Pan American clipper, Vol. 22, No. 5, September 1963

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OVERSEAS DIVISION
Volume 22 September, 1963 No. 5

Whoosh! Pistons Passe
The revolution in in te rn a ­ tio n al trav e l achieved by the je t age reaches an o th er m ile­ s to n e w h en P a n A m e ric a n A irw ays begins its fa ll and w in­ te r schedules on Septem ber 29 w ith o u t a single piston service am ong 250 tra n s a tla n tic and tran sp acific flights each week. P an A m erican has scheduled 158 tra n s a tla n tic flights per week and 92 transpacific flights d u rin g th e fa ll and w inter m onths— a record num ber d u r­ ing a period once known as the “off season.” The la st piston-engined flight will make its final crossing on Septem ber 28, flying from L is­ bon to New York. The only scheduled piston services oper­ ated by P an A m erican th e re ­ a fte r will be sho rt-haul flights in th e South Pacific, C entral A m erica, A laska, th e C aribbean, and between B erlin and other cities in W est Germany. W ith a 19 p er cent increase in th e n um ber of tra n sa tla n tic flights over the sam e period fo r la st year, the schedule fe atu res th e first je t service to Iceland and to th e Azores and th e in­ a u g u ral of P an A m erican je t flights to Scotland. In addition, P an A m erican is in creasin g je t service from B altim ore to E urope from th ree a week to daily, and is in tro ­ ducing je t service from Boston to th e Azores, Lisbon and A frica. In the Pacific, P an A m erican is adding an additional flight each week from th e W est Coast d irect to Tokyo nonstop via the g re a t circle route. The first je t service to Keflavik, Iceland, serving th e capital city of Reykjavik, will leave

PAA Traffic Soars ToAll-Time Record
DASSAULT ten-passenger Baby Jet transport.

New Division to D eal In Frenth 'Baby' Jets
Franklin Gledhill, President of Business Jets, a Division of Pan American World Airways, announced on August 5 the conclusion of a long-term contract with the Dassault Aircraft Company of France for the purchase and distribution in the
U nited S tates, Canada, and L atin A m erica of th e new D as­ sa u lt ten -p assen g er Baby J e t tran sp o rt. The Baby J e t was developed from the M ystere 20 now being bu ilt by D assau lt in p a rtn e rsh ip w ith Sud Aviation. D assault builds the M irage III, F ra n c e ’s supersonic je t fighter. Sud A via­ tion builds the Caravelle, the popular m edium -range tw in-jet tra n sp o rt of which 150 are in airlin e service in the U nited S tates and th ro u g h o u t the world. C arrying ten passengers and a flight crew of two, th e new Baby J e t will have a cruising speed of 540 miles p er hour, com parable to large airlin e je t tran sp o rts. The Baby J e t will have a range of 1,600 miles plus ap p ro p riate fuel reserves. N or­ mally, it will take off and land from 4,500-foot runw ays. B uilt to m odern airlin e stan d ard s, the passenger cabin has headroom of 67 inches, w idth of 74 inches, and length of 23 feet, fo u r inches. Several years ago, P an Am­ erican organized its B usiness Je ts Division to a ssist in the developm ent of a sm all, b u t effi­ cient, low-cost je t tra n sp o rt use­ ful to U.S. corporations over­ seas, as well as in dom estic service. B usiness a irc ra ft have long been used in the U nited S tates to tra n sp o rt com pany officials, engineers, salesm en and tech ­ nicians betw een company offices and plants. S u b stan tial trav el tim e is s^ved, often when fr e ­ quent scheduled service is avail­ able by rail and air. B usiness a irc ra ft, however, have been little used in foreign trade. A sm all je t of g re at speed and range able to utilize sm all airp o rts was lacking. A service to cope w ith a irp o rt form alities and language difficulties abroad was needed. F lig h t planning and “enroute flight w atch” service were required before A m erican

