Pan American clipper, Vol. 6, No. 6, July 2, 1947

              PAN AMERICAN
L/PPPR
ATLANTIC DIVISION
Read on four continents and four islands in between
Volume 6
July 2, 1947
Number 6
The Atlantic Division of Pan American World Airways pays tribute to the ten members of the crew of the Clipper Eclipse who remained at their stations during the crash landing in Syria and to whose courage and judgment can be attributed the survival of twenty-two persons.
Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to the families of the seven men who lost their lives:
Captain Joseph Hall Hart, Jr.
First Officer Robert Stanley McCoy Second Officer Howard Thompson First Flight Engineer R. B. Donnelly Second Flight Engineer W. E. Morris First Radio Officer Nelson C. Miles Second Radio Officer Arthur O. Olson The three crew members who survived — Third Officer Eugene W. Roddenberry, Purser Anthony Volpe, and Stewardess Jane Bray — acted with bravery and resourcefulness under most hazardous circumstances and to them we express gratitude as well as thankfulness for their safe return.	•
J. H. Smith, Jr. Vice President
NEW CATALOGUE SYSTEM ADOPTED
W. R. Keagle, Atlantic Division supply manager, announces the completion of the PAA catalogue conversion to System numbers, a change which establishes a uniform method for numbering all supplies.
Through the supervisor of special projects, R. A. Hamilton, of services of supply in the New York System office, and his staff, the System PAA catalogue is rapidly being issued for use in the various Divisions. Several other airlines have already adopted the PAA catalogue setup and there is a possibility that basically the PAA method may be adopted for industry-wide application.
The application of the PAA catalogue in the Atlantic Division has been effected by Stores Agent W. F. Hackett and the stores catalogue group headed by D. J. Caravana, with the help of J. Scally, R. Riegler, W. M. O’Toole, R. Mocerino, A. Hoyt, J. Mitchell, R. Simpson, E. Durand, G. Quinn, J. Cooper and many others in stores.
NEW LIBRARY LOCATION
The Atlantic Division library, formerly located in two branches at North Beach and Long Island City, has now been unified into a single library in Room 205, Long Island City.
Librarian Irene Keefner requests that all PAA-ers at NBA who have books out return them to the new address via Company mail. Assisting Miss Keefner on the library staff are Ann D’Andrea and Helen McHugh.
Capí. Peters9 M. H . Etdred Receive	lO-Year E
Captain Arthur M. Peters, check pilot in chief flight radio officer, are completing 10 this month.
Capt. Peters
M. W. Eldred
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LONDON AIRPORT REPORTS GROWTH
IN FIRST YEAR
by Tom Nelson Trip Supervisor, London
On May 31st, 1946, N.C. 60, then known as Clipper London became the first commercial aircraft to land at London Airport. The passengers on that flight would not recognise the airport today. At that time only one runway was in operation. All passenger reception, Customs, Immigration, etc., was conducted in tents: Operations and Maintenance were housed in ex-RAF motor-earavans, and the only PAA Department to have a regular office building was Traffic.
Since then a tremendous change has taken place. New buildings, still designated as temporary because the airport is not scheduled to be completed until 1951, when a central administration block will replace them, seem to rise every week. There are two reception lounges, one for arrivals and the other for departures.
As if to celebrate its anniversary PAA moved again during the first week of June this year and now has one complete block with a corridor connecting Station Manager and Station Traffic Manager’s private offices, Traffic, Dispatch, Trip Supervision and Communications Departments. Maintenance who for a whole year suffered the indignities of a caravan also moved into a permanent building at the other end of the field.
Three runways are in full operation, the fourth practically finished and a fifth and sixth commenced. Practically every known radio aid has been installed including G.C.A. and S.C.S. 51. A public enclosure was opened on June 1st and on a fine day literally thousands of (Continued on page 4)
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flight operations, and Milton W. Eldred, years with Pan American World Airways
Captain Peters, who was born in Wilmette, 111., was graduated from Marquette University at Milwaukee in 1933 with a B.S. degree in civil engineering. While in college and for the year following he worked for the Federal Government as a civil engineer in Chicago. In 1934 he joined the Naval Air Corps and after earning his wing£ he spent a year on active duty with the fleet, then a year at Pensacola as a fighter plane instructor.
On July 5, 1937, Captain Peters joined Pan American’s Eastern Division in Miami. He spent six months on duty in Trinidad in 1939 and the following year transferred to the Atlantic Division as a co-pilot. In May, 1941, he went to the Pacific-Alaska Division as a first officer and at the end of that year he checked out as a captain in the Eastern Division. He was one of the first pilots assigned to the Africa-Orient Division, in which he served until December, 1945, when he returned to the Atlantic Division as a check pilot.
While with A-O, Captain Peters was among the first pilots to check out in the C-69, the military prototype of the present Constellation, and at one time he held the speed record from Burbank, Calif., to Miami, a trip he made in eight hours, five minutes. To date Captain Peters has made 183 trips across the Atlantic, six across the Pacific, and has logged 9,000 flight hours.
Captain and Mrs. Peters live with their two sons, Neil, 9, and Ned, 6, in East Willis-ton, L. I. There Captain Peters isn’t making much headway with his orchid-raising hobby, started in Florida, but he gets a tremendous kick out of his new job as a volunteer fireman in the East Williston Fire Department.
Comes from New England
Mr. Eldred was born in New London, Conn., and attended Lincoln Technical Institute in Boston. From 1934-37 he worked as a machinist with the Clifford Manufacturing Company in South Boston, and during that period he was a member of the communications branch of the Naval Reserve.
On July 16, 1937, Mr. Eldred joined PAA in Miami as an apprentice radio operator. Soon afterward he became a flight officer and from 1940-41 he was based in Rio de Janeiro, flying the route between Rio and Buenos Aires. In 1941 he transferred from Rio to New York and the Atlantic Division, where he became senior flight radio officer in 1944. The following year he won his present title as chief FRO for the Division.
During 5,600 hours in the air, Mr. Eldred has flown on a number of celebrated flights, including the trip that took Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands back to Europe. Mr. Eldred (Continued on page 4)