Pan American air ways, Vol. 9, No. 4, May 1938

              World’s Standard For Air Transpor­ tation

Super Clipper

P4IM
MAY - 1938 - JUNE

W A YS
SUMMER RATES SET FOR VACATIONS AT MIDWAY AND WAKE
M id -P a c ific Isla n d s G a in F a m e A s R e s o r ts F o r T o u r is ts W a n tin g Q u ie t

S ta rts T ests

Volume 9

No. 4

FIRST

SUPER C LIP P ER STARTS TESTS
E v e ry b o d y Is A sking — W h ere Is Ole Barney?
Chalk up ano th er first fo r P an A merican A ir W ays . W ith th is issue it ap p e ars w ith a b ig -a s -life comic strip , and not only th a t, but one w hich begins w ith a full-fledged m ystery. W here is B arney? See page 20, and next m onth w atch fo r the n e x t a p p e a r a n c e of “ Tale W ind.” I t ’s alm ost a c e rta in ty th a t th e m y stery will be solved by then.

THIRD SEA ROUTE OVER CARIBBEAN IS INAUGURATED
N ew M a r a c a ib o S c h e d u le Is F ifth A ir L in k B e tw e e n U . S . A n d S o u th A m e r ic a

W ym an Leaves System ; Is Curtiss W eight V.-P.
N E W YORK.— E. E. W y­ m an has resigned from his position as A ssistan t to the P resid en t of P an A m erican A irw ays to become a ViceP resid en t of th e C u rtiss W rig h t organization. Mr. W ym an leaves a host of frien d s all over th e System who w ish him success in his new post. Mr. W ym an will be chief­ ly identified w ith th e E x ­ p o rt Sales Division of C ur­ tiss W rig h t, w ith his office in New Y ork City.

PLANE LAUNCHING AT BOEING PLANT STARTS TAXI RUNS
F lig h ts F o r F a c to r y T e s t P r o ­ g r a m , F o r A ir C o m m e r c e a n d F o r L in e to C o m e N e x t

SERVES VENEZUELA
A ls o M a k es P o s s ib le F o u r th R o u n d -tr ip B e tw e e n M iam i A n d S an Juan

AIR ONLY APPROACH
No R e g u la r B o a ts C a ll— O n ly W a y to R e a c h th e Isla n d B a s e s Is B y C lip p e r

IS LARGEST AIRLINER
H as to B e T o w e d S id e w is e D o w n N a r r o w D u w a m ish W a te r ­ w a y to E llio t B a y

M IAM I.— A th ird daw n-todusk a ir route across th e Ca­ ribbean Sea, to link the islands of th e W est Indies on a h ig h ­ speed express ro u te between the U nited S tates and Vene­ zuela, and the fifth airline link between N orth and South Am­ erica, w as in a u g u ra ted May 28. F irs t prelim in ary schedules, on which only com m ercial c a r­ go w ill be carried, on May 30, when one of th e big 4-engined transocean Clipper Ships of the P an A m erican fleet com­ pleted th e first “ express r u n ” over the new 1,300-mile route across the eastern C aribbean, establishing nine-hour sched­ ules between M aracaibo, Vene­ zuela, the center of th e g re a t oil fields of n o rth ern South America, and M iami, clipping one-half day from th e best p re ­ vious a ir tim e between these two points and five days from the fa ste st steam er connec­ tions between N orth A m erica and the V enezuelan port. P a s ­ sengers w ere being carried over the route beginning Ju n e 18.
F ifth S o u th A m e r ic a n L in k

TRIPPE RECEIVES GOOD WILL AWARD
H o n o r e d B y A r b itr a tio n S o c ie t y , H e P o in t s to O p p o r tu n itie s In F o r e ig n T r a d e

N E W YORK. — F o r “dis­ tinguished service in prom ot­ ing in te rn atio n a l peace and com mercial good w ill” J. T. T rippe, president of P an Am­ erican A irw ays System on M ay 24, received th e gold m edal of th e A m erican A rb i­ tra tio n A ssociation and re ­ sponded w ith an address in which he pointed to fo reig n tra d e as the new A m erican fro n tie r and suggested th is field as one in w hich th e p res­ ent y outhful g eneratio n can find m any opportunities fo r careers. The presen tatio n w as a t a luncheon in th e W aldorf A s­ to ria hotel w ith F ra n k lin E. P a rk e r, J r., presid en t of the Continued on Page 3

SAN FRA N C ISC O . — One y ea r and seven m onths a fte r th e opening of th e Pacific to re g u la r transoceanic a ir p a s­ senger service, P an A m erican A irw ays h as announced th e first ro u n d -trip sum m er excur­ sion a ir fa re s on th e w orld’s la rg e st ocean ever offered to sum m er vacationists. Significant as a m ilestone in th e developm ent of w orld a ir trav el, th e new transpacific a ir tariffs, w hich are in effect fro m Ju n e 1, direct sum m er vacation traffic p a rtic u la rly tow ard those tw in, mid-Pacific islands of M idw ay and W ake, which w ere little known and p ractically u n h eard of before the advent of transoceanic a ir service between th e U. S. and th e O rient. E xclusive “ A viation Isles” in every sense of th e word, since public tra v e l to and from them is confined exclu­ sively to th e flying Clippers, sum m er tra v e l th is y ea r to M idway and W ake is expected to b reak an unusual deadlock which has developed between

