Pan American clipper, Vol. 27, No. 13, July 1, 1967

              10,000th RTW Flight Set for July 11
Pan American will make its 10,000th round-the-world flight on July 11. The 707 Jet Clipper will take off from New York on its 50-hour, 46-minute, elapsed time eastward flight only a short time after the 20 th anniversary of the world’s first commercial round-the-world flight, launched by Pan Am on June 17, 1947. Today’s time over a route of approximately 20,000 miles is more than two and one-half times faster than the 135 hours for the 1947 flights. This tremendous increase in the mobility of people and goods has played an important role in strengthening international friendship and trade. It is the 575-mile-an-hour jet’s speed, for example, that today enables leaders of governments to be in cabinet meetings more than 6,000 miles from New York one day, then appear the next day before the United Nations to participate in delicate diplomatic debate aimed at maintaining world peace. Although air transport has cut the world to one-third of its 1947 size, aviation leaders say it even­ tually can be scaled down to PAN AM’S GIRL FROM C.A.R.G.O. has one mechanic village-to-village travel propor­ hollering U.N.C.L.E. after he removed tire from her C.A.R. tions. Other mechanic has removed the engine so she wouldn’t G.O. But go-go she will, after putting in her time as the NYC-LON: 26 MINUTES Cargo Clipper calendar girl for July-August. Purpose of the Looking into the foreseeable calendar photo is to show that anything goes on Clipper future, they see rocket-propelled Cargo planes: from wristwatch on tire-jockey’s wrist, to craft carrying 1,200 passengers autos, to spare parts. Honest, that’s the purpose. from New York to London in 26 minutes, or to Hong Kong in an hour. Satellites orbiting in outer space will provide communica­ tion links and navigational guid­ ance. For the more immediate fu­ ture, Pan American is working on plans and schedules for the 400-passenger Super jet it will put into service in September, The Pentagon has awarded Pan American an $82.8 mil­ 1969, and the following super­ lion contract to carry military personnel and cargo in 1968. sonic transports flying 1,450 to The contract was the largest of those awarded to 22 1,800 miles an hour. -The Com- carriers fo r th e fiscal yea r, beginning- J u l y 1, 1967. T o g eth er,

Volume 27

July 1, 1967

No. 13

It W ill Be 3 a Week For New Osaka Service
Pan American will become the first airline to offer nochange-of-plane service to Osaka, Japan, from California and Hawaii on August 1. Osaka, the industrial and commercial heart of western Japan, will receive three-times a-week service, with crews and including Sales Manager Tsuaircraft overnighting in Osaka. tomu Akata. The ticket office is The new service will be part located at the Hotel Osaka of Pan Am’s Los Angeles-Hono- Grand, with a two position pas­ lulu-Tokyo daily flights. On senger ticket counter. Wednesdays, Fridays and Sun­ Pan Am facilities at Itami days Pan Am Flight 819 will Airport are now under negotia­ continue on from Tokyo to tion with Japan Air Lines and Osaka. have not been finalized, al­ Westbound, Flight 828 will though there will be a small leave Osaka on Mondays, Thurs­ office with a supervisory Pan days and Saturdays, and will Am staff. continue from Tokyo to Hono­ Pan Am recently became the lulu and Los Angeles on a daily first airline to land with a Boe­ basis. ing 707 at Itami Airport, in Pan Am opened its Osaka conjunction with Pan Am’s first sales office in 1959. There are round-the-world charter out of currently 13 employees there, Paris.

We Win Top Award For Military Airlift

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they total $485 million.

It’ s All How You Read It
Oh, advertising men are a clever breed! Using advertising’s latest technique of the “put-on” (borrowed from the comedian’s repertoire), Pan Am’s ad men ran two ad­ vertisements in The York Times one day last month, each ad under the heading, NEW YORK GETS A GREAT NEW DAILY. Newspaper-starved New Yorkers who, in the past year, have seen their city’s dailies dwindle from six to three because of mergers and failures, seized on the ads — thinking they heralded the arrival of a new newspaper. The smaller print in the Pan Am ads told of new non-stop daily services from New York to Amsterdam, and from New York to Brus­ sels—each service starting July 1. The caption on the ads was really a “fakeout,” which is the primary ingredient of a “put-on.” And no group was more faked-out than newsmen. In the National Broadcasting Co. newsroom in New York, for instance, people did double-takes, and then, straightfaced, joined the light-hearted conspiracy and showed the ads to their colleagues. The fun was, everybody had been “had.” Americans enjoy that sort of thing, if it’s done in a good-natured way. The most enjoy­ ment of all came when the first planeloads of people took off from JFK on the non-stop runs to Amsterdam and Brussels. To them, each service was, in a phrase, A GREAT NEW DAILY.

