Pan American clipper, Vol. 19, No. 6, July 1960

              Buy 3 New Jets But No Engines
Pan American has ordered three more Boeing Intercontinental Jet Clippers — with­ out engines—and has taken an option to purchase a fourth. The new aircraft are scheduled for delivery early in 1961. Engines for the new aircraft will be made available through more efficient use of our

Urge M ore P A A Service to Pacific
In an important step toward gearing the United States’ international air route pattern to the requirements of the Jet Age, Civil Aeronautics Board Examiner William J. Madden has recommended a large scale modernization of Pacific and
Orient services with m ajor route assignm ents for Pan Amencan. The recommendations m ust still be considered and approved by the Civil Aeronautics Board and later by the President of the United States. Mr. Madden’s findings climax a sweeping review of U.S.-flag service across the Pacific begun by the CAB in the spring of 1959 at the request of President Eisenhower who termed this study “essential to our foreign policy.” The examiner’s report to the CAB urged: 1. That Pan Am be allowed to fly to the Orient via the Great Circle route from Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltim ore/ W ashington, Detroit, and Chi­ cago. 2. That Pan Am be certifi­ cated to operate to the Orient from Portland-Seattle as well as from San Francisco and Los Angeles. 3. T hat Pan Am provide di­ rect service between Hawaii and the E ast Coast and Midwest co-terminals. 4. T hat Pan Am’s South Paci­ fic route be extended beyond Sydney, A ustralia, to D jarkarta, Indonesia, and Singapore. 5. That Pan Am be perm itted to use Fairbanks, Alaska, as an interm ediate point on the Great Circle route to the Orient. This new Pacific route pat­ tern would provide close bonds of tourism and commerce be­ tween m ajor population centers of the United States and the Orient. Travelers from the m ajor U.S. E ast Coast and Mid­ west gateways would be offered one-plane service to the Orient and Honolulu. The entire pattern is mapped out on Great Circle shortest point-to-point concepts made possible by the Je t Age and de­ parts from the island-hopping routes which the lim itations of piston airc ra ft originally had dictated. (Continued on page 8)

63rd Dividend
At a meeting on July 12, Directors of Pan American World Airways, Inc. declared a dividend of 20 cents per share payable August 12, 1960 to stockholders of record at the close of business on July 22, 1960. This is the 63rd dividend paid by Pan American. Pay­ ments of 20 cents a share were made on February 11 and May 13, 1960. Dividend payments have been made each year since 1941.

50-STAR FLAG which had greeted the sun over the eastern­ most State of the United States, Maine, on July 4, (U.S. Independence Day and, by custom, the first day on which a flag of new design can be raised) was shipped immediately after sunrise in Maine to Honolulu in the nation’s newest and most westerly state by American Airlines jet and Pan Am Jet Clipper, arriving there at 3 :50 P.M. Honolulu time. Rose Vasquez and Ray Ettinger, flight service personnel who carried the flag from west coast to HNL, are shown presenting it to Sgt. Burke of the U.S. Air Force honor guard which met the flag-bearing flight at HNL. First official raising of the 50-star flag took place in New Zealand, across the International Date Line. The New Zealand flag, provided by Pan Am’s Director for New Zealand J. H. Goding, was symbolically raised by the Auckland Branch of the American Veterans of Foreign Wars at 7 :59 A.M. July 4 Auckland time, five hours and 49 minutes (plus another 22 hours courtesy of the International Date Line and two time zones) before the 50-star flag from Maine arrived in Honolulu. New flag was also raised on Guam and Wake before Honolulu and the continental U. S.

Jets Fill Skies To the Orient
Singapore, Saigon, and Ja k ar­ ta were linked to the United States by overnight flights from Los Angeles when Pan Ameri­ can World Airways inaugurated Je t Clipper service to the three F a r E ast cities on August 1st. On the same date, Pan Am­ erican increased jet service to Manila to two roundtrip flights each week. Manila Jet Clipper service was opened on June 29 with one roundtrip weekly. One flight leaves Los An­ geles a t 8:30 p.m. on Mondays, and, flying via Honolulu, and Guam, arrives at Manila at 7 a.m., local time, Wednesdays, losing a day due to the Inter­ national Dateline. The flight then continues on to Saigon, Singapore, and Jakarta, term i­ nating at Jak arta at 2:40 p.m. The second flight, on Fridays, follows the same schedule to Manila, then continues on to Hong Kong, arriving a t 11 a.m. Sundays. Return flights leave Jak arta at 8 :30 a.m. Thursdays and Hong Kong at 3:15 p.m. Sun­ days. (Continued on page 5)

present supply of jet powerplants. By the time the engine­ less Je t Clippers are ready for delivery, our pool of jet engines will be ample to power the new a ircraft and still meet our re­ quirements for spares without necessitating the purchase of a d d itio n a l e n g in es, D ivision Maintenance M anager Richard M. Adams reports. Our ability to purchase the new a ircraft without engines, which cost approximately $250,000 each, results in a saving of three or four million dollars. A number of factors have contributed to this unique de­ velopment. A significant one is the more rapid growth in the know-how and skill of our Jet Overhaul personnel than antici­ pated in advance plans. The time required to overhaul each jet engine has already been sub­ stantially reduced and will be reduced even more by early 1961. As a result fewer engines will be in the process of over­ haul at any given time, making more engines available for ser­ vice. A big help in this progress is the second test cell which is now in operation at the J e t Engine Overhaul facility at Idlewild, and expansion of the overhaul building itself is now nearing completion. (Continued on page 3)

All-time R e c o rd s Set:

A tlan tic Cargo Increases by 50%
Pan American World Airways carried more than 8,000,000 pounds of cargo across the Atlantic during the first six months of 1960 — an increase of nearly 50 per cent over the comparable period last year
In carrying 8,187,960 pounds of cargo, we set an all-time rec­ ord for this route. Cargo car­ ried westbound to the United States showed an increase of 76 per cent and totaled 4,301,056 pounds. Eastbound cargo totaled 3,903,024 pounds, an increase of 29 per cent over the previous year. Pan American also set an alltime eastbound cargo record during the week ending July 2 when it carried 138 tons of cargo to Europe. This included 177,100 pounds of air freight aboard all-cargo airc ra ft and nearly 100,000 pounds in the cargo compartments of passen­ ger aircraft. The high month in the first half of the year was March when we established a new transatlantic record for com­ mercial carriers by tran sp o rt­ ing a total of 1,569,014 pounds of air freight, exceeding the previous record of 1,438,722 pounds set by Pan Am in October, 1959.

FIRST COEMP wedding in Accra took place on June 6 when Station Accountant Joe McGowan and Miss Christine Green became Mr. and Mrs. in a ceremony at the Holy Spirit Cathedral. Joe formerly worked in the Station Accountant’s office at Idlewild, and Christine worked for the Division Shipping Supt. at IDL. Air­ port Manager Noel Larsen acted as Father of the Bride and Traffic Supervisor Gerry O’Berne was Best Man.