service. The huge Yankee Clipper lifted off the waters of the Pa tapsco River here, eastbound, on March 26, and headed straight for Horta, in the Azores. The Clipper covered the 2,750 route miles in seven teen hours and a half at an average speed of almost 160 miles an hour. That flight, with 21 people on board the aircraft, set a world’s record for the transportation of passengers across the Atlantic in a heavier-than-air craft. Three days were spent at Horta to permit thorough in spection of base facilities and This striking photo shows Pan Am erican's new Flagship skimming over the waters of the Patapsco River a moment airport installations, and to before it lifted into the air tow ing its way to the Azores— a 2,800-mile flight— which it accomplished with less give Horta personnel an oppor than 5 0 % horsepower at an average cruising speed of 160 m.p.h.— with the largest number of persons— 21— ever tunity to gain experience in the carried across an ocean in an airplane. Continued on Page 10 When Secretary of the In terior Harold Li. Ickes recently signed th e lic e n se g iv in g authority for Pan American to set up an airline base on Can ton Island he paved the way for the North Haven’s trip, and for establishment of this island as a substitute base for Pago Pago on the South Pa cific route to New Zealand. Early this past year, opera tions over this south sea island airline were held up, awaiting delivery of replacement equip ment adequate for flying comContinued on Page 3 NEW YORK.—Summarizing the activities and accomplish ments of a year in which prep arations for expansion of sched uled air transport service on both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans were being completed, Pan American Airways Corpo ration distributed its Eleventh Annual Report to stockholders May 1. Gross revenue for the year increased to $16,072,952.45, a gain of nearly one and onehalf million dollars over the previous year. Net profits, due to the structure of rates still in Continued on Page 11 L icen se S ign ed BALTIMORE.—To the ac companiment of a cold Spring rain, Yankee Clipper, flagship of Pan American Airways’ fleet of Transoceanic flyingboats, landed here at 12:41 P. M. on April 16 to complete a record inspection flight to European bases before inauguration of scheduled North Atlantic air service. In command of Captain H ar old E. Gray, and carrying a crew of eleven and nine tech nical observers from United States Government agencies and of Pan American’s Opera tions department, the 6,000horsepower, 41-ton flyingboat made detailed inspections of seven international airline bases in six foreign countries. The mileage total came to 11,017, and of the total of 22 days that the flyingboat was away from its home base in Balti more, only 83 hours, or three and a third days, were spent in flying. |
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