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PAGE TWO THE PIEDMONITOK AUGUST, 1965 VFR with Turby It is most encouraging to note the enthusiasm of everyone in trying to get all the business we can. I would like to acknowledge just a few stations, who have boarded one thousand passengers for the best month in their history. EWN, July 2, had a record with 131 boardings. DAN set a station record for June with 597 boardings. MBC, July 18, board ed 97 passengers on five flights — out of the five flights, only one empty seat left unused. AVL, July 20, boarded 212 passengers for an all-time record. Congratulations to everyone for the fine job you are doing. ! Stopped by GSO the other day and talked to “Curley” Moore — yes, Vernon Moore now has hair, and it’s not a toupee either. Any of you “youngsters” who are getting bald go see Vernon — he has the secret of how to grow hair on your head. Of course, it takes a little “do-ra-me.” Ken Ross and family are spending this week camping at MBC. He tried to leave the impression he was not looking for ward to the trip, but I know better, for at heart, he’s just another Daniel Boone. Another office member, Mrs. Wilma Cook, her husband Reid (INT-M), and their two children recently rent ed a camper for an outing at the beach. They drove nigh on to 700 miles and Wilma could not bring herself around to sleep ing out with such thin walls and roof around her. Of course, Reid, her husband, is an outdoorsman from way back, but he could not convince Wilma this was the way to spend a vacation. So they drove to INT without spending a single night camping. * * * LOVE—The same old game it was ten thousand years ago, ex cept the diamonds have replaced the clubs. BANKER—A man who lends you an umbrella when the sun is shining, and wants it back when it starts raining. THE BEST PLACE TO FIND A HELPING HAND IS AT THE END OF YOUR ARM. FLASH—ATL is now a member of the 10,000 club. They made it in July. Congratulations to all you ATL folks. THE PIEDMONT POSTMAN It is a rare occurrence to receive a letter such as the following — which came to public relations with a check enclosed! Dear Sir; While buying my tickets to come home from school recent ly, I found that when I bought my tickets at Christmas I was undercharged. If the mistake had been made in your favor against me, I would have called you on it, so I feel it should work both ways. The tickets were for travel from Lexington to Wilmington —round trip on the excursion plan. Enclosed is the difference in the two tickets. ($54.81 — $47.88 = $6.93). Sincerely, Diane Anderson Jacksonville, N. C. Here’s another unusual letter received from a little boy in Supply, N. C: Dear Mr. Davis, I want to compliment Pied mont Airlines for the very nicest service they offer. I am very interested in Pied mont Airlines, and keep up with their flights day and night. I have collected a model airplane of Piedmont, a scrapbook, and pamphlets, etc. I try to keep the flights into Wilmington, N. C. and the ones, going south to Myrtle Beach and Atlanta. I read about Piedmont receiv ing the “National Award of Safety” and was very proud of it. I would like to become a steward for Piedmont as soon as I finish high school. You are my most interesting airline .. . because Piedmont al ways has something nice — like the safety award or making new non-stop flights to Washington, D. C., or how they grew in the past couple of years, and how much capital they increased in 1964 than in other years. Yours truly, B. C. THEPiBDmonim Piedmont Aviation, Inc. SMITH REYNOLDS AIRPORT WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. lyoiTojfs ^ k % « An tiANVoir AMocunor * Bonnie Hauch, Editor CORRESPONDENTS THIS ISSUE SHIRLEY SW'ORD CMH FRANK SLONE RMT GLEN A. BURTON DCA K. W. DENNIS ATL H. K. “MARK” TRAIL . CHO FRANK WOODRUFF . MBC JOE FRICK CAE RUTH SHUMATE CRW HOWARD LEWIS BAL LOUISE RAMSEY .. CLT DEANNA MARTIN . ROA GLEN SHANKS . PSK Commercial Aviation Has Exciting Future Let’s