Pan American air ways, Vol. 5, No. 1, January 1934

              PanAmericanAinvays Continues Advance in 1933
THE W O R L D 'S G REATEST WE DO OUR PART

PAN AMERICAN
January 1934 February

W AYS

TRANSPO RT SYSTEM

Volum e 5

Number 1

NEW CLIPPER* READY FOR TEST
STEADY MARCH IS CONTINUED DURING YEAR
S y s te m A d d s 4 3 3 0 M iles to B a sic N e tw o r k o f A i r ­ w ay s O p e ra te d

FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF NEW CLIPPER SHIP

FIRST FLIGHT SCHEDULED IN EARLY MARCH
S -4 2 E m e r g e s A f t e r 18 M o n th s o f C lo se ly G u a r d e d D e v e lo p m e n t

RESEARCH PUSHED
P a s s e n g e r T ra ffic I n c r e a s e s O v e r 17 P e r C e n t

19 T O N S , 4 M O T O R S
D e s ig n e d a s F i r s t T r a n s - O c e a n F ly in g B o a t

NEW YORK. — During the year in w hich far-reaching ad­ vances were made t o w a r d equipping the chief trade routes of the world with fast air serv­ ice—a year in which the prin­ cipal European airlines reached out to the Far E ast and were rapidly com pleting final plans to span the South A tlantic to link the great South Am erican com m ercial centers more close­ ly to Europe, Pan A m erican Air­ ways advanced to a key posi­ tion of leadership among the world’s international a i r l i n e system s. Adding 4,330 m iles of operat­ ing airw ays to the basic system during 1933, Fan A m erican Air­ ways entered 1934 w ith highly developed mail, passenger and express transport service in op­ eration over a network of 30,982.5 m iles of airw ays, linking the United States on direct aerial trade routes to every country but two in the W estern Hem isphere, and with impor­ tant outposts firmly established in A laska and in the strategic center of Far E ast trade, China. Side by side with th ese devel­ opments, Pan A m erican great­ ly advanced its program of in­ tensive research looking toward the early establishm ent of an American air service across the Pacific to the Far E ast and across the A tlantic to Europe, clim axed by the spectacular 30,000 m ile flight undertaken by Lindbergh in his capacity as T echnical A dviser to the Pan American A irw ays System .
Outstanding S e r v ic e

Revolutionary advancement in Sikorsky design was revealed when the new S-42 Type Pan American Airways Clipper Ship was brought out of manufacturing hangar for its first motor tests. The great flying boat, largest airplane ever developed in America, will undertake its first series of test flights soon after March 1st. Complete description of the new clipper ship and records of the flight ’ll be carried in the next issue of this publication.

PAN AMERICAN ORDERS BIG FLEET OF NEW HIGH SPEED TRANSPORTS
D ouglases, Lockheeds and Fairchilds Included in A ircraft Procurem ent Schedule W hich Is A dvanced To Coincide w ith Program of N ational Recovery
NEW YORK.— A dvancing a n # -------—— ----------- --------- -----------aircraft procurem ent schedule to tie in w ith P resident R oose­ v e lt’s program of increased in­ dustrial activity, the Pan Amer­ ican A irw ays S y s t e m has placed orders for additional I t a l i a n A v ia to r s , W r e c k e d in B r a z il, L o c a te d b y P ilo t equipm ent totaling $3,349,000. B e rt S o u rs T his equipm ent, o r i g i n a l l y scheduled for future construc­ RADIO BRINGS A ID tion, includes, besides the six trans-oceanic type flying boats R e s c u e P a r t y F r o m F o r t a le z a under construction at the Mar­ R u s h e s I n j u r e d to H o s p ita l tin and Sikorsky factories, six The alertness of Pan A m eri­ of a new type Fairchild am­ can personnel in Brazil on Jan­ phibian, the fa stest of its kind in the world, and tw elve new uary 30 resulted in the prompt land planes, six twin-engined location and rescue of four Ital­ D ouglas transports and six ian aviators who had flown Lockheed twin-motored “Elec- from Rom e to A frica and tras.” This new flying equip­ across the South A tlantic only m ent, m ost of it capable of to crash after an attem pted speeds up to 200 m iles an hour, landing on the coast of Brazil. w ill give Pan A m erican the W hen the Italians, Commander largest fleet of big, multi-mo­ F rancesco Lombardi, Count tored, high speed air transports Franco Mazzoti, Marino B attag­ in the world. lia and D avidi Giulini w ere long By advancing this work for overdue at N atal, their intend­ im m ediate execution, P r e s i- ed destination, Pan Am erican dent Trippe said the directors pilots w ere instructed to keep a hoped to lend further im petus sharp w atch on either side of

30 COUNTRIES DO HONOR TO MAIL SERVICE
O b s e rv e F i f t h A n n i v e r s a r y o f F i r s t A ir M a il F lig h t to S o u th A m e r ic a

PAN AMERICAN PLANE FINDS LOST FLIERS

In the inter-American field, the year’s activities graphical­ ly dem onstrated the im portant part the system is playing in the recovery of inter-American trade and comm erce. On the operating side, 1933 w itnessed a number of im provem ents ef­ fected in airw ays routing and
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NEW YORK.—T he fifth anni­ versary of Pan A m erican Air­ w ays’ first mail flight from the United States to South A m erica was observed on February 4. F ive years ago on that date, for­ eign air mail route number 5 was inaugurated w ith a Sikor­ sky S-38, P ilot Lindbergh at the controls. W ith the late John E. Ham bleton, vice-president of the Pan Am erican A irw ays Sys­ tem, he left from the 36th Street airport in Miami and three days later landed at Cristobal, Canal Zone w ith the first m ail ever to travel by air betw een North and South America. The plane w as m et at Cristobal by Gerald D. B liss, C. H. Calhoun, director of posts for the Panam a Canal Zone and a large and enthusi­ astic w elcom ing com m ittee. Stops en route were, made at Havana, Cozumel, B elize, T ela, Managua, Punta A renas, David and Panama. In special observance of the anniversary, postm asters in thirty countries and colonies of the W est Indies, Central and South America, posted letters on February 4 to the P ostm as­ ter General of the U nited States
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NEW YORK.— The “S-42,” the first trans-Alantic type airliner, which has been in the course of closely guarded developm ent for the past 18 months, has em erged from the Sikorsky A ircraft factory at Bridgeport, C onnecticut, and w as scheduled to begin a series of test flights early in March. F irst of a fleet of six giant “clip­ per ships” w hich have been or­ dered by the Pan A m erican Air­ w ays System , this new ocean greyhound is the largest air­ liner ever built in America. D esigned as an over-ocean, mail carrying transport with a 2500-mile non-stop range, suffi­ cient to cross either the A tlan­ tic or the Pacific oceans, this new 19 ton, 2800 horsepow er aerial gian t w ill be fitted as a 32 passenger airliner for the presenl^tind w ill go in service on the sy stem ’s routes through
A dditional pictures of the w ill be found on the back page.

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the Caribbean. As such, it will have a range of 1200 m iles with a full com plem ent of passen­ gers, 1,000 pounds of m ail and express and a five-man crew. The basic specifications upon w hich the giant, 4 motored fly­ ing boat was designed by Sikor­ sky with the collaboration of Pan Am erican staff engineers were generally accepted by the aviation industry as the m ost sev ere ever demanded for transport aircraft. According to its builders, the new ship will not only m eet and exceed those specifications but w ill give Pan Am erican Airways a flying boat w ith greater p ossibilities than it was thought could be incor­ porated in aircraft when the specifications were com pleted.