Pan American clipper, Vol. 19, No. 2, February 1960

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Volume 19 FEBRUARY, 1960 No. 2

Pan Am, Pakistan Sign Agreement
First DC-8C Delivered To Pan Am

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Signing of a three-year agreement for Pakistan Inter­ national Airlines to lease a Pan American World Airways 1 1Intercontinental Jet Clipper for operation on PIA routes has been announced jointly by the airlines. Terms of the two-stage agree­ ment provide for PIA to oper­ J ate a Jet Clipper on the Pakistan national airline’s route between London and Karachi via Rome, Beirut, and Teheran. Flight time for the distance will be reduced to 11 hours, 45 minutes—about V, ':■ ! ■ $ -i half the present piston-engine time. Service originally will be on a once-weekly basis effective 1 March 7, with the jet used I IBll l i i being taken from the Pan Am­ ■ erican jet aircraft pool. The The first Douglas DC-8C, I iHHH service will be stepped up to a long-range, overseas version of iV greater frequency in October the DC-8 jet airliner now flying when a Jet Clipper is turned on U. S. domestic routes, was over to PIA and re-painted in delivered to Pan American on lilll February 7. Pakistan colors. Flights will be in a combined The DC-8C Jet Clipper is the first-class and tourist configura­ first of a fleet of 21 Douglas jets tion. Until PIA flight crews can to be delivered to Pan American ENGINE OVERHAUL facility at Idlewild is a very busy place, and will keep getting busier as our jet fleet increases. Photo shows James Walker, Joseph Basso and Kenneth be checked out in jet operation, during 1960 and early 1961. Goodwin guiding an engine onto an engine cradle for completion of re-assembly. Pan American will operate the Powered by four Pratt & flights. We will continue to do Whitney JT-4A (J-75) engines, the major maintenance for the rated at 15,800 pounds of thrust duration of the lease time. Six each, the DC-8C Jet Clippers PIA stewardesses are now re­ have a fuel capacity nearly ceiving our jet training at Idle- 22,000 gallons, makingof possible wild, and Pakistan pilots and nonstop transatlantic and trans­ flight engineers also will be pacific flights in either direction. trained in New York. The DC-8C Jet Clippers are cap­ Pan Am and Pakistan officials able of nonstop operation be­ m Karachi signed the agreetween the West Coast of the ment, which is to run until July, 1963. They hailed it as a demon­ United States and Tokyo or be­ stration of the continuing co­ tween Chicago and the principal operation between the two coun­ cities of Europe. More than one thousand new jobs will be generated a t Idlewild within the next year Certificated for a takeoff gross by maintenance work on Pan Am’s constantly-expanding fleet of Jet Clippers, according to tries in airline operations. In a program conducted weight of 310,000 pounds, the Division Maintenance Manager Richard M. Adams. through the International Co­ highest allowable gross weight These new jobs are in addition to the 800 Maintenance positions created at Idlewild in operation Administration, we of any commercial aircraft, the the last year by the growth of our je t fleet. have had a technical assistance DC-8C can carry 168 passengers M ~ i A force of 1,000 persons will team of experts in all phases of in an all-Economy class seating be needed for the gigantic job flight and ground operations arrangement. of periodically dismantling jet working with their PIA counter­ Cruising speed of the overseas powerplants into the 7,000 parts parts in Karachi since June, DC-8C is 575 miles per hour. of which each is composed, 1955. It is 150 feet, 6 inches long; 42 cleaning and servicing each In addition, we provided on- feet, 4 inches high from the part, and re-assembling them The speed of Pan Am’s Jet Clippers was combined with the the-job training at our New ground to the top of the tail, and into trouble-free units. skill of an eye surgeon to restore vision to a blind person in York and San Francisco bases has a wingspan of 139 feet, 9 India through the successful transplantation of eyes willed to A staff of 400 employees now last year for 29 PIA ground inches. mans our jet engine overhaul supervisors. More PIA em­ Pan American’s overseas DC- an eye bank in Rochester, New York, by a physician. base at Idlewild. It is expected ployees are expected to partici­ 8C is the first jet airliner deliv­ Speed is of utmost importance in such operations. The eyes than another 600 will join their must be transplanted within 72 hours after the death of the ranks by the end of the year. pate in this program. ered with leading edge slots in donor. The Idlewild jet engine facil­ the wings. These high-lift de­ The mercy mission got under way with an urgent request from vices, which function when the Doctor William C. Caccamise, a Rochester ophthalmologist, who, ity, built at a cost of nearly flaps are lowered, permit the after studying diseases of the eye in India during 1952, opened $5,000,000, overhauls the powerDC-8C’s to land and take off an eye clinic at Patna Dibhar, 293 miles north of Calcutta, last plants of all Jet Clippers in the System. It was opened in June, in relatively short distances. November. A cable from him to the Rochester Eye Bank set in Pan American, the first air­ motion the dramatic sequence of events which brought sight to 1959, and already is being en­ Pan American will maintain larged at a cost of $1,841,000 to a total staff of 1,761 persons at line to order and operate Amer­ a blind person halfway around the world. SFO by June with an annual ican-built jets, currently has 23 Soon after the donor of the eyes, a prominent Rochester handle an increased workload. jets in operation, serving 42 physician, died, his eyes were packed in glass jars containing a By May, the present jet en­ payroll of $16,346,928. At the same time the fre­ cities in the United States, liquid preservative. The jars were then placed in a picnic jug gine overhaul building will be quency of jet flights in and out Europe, South America, the packed with ice. The eyes were flown to Idlewild by American expanded by 50 per cent. The of San Francisco will be in­ Middle East and Asia. The Pan Airlines, from Idlewild to Calcutta by Jet Clipper, and from expansion includes a second creased. Am fleet consists of 17 Boeing Calcutta to Patna Dibhar by Indian Airlines. The ice was re­ test cell, where engines receive a final runup before being put This was revealed by Execu­ 707-321 Intercontinentals and plenished periodically enroute. tive Vice President Robert B. six of the shorter range 707- In a letter to Tom Hoctor, Public Relations IDL, Dr. Caccamise back into service. In addition to engine over­ Murray, Jr., following the crea­ 121’s. said: haul, all equalized services and tion of the new Overseas Divi­ The complete Pan American “. . . I sincerely appreciate the wonderful and efficient manner important part of the over­ sion with headquarters at Idle- jet fleet will be made up of 50 in which Pan Am handled the delivery of the eyes from the an haul of components for Pan Am’s wild. aircraft, 21 DC-8C’s, 23 Boeing Rochester Eye Bank to me here in India. Their safe and expedi­ Clippers, regardless of the In November, before the move 321 Intercontinentals and six tious arrival after such a long trip is proof of the thorough Jet part of the System in which they (Continued on page 9) Boeing 707-121’s. know-how of Pan American . . .” (Continued on page 8)

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