REVEAL PROGRESS IN ANNUAL REPORT
T r a ffic G a in s U p 3 5 % B u t C o st In crea ses C u t N et E a r n in g s

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N E W YORK.— D espite rec­ ord gains in all d ep artm en ts of traffic over its system of m ore th a n 50,000 miles of in te rn a ­ tional a ir routes, resu ltin g in an increase of n ea rly 35 % in gross income fo r th e P an Am­ erican A irw ays C orporation fo r th e y ear, a prop o rtio n ately g re a te r increase in tax es and oth er costs contributed to th e reduction of n et profit to $510,446.68, as com pared w ith $955,352.04 rep o rted in 1936, according to th e 10th A nnual R eport of Ju a n T. T rippe, president, to stockholders. Gross income fo r th e y ear increased to $14,729,412.31, a Continued on Page 4

SEA TTLE.—The la rg e st a ir­ liner in the world designed for tra n sp o rt service, th e 83,000pound “ Super C lipper” which has been under closely-guarded construction a t the p lan t of the Boeing A irplane Company here fo r m ore»than 18 m onths, was launched on M ay 31 fo r its first sea ru n s on P u g et Sound. On Ju n e 7, th e big plane m ade its first flight. So la rg e is th e g ia n t flyingboat th a t a special handling crew of 200 men had to be as­ sembled to move th e ocean a ir­ liner out of h er mobile dry dock into the Duwamish River. More th an an hour w as required to ease th e ship down the ram p as 1,000 persons looked on, and be­ cause the w ing span of 152 feet is g re a te r th a n th a t of the bridges across the river, it had to be towed sidewise down the channel to E lliot Bay in P u g et Sound w here th e c ra ft w as put through its w ate r paces by T est P ilot Edm und T. Allen.
T e s ts T h r e e -S id e d

T his new o v e r s e a s route m arks establishm ent of th e fifth airw a y linking N orth and South A m erica. T hree di­ rect overseas lines now oper­ ate between the overland route th ro u gh C entral A m erica on the w est and the pioneer W est Indies route, w hich is now n earin g its 10th year of o pera­ tion, on th e east. In view of th e recent expan­ sion of E uropean a ir routes on the South A m erican continent, and the prospective addition of re g u la r a ir passenger service across the South A tlan tic be­ tw een South A m erican capi­ ta ls and E uropean centers, th is new service between the A m erican continents is con­ sidered of added im portance. Designed to d istrib u te the increasing traffic p ressu re on
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Miami Takes All But One of Bowling League Awards With B. A. Turning In Greatest Season Improvement
N E W YORK. — Maybe a< §> batch of sun-baked so u th ern ­ pionship of th e League. In ad­ ers dislike being labeled as dition, th e five-man team of New Y ork Y ankees, b u t the C aptain S. H. (Sid) Brown, M iam i-A viation Building team A. S. (A rch) G albraith, A. E. certainly w ere th e Y ankees of (S ilen t P ete) P eterson, G. P. the w orld’s biggest bowling (Duke) Gwin and F . J. (P in league — the P an A m erican M auler) G e lh a u s , w as w ay A irw ays System Bowling L ea­ ahead in th e race fo r th e b eau­ tifu l T otal P ins T rophy do­ gue, to be exact. W i th t h e b a s e s lo a d e d nated by V ice-President E van ag a in st them in th e n in th in n ­ E. Young. And to add in su lt to in ju ry ing of the crucial gam e of the season they whiffed th e la st A rch G alb raith scored th e b a tte r and pulled out a b are w inning ru n fo r th e team and h alf a gam e ahead of everyone w as crowned th e individual else w ith th e 1938 p en n an t cham pion of th e League w ith safely in th e ir possession. F o r a season b a ttin g av erag e of t h e i r e f f o r t s t h e y w e r e 183.3, annexing th e first leg on aw arded P re sid en t T r i p p e ’s V i c e - P r e s i d e n t George L. T rophy fo r th e Team Cham ­ R ihl’s challenge cup. T here w asn ’t a team or in ­ dividual record th a t didn’t bow to th is team , w ith George Gwin ra tin g a silverplated bowlerm ounted cigarette- box fo r a three-gam e record of 219-2132 3 3 — 665, and F re d G elhaus a folding leather-cased trav e lin g clock fo r his suprem e effort of 254. Brow n and P eterson also won th e m anagem ent of th e League fo r th e 1938-39 season by th e ir ab ility in th is line. B u t it would tak e too much space to go into detail of th e accom plishm ents of M iam i’s w inning team w ith o u t first m entioning th e p r o m i n e n c e w hich Buenos A ires deserves

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The full te stin g program , which involves n ot only A llen’s te sts fo r Boeing, b u t in addition th e A.T.C. and license te sts fo r the B ureau of A ir Commerce, and P an A m erican A irw ay s’ own acceptance te sts, will re­ quire a period of several weeks, before the ship will be ready to go into service. U ntil th e launching a t the end of May, the big Clipper had not been on public view, and even now some details of con­ struction are being guarded be­ cause of th e ir advanced devel­ opment. The new 1,500 horsepow er W rig h t Cyclone engines, of which a b a tte ry of fo u r will pow er th e huge c ra ft on h er ocean runs, and which are the la rg e st a irc ra ft engines yet de­ veloped, are still on th e secret list of th e W ar and N avy De­ p artm en ts. The engines are a develop-