Classroom clipper, Vol. III, No. 2, December 1946

              NEW DOMESTIC AIR ROUTE SYSTEM PLANNED
Thirteen border cities of the United States will be connected with each other and the rest of the world if Pan American World Airways plans now before the Civil Aeronautics Board are approved. The plan proposes a high-speed aerial transportation system connecting all of Pan American’s gateways in this country.
The airline proposes to use in this service the Boeing Stratocruiser and the Republic Rainbow, offering speeds of up to seven miles per minute.
The Government has permitted many of the domestic airlines to enter into the overseas aerial transportation picture. It has certified routes for several European carriers to, into, and across the United States. In line with this policy of competition in all fields' of aerial transportation, the Civil Aeronautics Board has advanced consideration of Pan American’s domestic route program.
It was in accordance with this policy that Pan American World Airways, heretofore confined exclusively to the overseas air transport field, submitted its domestic routes program to the CAB. Public hearings on the application began November 6.
The program, as offered, will be made possible only by the use of the new Boeing and Republic planes.
Both types of Clippers for this new domestic service are well on their way to completion in the Republic and Boeing plants. They were ordered as part of Pan American’s $100,000,000 postwar equipment program.
Even with the fine transport planes now in operation, today’s demands for still faster non-stop transcontinental and border-to-border schedules cannot be met. The high performance of the new Clippers will provide revolutionary advances over existing services or any yet proposed.
Clipper passengers, taking advantage of the time differential, will be able to breakfast on the East Coast and arrive in Los Angeles for 12:30 lunch. Eastbound, aided by the prevailing favorable winds at high altitudes, the Clippers will cross the continent from Los Angeles to New York in slightly more than five hours. From Chicago to New Orleans, flying time will be two hours, less than half the present five-hour schedule. Because of air-conditioned cabins, Clipper passengers will enjoy ground-level comfort while flying far above the weather.
In planning its domestic services, Pan American does not propose to add any new terminals to the 13 American cities from which its overseas services are now authorized. The Pan American program will simply link those terminals with high
speed domestic service operating in competition with the domestic airlines which have recently been authorized to extend overseas.
Typical proposed flight times for the proposed services are:
hrs. min.
Miami-New York		... 2	30
Miami-Chicago 		. . . . 3	00
New Orleans-New York. . .	. . . . 2	30
T . , I Baltimore } Los Angeles |Washington|	... 5	00
San Francisco-New York. .	.... 5	30
Seattle-New York		.... 5	15
Los Angeles-Chicago		.... 4	00
Los Angeles-Detroit		... 4	30
Los Angeles-New York. . ..	.... 5	15
New Orléans-Chicago		. ... 2	00
Houston-New York 		. . .. 3	00
Houston-Chicago 		.... 2	15
New Orleans-Boston		.... 3	15
Miami-Boston 		... 3	15
Los Angeles-Boston		. ... 6	00
The new Clippers of the	Rainbow	type
will be faster by more than a hundred miles per hour than any transport in use today. Republic engineers rate them at 430
SOUTH PACIFIC SECTION
This issue of Classroom Clipper includes a special section on the South Pacific area, beginning on Page 3. Next issue, appearing February 1, will feature Mexico, Central America and the West Indies.
miles per hour for transcontinental flights. Boeing Stratocruisers will fly at about 340 miles per hour.
The thirteen cities to be linked by the proposed non-stop program are New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore-Washing-ton, Chicago, Detroit, Miami, New Orleans, Houston, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Connections will be provided to all parts of Latin America, Alaska, Honolulu, New Zealand and Australia, Japan, China, the Malay Peninsula and Java, the Philippines, Siam, Indo-China, India, Arabia, Turkey, Italy, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Belgium, England, Lisbon, Ireland, the Azores, Bermuda, Newfoundland, all parts of central America, all parts of South America and down South Africa to Capetown.
As part of the above schedules, Pan American will offer a round-the-world service.
Air transport has become of equal importance to a nation with military air power. Military aircraft guarantee the territorial integrity of the country. The commercial aircraft have become a guarantee of the economic status of the country. Without fast speedy transportation for the business man to all parts of the world foreign trade success would be almost an impossibility.
In 1927 Pan American started flying from Miami to Havana. It has pioneered commercial routes the length of Latin America and across the Atlantic and the Pacific. It carried the American Flag by air to the rest of the world.