Newspapers / Piedmont Aviation Employee Newsletter / Aug. 15, 1952, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of Piedmont Aviation Employee Newsletter / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Aug, 15, 1952 - ^ = THE PIEDMONITOR - = Page 1 From the President Another new Pacemaker has joined the fleet! With service opening up on the new Knoxville “Norfolk route on August 25, we will need one more airplane to put in operation when 948 comes off the line in late October for overhaul. The newly purchased airplane was a C=47 and will require com- plete modification. When she comes out of the shop in about sixty days, she really ought to be a beauty. We haven’t decided on a name yet “ maybe Shenandoah Pace maker, or Hampton Roads, or Cape Fear, or ; if you’ve got any suggestions send them in. The name must be indicative of an area. By the way, we bet you don’t have a list of our ships’ names. Here they are: Appalachian Pacemaker, Blue Grass Pacemaker, Kanawha Pacemaker, Tidewater Pacemaker, Ohio Valley Pacemaker, Common- wealth Pacemaker, Piedmont Pace maker, Great Smokies Pacemaker, Blue Ridge Pacemaker, Tennessee Valley Pacemaker, Yadkin Valley Pacemaker, and Chesapeake Pace maker. The following compliment- ary remarks are quoted from a letteij I recently received from an airlines executive, that I believe will be of inter est to you: “Recently, I had the occasion to use Piedmont, round trip between Charlotte and Ashe ville as a paying customer, my first trip on Piedmont. Seldom do I write letters of any kind and never before one of this nature, but I was so impressed with your opera tion, 1 can’t resist telling you about it. ‘‘The white paint on your ships to reflect heat does so in a much more effecient manner than I expected, but the blower hook up to the regular venti lation system that produces cool air during ground opera tion was, to say the least, a most surprising and welcome innovation. “Trip 5 to Asheville was af= flicted with the curse of the business, an oversale, but it was quietly and effeciently handled as witnessed by the good nature of the passengers despite the delay and heat; it was 102° that day. (Concluded Next Page)
Piedmont Aviation Employee Newsletter
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Aug. 15, 1952, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75