The JT-4: 'Perpetual Motion'?
One hundred and ten Round the-W orld trip s—th a t’s how long our JT-4 engines can operate be­ tw een com plete overhauls a t our J e t E ngine O verhaul Base at IDL. On A ugust 16, Division M ain­ tenance Mgr. E. R. “Ned” Bos sange, Jr. reports, the Federal A viation Agency authorized us to operate the JT-4 engines which power our DC-8 and Boe­ ing Intercontinental J e t Clippers 4400 hours between overhauls. T h at’s the highest “TBO”—tim e between overhauls— in the in­ dustry. “The efforts of the entire Pan Am erican operating and m ain­ tenance team resulted in the proven reliability which enabled the FAA to authorize this TBO extension,” Mr. Bossange com­ mented. “The JT-4 engine was excel­ lent to s ta rt with, and our tech­ nical people have developed many modifications to make it even b etter,” he added. In addition, the engines are “babied” by pilots and flight en­ gineers in the air. T heir handling of the power plants dovetails w ith the ground work of highlytrained mechanics whose work m ust m eet the critical eyes of inspectors and supervisors. Small wonder, then, th a t Mr. Bossange glows: “Official recog­ nition of the perform ance of this worldwide team is very g ra tify ­ ing.”

Ju ly was the busiest traffic m onth in P an A m erican’s history, w ith a 31.2 p er cent increase in our tra n s a tla n tic traffic b rin g in g our sh are of the to tal tra n s a tla n tic a ir traffic to 25.1 p e r cent fo r th e first seven m onths of 1963—the h ig h est p ercentage of any c a rrie r and a sh arp increase over our 21.9 p er cent share fo r the sam e period of 1962. O ur 31.2 per cent increase in tra n s a tla n tic traffic came d u rin g a m onth when combined traffic flf all tra n s a tla n tic ca rriers increased 8.4 per cent. O ur sh arp rise was achieved w ith only an 11 p er cent increase in capacity. We carried 55,600 more passengers across th e A tlantic durin g 1963’s first seven m onths th a n d u rin g the sam e period of 1962. This rep resen ts a co n trib u tio n of an estim ated $17 million tow ard th e U nited S tates balance of paym ents. W orldwide, we flew 763,217,000 revenue p assen g er m iles on our scheduled services d u rin g July, an increase of m ore th a n 10 p er cent over Ju ly of 1962. F o r the first seven m onths of th e year, P an A m erican flew 3,922,000,000 revenue passen g er m iles—more in seven m onths th a n in all of 1958, the y ear P an A m erican in au g u ra ted J e t C lipper service. The Jan u a ry -Ju ly to tal was 13 p er cen t above la st y e a r’s figure fo r th e com parable m onths. Traffic increases w ere reported in all segm ents of P an A m erican’s in tern a tio n al ro u te netw ork w ith the g re a te st in ­ creases on tra n s a tla n tic services.

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We Could Power a Moon Ship
The Overseas Division p u r­ chased enough je t fuel during June to propel a single Je t Clip­ per from the earth to the moon approxim ately th irty times. The Division’s fuel consump­ tion fo r the month totalled 40,000,000 gallons, Division Fuel Supt. Bruce W. Dedge reports. A fte r a b rief session w ith his calculating machine, IDL Dis­ patcher H arrison Mackey ad­ vised the Clipper th a t this vol­ ume of fuel would move one J e t Clipper approxim ately 7,200,000 m iles—or th irty tim es to the moon. Of the total fuel purchased, 26,000,000 gallons was kerosene, the rem aining 14,000,000 JP-4.

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ITALIAN MOVIE STAR CLAUDIA CARDINALE dis­ plays some of the attributes that propelled her to the film heights as she pauses for the Clipper photographer at IDL on her way home to complete work on new movie, “The Time of Indifference.” Miss Cardinale was in New York for the premiere of her starring vehicle, “The Leopard.”