refresh our memories a bit and go back about fifty years — to when commercial aviation, in the form of passenger service, first began. In 1926, the scheduled airlines, using single engine bi-planes, carried 5,782 domestic passen gers^ and no international passen gers'. Nine years later (1935), with the help of the Ford Tri- Motor, the figures had jumped to 746,946 domestic passengers and 127,170 overseas passengers. In 1937, the DC-3, along with its predecessor the DC-2, revolu tionized commercial aviation. By 1945, the domestic scheduled air lines carried 4,688,330 passengers in one year, more than four times the number carried 10 years previous. Airlines began extensive use of four engine planes such as the DC-4 and Lockheed’s Constellation shortly after World War II. During the last decade, the combined U. S, scheduled air lines have increased passenger boardings from 35,448,000 in 1954 o 81,774,000 in 1964. Those ten years have seen the airlines change from Douglas’ DC-6’s, to Lockheed’s prop jet Electra, and finally, in 1960, to Boeing’s' and Douglas’ respective pure jet 707’s and DC-8’s These statistics point out not Gonxyiati 25 YEAR PIN T. H. Davis, President, July 2 20 YEAR PIN R. A. Myers, Lead Mechanic, INT, June 22 15 YEAR PIN Hugh Glenn McMahan, Cleaner, INT, June 15 Ben Hong Dunne, Sr. Draftsman, INT, June 16 10 YEAR PIN William F. Matthews, First Officer, DCA, June 1 James B. Minnix,Agent, LOZ, June 1 James A. Woodruff, Agent, LYH, June 1 Herbert C. Fleear, Jr., Lead Ag^nt, ORF, June 8 Paul Norman Masterson, Lead Agent, SDF, June 20 Clyde Rodney Bowers, Agent, ROA, June 21 James Howard Hughes, Lead Agent, SDF, June 21 R. E. Smith, Agent DAN, July 20 George Lipscomb, Agent, ROA, July 21 R. L. McAlphin, Director of Schedules, INT, July 21 James C. McCormick, Agent, CRW, July 22 Dallas Brown, Sr. Radio Techni cian, INT, July 25 Robert K. Waugh, Chief Agent HSP, July 28 5 YEAR PIN William A. Grubbs, Sales Repre sentative, CRW, June 1 George Edward Price, Jr. Ac countant, INT, June 1 Norman Barry Hurley, Agent, CAE, June 13 Cody Eugene Reynolds, Agent, AGS, June 13 Darius Eugene Stewart, Print Shop H'^lper, INT, June 13 Lowell Earl Beach, Agent, SDF, June 16 Daryl W. Loyd, Agent, DCA, July 1 Evelyn Fabrizio, Agent, INT, July 1 George Arnold Ficke, Lead Agent, CVG, July 12 Jess W. Cantline, Agent, JAMTO- CLN, July 16 J. Richard Moran, Flight Attend ant, ROA, July 25 only that the airlines have ex experienced rapid growth and transition, but also, that, as yet, they have not reached a plateau. The growth has by no means even slowed down. The future of the cornmercial airline industry, especially as regards equipment, was the theme of the recent Airline Edi- or’s Conference held in Los Angeles, California. Spokesmen from Boeing, BOAC (British Aircraft Corp.), Douglas, Fairchild-Hiller, and Lockheed discussed their respective air craft in particular and presented the following picture in general. Future Holds All Jet Industry Sometime in the not too dis- ant future, international and ranscontinental travelers will be zooming to their destinations at speeds of up to Mach 3 (3 times the speed of sound.) Pro peller aircraft will be all but obsolete. Medium sized jets will be serving the shorter trunkline routes. Local service carriers will have fleets of smaller jets, such as the DC-9, Boeing 737, and BOAC 111, now being devel oped by almost every major air craft manufacturer. To illustrate the frantic empha sis most of the airlines are plac ing on equipment, in January of 1965, the airlines had 1 billion dollars worth of equipment on order. Astounding as that figure may seem, six months later, it has doubled to 2.2 billion dollars. There will, then, be more equipment, bigger equipment, and, necessarily, more passen gers. It is estimated that 80 per cent of the U. S. population has never flown. Certainly, as air travel becomes the accepted mode of transportation — and it is on its way — a lot of those who make up that 80 