Classroom clipper, Vol. I, No. 1, October 1944

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1,3,3 October, 1944	Published by PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS	Vol. I No. I
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f-5-5AIRMEN PREDICT HURRICANE PATH
4 ° Weather Chain Saves Many Lives 1,2,7 By Warning of Big Winds
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Pan American World Airways’ “hurricane watch,” keeping guard over 22 countries and colonies of the Caribbean area, was called into action this Sep-1, 5, 6 tember by the worst wind storm to hit 9, 11 the U. S. east coast since 1938.
[, 3, 4 Working with the U. S. Weather Bu-[, 7,6 reau and other agencies, the air line [, 5,6 weather chain has been described as “the largest life saving institution in [( 2, 4 the world” — because its forewarnings [; 6, 3 enable people in the path of a big wind 1, 7, 5 to prepare for its onslaught and avoid much loss of life and property.
Before the coming of the airplane the islands of the West Indies — and most of the countries around the Caribbean Sea — were at the mercy of these tropical storms, which trace a regular path across the lower West Indies, through the Caribbean and into the Gulf of Mexico on out into the Atlantic, often carrying to the coast of northern Europe.
Lindbergh’s Flight
Although hurricanes have always existed, weather science knows relatively little about them. At the time of Lindbergh’s flight around the Caribbean, in late 1927 and early 1928, there were scarcely a half dozen weather stations in that entire area. The United States Weather Bureau maintained an observatory at San Juan and a station in the nearby Virgin Islands; the Canal Zone Authority had a station in Panama; there was a national observatory in Cuba.
Surface vessels, handicapped by their slow speed, naturally steer clear of threatened areas.
And, lacking the means of detecting approaching storms, and often without adequate communications’ facilities, these Caribbean countries, prior to establishment of the airways weather chain, were at the mercy of hurricanes which, without warning, could sweep in with full force before the communities had a chance to prepare themselves.
Often just as tragic, since hurricanes inevitably put out of commission all telephone and cable communications, the stricken communities were unable (Continued on page 6)
RIO DE JANEIRO—Post war air schedules wiU fit the average vacation and the average pocket book.
ONE DAY FLIGHTS TO B.A. PLANNED
Clipper Fares on Long Routes Will Be Reduced for Mass Travel
A trip to Buenos Aires which a few years ago required 21 days will be made by air, after the war, in 21 hours, at a cost of about $190.
Similar fast flying schedules are planned for all the Latin American capitals and trade centers, and these schedules call for times en route which are less than a third of present travel times.
For example: Present schedules from the United States to Rio de Janeiro require 66 hours en route; future travel time is expected to be 19 hours and 50 minutes. The time to Buenos Aires now is 91 hours and 15 minutes; in future it will be 21 hours and 25 minutes.
These and other greatly abbreviated flight schedules have been filed by Pan American World Airways with the Civil Aeronautics Board in Washington, in connection with the company’s request for authority to operate more direct express services in South America to Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires and (Continued on page 2)
WORLD CIRCLING AIRWAY MAPPED
Proposed New Ocean Air Routes Would Complete Network To Major Countries
Two new northern trans-oceanic air routes to Europe and Asia, and extensions which would complete the central American-flag airway around the world —services planned long before Pearl Harbor—are included in applications which have been filed with the Civil Aeronautics Board by Pan American World Airways.
Integrated air transport service to major trade and travel centers on all continents is proposed by the company in its various applications for new services and extensions of its present routes. The company’s Latin American operations would be expanded to provide luxurious but low cost mass air transport facilities, and extension of the African network would reach the continent’s southern tip at Cape Town.
New Routes
Pan American seeks permission to link Seattle and Canton, China, via an extension of its Alaska services from Nome over the North Pacific through Paramushiro, Tokyo and Shanghai. A new North Atlantic air route would link New York and Moscow by way of Labrador, Iceland, Oslo in Norway, Stockholm in Sweden, and Leningrad in the Soviet Union. Moscow, also, as well as Berlin, Paris and Geneva would be served by extensions of Pan American’s pre-war trans-Atlantic routes which terminated at London, Lisbon and Marseilles. The international airline already holds permanent certificates to operate to England, France, Eire and Portugal and is now flying to Foynes, Ireland, and Lisbon.
To expedite international service from the Middle West to Europe, the company has requested authority to operate from Chicago and Detroit, via Montreal, to England and other European points. Only Europe-bound passengers, mail and express would be carried, as P.A.A. does not propose to offer service between points in the United States, or between cities in the United States and Canada.
Additional ports of entry at Boston and Baltimore also have been requested in applications filed with the Civil Aero-(Continued on page 5)