Pan American air ways, Vol. 9, No. 7, November 1938

              W orld’s Standard F or A ir T ran sp or­ tation

Q uito Joins A ir N e t­ w ork

Volume 9

NOVEMBER— 1938— DECEMBER

No. 7

RECORD IN TRAVEL TO SOUTH BY AIR SEEN FOR WINTER
A ir R ou tes to W est Indies and Sou th and C entral A m erica L ook to B usy S eason

FINAL LINK JOINS AMERICAN CITIES IN AIR NETWORK
TO A LL PERSONNEL
Q uito, E cuador’s C apital, A d ded T o V a st N etw ork S ervin g th e S ou th ern A m ericas

ALL-EXPENSE TOURS
N ew T rip is C oast-to-C oast via Cuba and M exico from M iam i, 11% o f T im e In T ravel

I am happy at this holiday season to express to all co-workers in the Pan American A irw ays System my sincere gratitude For the co-operation and loyal support which has made possible the outstanding achievements of the past year, and paved the way for even more constructive developments in the future. To every one of youl wish a very M erry Christmas and a H appy NewYear.
J. T. TRIPPE, President.

BEGAN NOVEMBER 19
C ity B oasts F ifty-six C h urch es R ich ly D eco ra ted w ith P ure Silver and Gold

NEW YORK.—In prepara­ tion for what may well prove to be the busiest tourist travel season to the southern Amer­ icas experienced thus far, transportation companies and travel bureaus have arranged a record offering of sea and air cruises to South America.
S team er C ruises

QUITO. — A brand new travel opportunity is opened up to tourists who are plan­ ning South American visits this winter by the establish­ ment on November 19 of sched­ uled air service into Quito, capital of Ecuador.
Links C apitals

Already nine special steam­ ship cruises to South American ports, and more than 70 to points in the Caribbean, have been announced—these in ad­ dition to all-expense cruises which may be had on regular sailings to Latin American ports every week in some cases and fortnightly in others. A series of all-expense air cruises over the international routes of Pan American Airways pro­ vides a score of short, medium and long tours of the Latin Americas. In the air phase of air travel to the West Indies, Mexico, Central America and South America, Pan American Air­ ways is making ready for an anticipated in cre ase which should boost the passenger travel level far above the 113,000 carried over its network in these areas in the six months of late 1937 and early 1938 embracing the winter tourist season.
G etting to M iam i

Big Boeing Flyingboats, Tests Virtually Completed, Soon To Be Delivered For Air Service On Two Oceans
SEATTLE. — With factory tests completed, Civil Aero­ nautics Authority checks al­ most finished, and with Pan American Airways engineer­ ing and piloting personnel al­ ready so well acquainted with performance and capabilities that acceptance flights should be completed in a very short time, the six big flyingboats which the Boeing company is building for ocean service by Pan American Airways will soon be coming from the pro­ duction line. B-314 Number One, which has been the subject of the tests on water and in the air, and plane Number Two, which went through the final as­ sembly stages side by side with the first one, should be ready within a short time of each other. The remaining four are in various stages of assembly and will follow at intervals after delivery of the first two. Following five months of exhaustive tests by Pilot Eddie Allen and his crew of Boeing and Wright personnel, the Civil Aeronautics Authority took over in early November, with a Flight Test Board headed by R. D. Bedinger, Regional Supervisor. Acting with Bedinger were J. D. Boud♦ ------------------------------------

To expedite the transition from bleak winter to sunny summer, the Great Silver Fleet of Eastern Airlines will be in­ creased to 26 airliners. The east coast line is getting two new planes from the Douglas company and is filling out its winter fleet with five mainliners which will be loaned to Eastern by United Airlines in a co o perative arrangement which has made airline his­ tory. Traffic offices of Pan Am­ erican and Eastern expect to shuttle a thousand passengers a day between snow and sun­ shine fo r the next three months. In the air phase of travel to Continued on Page 3

win, Senior Engineering In­ spector, who shared the con­ trols with Allen during the trials; George W. Haldeman, Engineering Inspector from Detroit; H. C. Since, Aircraft Inspector for the Seventh Re­ gion ; N. P. Crews, Aeronautical Engineer; A. C. Miller of the Authority’s Air Carrier In­ spection Division, and O. A. Rosto, Air C a rrie r Mainte­ nance Inspector. The board also had as advisers Robert Ayer, Engineer in Charge of the Flight Test Branch and L. J. Holoubek, Senior Engi­ neering Inspector for the Sixth Region. This board didn’t have to duplicate what the factory al­ ready had done, but it did have to put the big airplane through a series of tests that kept it busy for more than a month, to make certain that airworthi­ ness requirements of the Fed­ eral government had been met or exceeded all along the line. The five months of taxiing and flying by Test Pilot Allen’s crew not only proved that the airplane could do everything claimed for it by Boeing engi­ neers when it was nothing but an idea on paper back in 1935, but also resulted in the incor­ poration of m any improve­

ments which were possible be­ cause of advances in aerody­ namic science and aircraft de­ signing. For instance, at one stage during the test program the walls of the passenger com­ partments were torn out so that a new type of insulation —spun glass wool—could be installed to provide more effi­ cient sound-proofing than the original material. At least a hundred such changes were made as the flight test pro­ gram went forward. Performance exceeds the estimates of the designers, and is actually comparable to what was proudly hailed for mili­ tary pursuit ships only a few years ago. The Boeing can take its 42 tons off the water in 30 seconds or less, can climb at the rate of 1,000 feet a minute, can operate to 20,000 feet, can exceed 200 miles per hour. Just recently it has been demonstrating to the C. A. A. board that it is perfectly capa­ ble of flying along with two engines revving up on one side, and the two on the other side not turning at all. Actually, th e rese rv e of power provided by the Clip­ per’s four 1,500 horsepower Continued on Page 15

This new service to Ecua­ dor’s capital by Pan American Airways’ associated company, Pan American-Grace Airways, Inc., completes an aerial net­ work linking the United States with all of the capitals of the southern Americas. Although operating more than 50,000 miles and serving all of the Latin American countries—in addition to flying across the Pacific Ocean, to and through Alaska and to Bermuda—Pan American Airways lacked one national capital on the list of its ports of call in Latin Am­ erica until the inauguration of this service to Ecuador’s twomile-high capital. Quito is remembered from fourth-grade geography days as the capital which is located practically on the Equator, but still has a temperate climate because of its being 9,200 feet above sea-level. Beyond that little is known of Quito by the average person because it has been too far removed from the travel lanes of the tourist trade. Until thirty years ago everything which came into Quito from the outside, whether a carpet tack or a piano, was transported on mule back—300 miles into the high mountains —on the backs of thousands of burrows.
R ailroad Built

Then the railroad was built and Quito really established contact with a civilization other than its own. The city began to modernize itself—it now has a hotel which ranks in comfort and convenience with hostelries anywhere. It has street cars, bus lines and many automobiles. It is a notably clean city. Its business men dress and act like up-to-date business men in other South