The contract with Pan Am will, among other things, con­ tinue to provide for the trans­ portation of U.S. troops from Viet Nam on Rest and Rehabili­ tation leaves. The R&R passen­ gers are flown on jet and piston aircraft. Pan Am’s 13 DC-6s make ap­ proximately 14 daily R&R flights between the key departure points in Viet Nam—Saigon, Danang and Cam Ranh Bay—and Taipei, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Penang. The airline’s current daily round-trip mail and cargo jet flight between San Francisco and Cam Ranh Bay and Danang will continue. In addition, a daily cargo charter flight will operate between Travis Air Force Base, 50 miles northeast of SFO, and

Saigon. Jet Clippers also fly R&R trips daily from Viet Nam to Honolulu and Japan. Under the 1968 contract, an expanded concept in cargo de­ livery by scheduled cargo service will be initiated: as much cargo as is feasible will be carried on scheduled flights along parallel routes to military bases in South­ east Asia, other areas of the Pacific and across the Atlantic, too. These deliveries will be made in addition to specific cargo char­ ter flights contracted for by the Pentagon. Commercial airlines now carry about 35 per cent of military cargo shipments and 90 per cent of Armed Forces personnel. The 1968 contracts are worth $144 million more than those signed for fiscal 1967.

Viet Nam Hero Goes On R&R&R&R . . .
By Alan Brook
SAIGON — Keith Hadfield is just an ordinary American boy who was getting shot at in Viet Nam. Then it was time for him to take his R & R. Hadfield, a Specialist 4 with the 25th Infantry Divi­ sion’s 5th Battalion — the Wolfhounds — is from East St. Louis, Illinois. He had just been decorated for valor in the field but, as he arrived at Tan Son Nhut Airport in Saigon, what was on his mind was R and R. And R. He got it. And how. He had noticed the bus out of the corner of his eye, and the crowd of newsmen and TV cameramen. There was also a colonel hanging around. But Hadfield was go­ ing on R and R and what he saw most of all was the Pan Am Jet Clipper. His plane. Hadfield didn’t know it, but he was only seconds away from becoming a symbol. It began with a tap on his shoulder. The tapping finger belonged to Col. Raymond Hitchcock. Hadfield stopped to listen to the colonel talk. His name had been called out for the flight and now a colonel wanted to talk to him. “Congratulations,” said the colonel. “For what?” Hadfield said, hoping the whine he heard wasn’t the engines of his plane starting. His plane. He had almost made it up the ramp, into the wonderful world of R and . . . “. . . the 250,000th soldier to go on R arid R.” Lights. Camera. Action. Handshakes. “Deserving sym­ bol,” somebody said. They led Hadfield away from the airplane. The colonel presented him with a sash. Hadfield took it, looking slightly dazed. It’s all down on TV film. Hadfield had the luck to be the 250,000th GI that Pan Am has flown out of hell into paradise, in a little over a year of operating the R and R flights from Viet Nam. In another year, the air­ line will have flown 500,000 soldiers for five-day vacations from war. Keith Hadfield stood on the airfield with a sash in his hand, and smiled. A lot of people started walking to­ ward him, lifting their feet over the TV cables and keep­ ing out of the photographers’ way. They bore gift certifi­ cates for Hadfield. Hadfield, thanks to the cer­ tificates from many of the contractors and suppliers who help make R and R something to look forward to—and back on—now owns a Seiko wristwatch, three custom-made suits (when he stops off to get fitted), and several fistfulls of vouchers from gift and specialty shops. There was also a certificate entitling him to a suite in the Siam Inter-Continental Hotel, the suite that’s usually occu­ pied by generals, at the least. Hadfield • did board the plane. So did a six-man (Continued on Page 2)