per cent will take to the skies. An anticipated large increase in the number of air travelers coupled with an increase in both size and number of aircraft, will present new problems as regards airport facilities and ground transportation. Sonic Boom Overrated One of the widest publicized problems and one that has come strongly to the attention of the public is that of sonic boom associated with the supersonic transport (SST). Although there unquestionably is room for some work in this area, sonic boom has been blown into a bigger problem than it is through some misconceptions. The greatest concern comes from people who live near a proposed “supersonic airport”. The fact is that they will not hear a sonic boom from any air plane arriving at or departing from their airport. The airplane will not go supersonic until it has climbed to a given altitude some 60 to 80 miles from the city; at the same time, letdown and transition to subsonic flight takes place 70 miles or more from target airport. Then, it follows that the only “booms” a city will hear will be from pla,nes that overfly the city. Since the width of the boom path on the ground is about 70 miles, outside of which boom is negligible, proper routing of the SST can conceivably prevent large cities and other specified objectives from receiving any boom at all. Jet noise in itself is some thing else, however. It cannot be eliminated although techni cians have come up wi^h silenc ers, and pilots try to climb as rapidly as possible out of the annoyance areas. Airports them selves, by consolidating into area airports are moving well out side the city limits which also moves subsonic jet noise away from the people. Airport Facilities Must Enlarge With more and more people using airport facilities, and with (Continued on Page Six) JULY T. L. Martin, Jr., Staff Asst., Sales, INT 16 E. W. McKinney, RIC 16 L. S. Simmons, INT 16 C. J^. Smitli, SDF 16 A. T. Watkins, Jr., INT 16 D. J. Carter, Jr. ROA 17 J. B. Moorefield, IN T 17 R. T. Hunter, ROA 18 L. Jaclcson, INT 18 J. B. Rutledge, CLT 18 R. S. Stepp, ROA 18 J. D. Westmoreland, INT 18 C. B. A. Brown, F/0, ORF 19 C. L. Eubanks, INT 19 Deanna Martin, ROA 19 A. E. Rozitus, Capt., ORF 19 R. E. Swaim, INT-FB 19 R. W. Westmoreland, INT-A 19 Charlotte Winfrey, LYH 19 C. H. Wood, INT-FB 19 B. Berkeley, Capt., ROA 20 J. G. Hines, F/A, INT 20 K. Snow, INT 20 Billie Spencer, INT 20 H. C. Thompson, Jr., F/O, ROA ....20 B. G, Watts, F/O, INT 20 R. L. Almon, Capt., ILM 21 M. B. Hembel, Capt., ATL 21 C. L. Ivey, F/O, ATL 21 H. C. Johnson, INT-FB 21 R. L. Plummer, GSO 21 Ruth Shumate, CRW 21 F. C. Nicholson, Dir. of Fit. Safty & Asst, to V. F 22 J. E. Raiford, INT 22 D. Totten, Jr., INT 22 L. C. Woodcock, Jr., F/A, ILM ....22 L. A. Works, INT 22 R. W. Davis, SDF 2.3 Lynn Fantasia, Stewardess, ORF ....23 B'. H. Windley, INT 23 Audry Black, Supv., Stewardess Training, INT 24 P. E. Carter, I NT 24 W. A. Foster, Sales Rep., INT .—24’ L. B. Jackson, Supt. Production Control, INT 24 Nancy Mabe, INT 24 L. G. Miller, INT 24 H. L. Cox, HSP 25 J. C, Doyle, Div. Chief F/A, ILM 25 J. R. Gwynn, INT-FB 25 E. Hardy, Jr., INT :- ..25 B. Johnson, INT 25 E. J. Tompkins, SDF : 25 E. T. Wilson, DAN 25 H. J. Barco, F/A, ORF 26 Anita Carlton, ATL 26 R. W. Goolsby, LEX 26 J. J. Hall, INT 26 M. F. Hinson, INT 26 Diane Poore, DCA 26 F. L. Sfreddo, INT 26 E. W. Shaw, RDU 26 Sue Foster, Stewardess, DCA 27 J. E. Robertson, BLF 27 J. A. Shulley, Dir. of Tariffs, INT 27 J. R. Morgan, CRW 28 P. M. Waddell, INT 28 D. L. Alexander, ATL 30 W. P. Austin, F/O, ILM 30 D. F. Baxley, CAE 30 J. Cluck, AGS 30 J. W. Combs, INT-F 30 L. P. Dennis, F/O, ILM 30 Mary Jane Elkins, FAY 30 J .W. Helms, ROA 30 O. V. Key, INT-M 30 F. D. Underwood, INT 30 R. F. Morfesi, ROA 30 F. T. Poindexter, INT 31 AUGUST J. Baum, Jr., ORF 1 S. P. Brown, Jr., ILM 1 C. W. Bryant, Supt. Eng. Overhaul Shop, INT 1 M. D. Cunningham, DCA 1 (Continued on Page Six)
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