Classroom clipper, Vol. II, No. 5, February 1946

              TAKEOFF FOR BERMUDA—This Lockheed Constellation flew to Bermuda in 2
hours and 22 minutes with a crew of 10 and 42 passengers. It was the inanugural flight for this type of Clipper over the route.
ATLANTIC FLIGHT MAKES A RECORD
Constellation Crosses to Lisbon in 9 Hrs. 58 Mins, following 2-1/3 hr. Bermuda Flight
A new record for commercial air line operation over the Atlantic was set last month when a new Lockheed Constellation of Pan American World Airways flew from New York to Lisbon in 9 hours and 58 minutes.
This was nearly three hours less than the previous record of 12 hours and 57 minutes set in December by a Transcontinental and Western Air crew, also flying in a Constellation.
Captain Scott Flower, who was in command, reported that the Clipper operated at an altitude of 19,000 feet most of the way, but the passengers enjoyed a Comfortable “pressure altitude” of 7,000 feet provided by the cabin supercharging system.
They also had the satisfaction of flying in a consistent record breaker, for less than a week previous to' the Atlantic flight, the same Constellation had established new speed records in both directions between New York and Bermuda.
The Bermuda record was held briefly during January by a Pan American Douglas DC-4 which covered the 773 miles to the coral islands in 3 hours and 22 minutes on the flight which inaugurated land plane service over the sector.
The mark stood only until January 14 when the Constellation made its first flight to Bermuda and covered the distance in 2 hours and 22 minutes, just an hour less than the DC-4’s time, carrying as passengers the delegates to the Anglo-American Civil Aviation Conference in Hamilton, Bermuda.
The official delegation consisted of representatives of President Truman, who were proceeding to Bermuda for a conference with British officials regarding civil aviation problems in the North Atlantic. With newspapermen assigned to cover the conference and air line executives, the passenger list totaled 42, and the plane was operated by a crew of 10.
Aviation writers C. B. Allen of the New York Herald Tribune and John Stuart of the New York Times sent their news accounts back on the Clipper on its return trip the same afternoon, and the copy reached the papers in time to appear next morning—probably the first time daily newspapers have relied upon an airplane
making an important ocean flight to bring back the news stories of it the same day. A record was set during this return flight as well ; it was completed in three hours and 26 minutes. The northbound flight normally requires more time than the flight southbound, since wind conditions are generally not so favorable.
The Constellation’s record is accounted for by the fact that it is designed to fly about 100 miles per hour faster than the DC-4—also, in the case of the southbound flight, by the highly favorable tail wind prevailing.
Service to Bermuda has been in operation since 1938, when it was inaugurated by Bermuda Clipper—a four-engine Sikorsky flying boat. Later thé service was taken
To help public school teachers recognize the impact of the air age upon their jobs and their schools, and to help them do something	about	it,	the	University	of
Omaha last month sponsored the Iowa-Nebraska Air Age Institute for Teachers, held at the university on January 10, 11 and 12.
Formal and informal talks were interspersed with practical demonstrations of classroom technique in presenting aeronautical topics. Proceedings will be published, and information regarding them may be had upon application to Charles Hoff, Business	Officer	of	the	University	of
Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska.
Dr. J. Parker Van Zandt, Aviation Economist of the Brookings Institution enunciated the	theme	of	the	Institute at a
luncheon	meeting which	began it.	For
practical purposes, he said, the airplane
over by the Boeing 314 boats. Meanwhile a British-operated service was conducted, on schedules matching those flown by the U. S. company, in Empire flying boats operated by Imperial Airways (now British Overseas Airways, or BOAC).
Pan American’s flying boat operation continued until last December, when it was discontinued in preparation for the new land plane service which began last month.
Constellations also will be operated on the Atlantic route to the British Isles and Europe, and will make the crossing from New York to' London in 12J-2 hours or less. Constellation service to Marseilles, France has been announced for inauguration February 15, and application has been made by PAA for service to Paris.
makes domestic and foreign affairs indistinguishable.
“Now we are all locked together in the same small room,” he said, and we’ve got to learn to get along together—or else!
“If another war begins, Omaha may well be as much in the front line as New York or Los Angeles. Nebraska is no further from Chungking, say, than is Southern California.”
Dr. Van Zandt developed the various phases of air world geography, economics and trade in a longer address at a later meeting and in two demonstration classes— one a college group studying foreign trade, and the other a high school class in geography.
Progress made thus far in design and manufacture of light planes, and of private
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AIR AGE INSTITUTE AT UNIVERSITY OF OMAHA STRESSES IMPACT OF FLYING ON DAILY LIVING
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