Clipper, Vol. 10, No. 10, May 13, 1954

              Read From California to Calcutta, From Alaska To Australasia
Voi. 10 No. 10
PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEES OP PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS
May 13,1954
Final Tabulations Made For the Tip-Top Contest
Atlantic Scores Upset Win As PAD Winds Up in 4th Spot
We were last.
Despite a good performance in the stretch run through March, the PAD couldn’t climb out of fourth place in the Tip-Top Sales Contest that ended March 31st. The big surprise of the race was the feat of the Atlantic Division in moving from last place in mid-February to snatch the top spot away from LAD, who had held a commanding lead almost to the end.
Here are the final standings:
Atlantic .............930,323
LAD ..................919,920
System ...............845,396
PAD ..................812,474
The PAD placed two men in the top ten throughout the system— Captain Gib Blackmore and Pub-rel’s Robin Kinkead. Together this pair accounted for better than 10 per cent of the PAD total.
Here are the ten employees, in order of points earned, who will receive PAA lighters for being the top ten producers for the last month of the contest:
Captain Gib Blackmore, Alfonso Cardenas of Los Angeles Traffic, Tom Maino of Accounting, Nicholas Hart of B&F, Robin Kinkead (Continued on Page 8)
HAD A HIGH TIME
Captain Gib Blackmore is one PAD employee who does a little more than just his job. He was the top employee in the PAD in the recently concluded Tip-Top Sales Contest. Because of his efforts the skipper won a lot of prizes and Pan American got a lot of customers.
NOT ABOUT TO LIVE DANGEROUSLY
With his “Mae West” on and packing his parachute, Captain Don Storkan stopped long enough to buy some insurance before going up for his Dehmel training flight last week. His precautions were unnecessary, though, because Don and his crew didn’t crash after all. See page 5 for more pictures of their training flight in the Dehmel.
THE DEHMEL'S OFF AND RUNNING
Simulator Is So Realistic You've Got To Open the Back Door To Make Sure You're Not Up In the Air
Now undergoing final shakedown flights is the newest addition to the PAD’s fleet of B-377’s—the Dehmel trainer.
Following its arrival at San Francisco from New York the electronic flight simulator was given a major overhaul. After that was completed the setting up of the intricate equipment required considerable time. For the past three weeks test flights have been flown during which minor adjustments were made.
This amazing trainer, which costs a little more than half as much as the airplane it resembles, will be used to train PAD pilots and copilots in their periodic instrument checks and also for transition training in B-377 type aircraft.
It will also be used to give flight engineers their periodic competency checks and to qualify new engineers on the equipment.
Everything in this trainer from (Continued on Page 4)
Employee Discovers It's Easy To Say "Charge It"
A Little Down and 12 Months To Pay Buys Visit to Germany
Steven Carter, mechanic in the San Francisco Fabric Shop, is the first PAD employee to take advantage of Pan American’s latest innovation to stimulate international travel, installment plan purchasing of transportation.
His wife Gertrude and their seven months old daughter, Beverly, left last week for Frankfort, Germany to visit Gertrude’s sister.
Steve plans to go over later this year when he gets his vacation and the three will return together. His wife and daughter traveled at 50 per cent discount, since he was not on vacation. Even at that, the PAA tickets cost him a down payment of only $34.83.
By applying the pay-later plan to an 85 per cent discount ticket employees can now stray a little farther from home without creating a vacuum in the piggy bank.
In Montevideo, if you want airplane, train and bus schedules, names of travel agencies, movie programs, weather reports or information on nearly anything, you can get it by dialing 213.
POP'LL PAY WHEN THEY'RE AWAY
This is Steve Carter of the SFO Fabric Shop, who took time out from his work on a B-377 elevator to add his endorsement to Pan American’s new installment travel plan. His wife and baby daughter have just left for a visit to Frankfort, Germany on the fly-now-pay-later plan.
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