Pan American clipper, Vol. 25, No. 19, September 15, 1966

              Fall-Winter Flights Are the Most
The largest a irlift for fallw inter travel in the history of air tran sp o rtatio n has been scheduled by Pan American. The fall-w inter schedule in­ cludes a record num ber of flights across the Atlantic, to the Caribbean and across the Pacific. P an Am will have 204 week­ ly tran satlan tic flights, an in­ crease from 198 flights during this same period last year. H ighlights of the fall-w inter schedule also include the first direct flights from both S eat­ tle and P ortland to P aris, via the Polar Route, and additional nonstop flights from New York to Buenos A ires and Rio de Janeiro. Pan Am estim ates th a t its passenger total fo r 1966 for all its routes will reach nearly seven million, compared to the 1965 total of 5,840,000. Favor­ able factors in the last quarter are low excursion fares to E u ­ rope, the Caribbean and South Am erica; the high season in opera, theater, sports and so­ cial events in E urope; summer attractio n s in South Am erica; and the increasing pace of tourism to the resorts of H a­ waii and the Caribbean. On its tran satlan tic service, P an Am will offer daily service from New York to London, F ran k fu rt, Munich, Istanbul, S tu ttg a rt, B eirut, P aris, Rome, Barcelona, Nice, and Lisbon. There also will be daily flights to London from San F ran-

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Volume 25 September 15, 1966 No. 19

JFK Letting Out Seams For Jumbo Jets, SSTs
John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York is being expanded more than 25 percent under a 10-year, $150 million program designed to keep pace with the onrushing era of the jumbo 747 jetliners and supersonic transports.
Pan Am expects to be flying the first 490-passenger Boeing 747’s in 1969, and th e 300-pas­ sen g e r. supersonic je ts a few years later. (H arold E. Gray, P resid en t of P an A m erican A irw ays, told an audience in London Ju ly 6 that P an Am would p rep are fo r the era of the jum bo 747 and the SST by trip lin g its facilities at Kennedy A irp o rt over the next fo u r years. CLIPPER, July 15.) Work on general airp o rt fa ­ cilities will be done by the P o rt of New York A uthority, w hich operates all m ajor airp o rts in the New York City area. Its ex­ ecutive director, A ustin J. Tobin, said the v ast expansion was needed to “keep pace w ith the phenom enal grow th of a ir traffic” th ro u g h the w orld’s largest in tern a tio n al a ir -g ate­ way. To help accom m odate the jumbo and SSTs, th e P o rt A u­ thority will decommission ru n ­ way 7-25 in fav o r of taxiw ays. Existing taxiw ays inboard to the I n te r n a t i o n a l A rr iv a ls Building and p resen t term inal buildings will be relocated to make land available fo r ex­ panded term in al facilities and new aprons. A lthough the airdrom e will be reduced to fo u r active ru n ­ ways, some 14,000 feet of new taxiways and additional apron facilities will be made available to assist in a irc ra ft ground movement, th e P o rt A uthority said. In itial taxiw ay and apron construction alone will cost $13 million. U nder th e m aster expansion Program, the p resen t 655-acre boundaries will be pushed out to 837 ac res—about th e size of Central P ark in New York. The expansion program was Prompted by estim ates th a t pas­ senger traffic a t Kennedy A ir­ port will more th an double over the next 10 years while air cargo operations will increase threefold and a irc ra ft move­ ments by one-third. In 1965, Kennedy A irport bandied some 16.2 m illion passengers, 417,000 tons of cargo and 356,000 a irc ra f t movements. Tobin said th e expansion pro­ gram a t Kennedy A irp o rt would in no way a lte r the need fo r an o th er large je t a irp o rt in the M etropolitan New York area. “We need both a bigger Ken­ nedy and a new je tp o rt to pro­ vide fo r the capacity needed to accom m odate the coming era of jumbo jets.” While the Kennedy expansion program is underway, the P o rt A uthority will continue its “unrelenting” efforts to ob­ tain a site fo r a new jetport, he said. (See map on page 8.)

Stewardesses Baerbel Eichborn and Gisela Pantwich escort 6,000th piglet into Berlin.

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As Hoglift Helps Orphans
J5y Harold Kosel
BERLIN—As the big Pan Am 707 Jet Cargo Clipper rolled to a stop on the ramp at Tegel Airport in West Berlin a throng of newsmen, photographers, TV cameramen and VIP’s of assorted distinction followed in step as the ladder was rolled to the hatch. IGS stewardesses Gisela Pantwich and Baerbel Eichborn walked smartly up the ladder to greet and hang a garland of flowers around one of the most extraordinary “excors” ever to fly Pan Am in Germany—a 40pound pig! The honored, young pig was the 6,000th pig to be airlifted by Pan Am from Hamburg to West Berlin. Pan Am began flying livestock from West Germany to West Berlin on a regular basis in April, when East German authorities restricted the surface transpor­ tation of livestock through East German ter­ ritory to West Berlin. As the flash bulbs popped and the TV cameras hummed the young porker was sur­ rounded by well-wishers and inquiring news­ men. Then the 6,000th pig was introduced to the very first pig that Pan Am flew into West Berlin, a husky 550-pounder. But the big fellow had less to be happy about, since Pan Am had donated him to a Berlin orphanage where, he later that day, was reduced to 360 tasty pork cutlets for the enjoyment of an equivalent number of delighted youngsters. As the cutlets were served, the orphans’ eyes lit up when they saw the delicious meal. One six-year-old boy told a Pan Am repre­ sentative : “Uncle, during the whole week we very seldom eat meat in this size. “Now, I’ll tell you a secret, as soon as I’m grown up, I will become a pilot . . . seeing the whole sunny world . . . that is wonderful, the whole sunny world . . . I can become a pilot, can’t I, Uncle?” The Pan Am man could only say: “Ja, mein Junge, Du kannst” (yes, my boy, you can).

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New Falcon Climbs Like A Big Bird
F an Je t Falcons, m arketed by the Business Jets Division of P an Am, have a slightly new look. From a irc ra ft 40 on wingtip extensions have been added, and protruding antennas sub­ tracted, in a product improve­ m ent program _aim ed a t fu rth e r increases in perform ance. You’d probably have to meas­ ure two Falcons to know which one had the extension. The differ­ ence in wingspan is less than three feet on a total of 53 ft. six inches. There is an increase in wing area from about 430 sq. ft. to 441 sq. ft. The first of the a irc ra ft w ith these changes, designated Step 2 of the Falcon Product Im prove­ m ent Program , arrived in the U.S. A ugust 10 from France. The addition has resulted in definite gains in perform ance. The Falcons now have reduced runw ay requirem ents, a higher ra te o f climb, and better cruise perform ance. Falcons earlier than the 40th a irc ra ft can be fitted w ith the new w ingtips as p a rt of the im­ provement program . The k it in­ cludes the antenna suppression and wingtips.

Orphan eats high on the hog from first pig airlifted into Berlin. Wine bottle holds candle.