Sales clipper, Vol. 20, No. 7, July 1962

              Clippers Log 100,000 Atlantic Crossings
The departure of Pan Am’s 100,000th Atlantic crossing July 2 was vastly different from the take-off of history’s first flight of paying passengers by aircraft across the Atlantic on June 28, 1939.
On that day, 5,000 spectators cheered and a brass band played as 22 passengers filed out on a pier at Port Washington, Long Island to board Clipper Dixie, a flying boat capable of cruising at 150 m.p.h.
The plane, a Boeing 314, flew to Marseilles, via the Azores and Lisbon, in 29
«ours and 20 minutes.
Since the historic first flight, Pan Am as carried 3,590,000 passengers across the Atlantic and now operates 204 transatlantic passenger flights every week.
From New York to London, Flight 2 of July 2 was commanded by Captain Robert D. Fordyce and From London to Beirut by Captain Benjamin S. Harrell. Both pilots were junior officers aboard the Dixie Clipper in 1939, and their com-
CACHET . . . Design applied to mail carried on 100,000th Atlantic crossing.
bined flight experience totals more than the number of years that have elapsed
since the Wright Brothers first flew at Kitty Hawk, N. C.
Also on the crew was Kenlynn Williams, OD Stewardess, who was born on the day in 1939 that the Dixie Clipper made time fly.
At first, Pan Am’s flying boats made the tranatlantic crossing twice a week, and service was maintained to Lisbon until after December 7, 1941 when Pan Am facilities and crews went to work for the U.S. Government.
In 1945, a Pan Am DC-4 became the first landplane to make a commercial crossing of the Atlantic. It was followed a few years later by the double-decker Boeing Stratocruiser.
In rapid sequence, faster, larger DC-6B and DC-7C Clippers followed, until, in 1958, Pan American inaugurated jet passenger service across the North Atlantic under the American flag with Boeing 707 Jet Clippers.
TWENTY YEARS SERVICE . . . Cecil W. Moore, left, Assistant Vice President—Traffic and Sales Administration, receives congratulations on his 20th anniversary with Pan Am from Willis G. Lipscomb, Vice President—Traffic and Sales.
Mid-Atlantic Service Begins; Jets Now Link Miami, Europe
A transatlantic “sunshine” route with two jet flights a week in each direction has been inaugurated by Pan American between Miami and Lisbon.
At Lisbon, the flights merge with other Pan Am flights to Spain, France, Italy and to Africa, linking with other air services to all parts of Europe.
From Miami, the southernmost international air terminal in the United States, Jet Clippers make the 4,728 mile flight to Lisbon with one stop in 10 hours and 15 minutes. A one hour and 15 minute stopover is included at San Juan, Puerto Rico.
First U. S. Service
The flights mark the entry of a U. S. flag airline on the lower latitude, longer mid-Atlantic route.
The service also links Florida with Europe for the first time by through U. S. jetliners, placing many cities in the Western Hemisphere hundreds of miles closer to European capitals. The route opens a convenient airlane for
millions of potential travelers.
Miami has long been a hub for Latin American Division flights to Central and South America and the Caribbean. Within the last year it has also become the eastern terminus of domestic services across the southern U. S., linking Florida and California.
This route provides a natural feeder line for the new route from Miami to Puerto Rico and across the mid-Atlantic to Lisbon.
The schedule calls for departures from Miami Tuesday and Saturday afternoons, arriving in Lisbon early the following morning. Return flights leave Lisbon Wednesday and Sunday afternoons, arriving in Miami the same evening, thanks to the six hour time difference.
Arrivals at Lisbon merge with a connecting Clipper flight to Barcelona, Nice and Rome on Sundays as well as with Clipper schedules down the west coast of Africa to Dakar, Leopoldville and Johannesburg.
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