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THE PISDMONITOR
SEPTEMBER, 1959
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September, 1959
Dorothy Preslar, Editor
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY & FOR THE EMPLOYEES OF
Piedmont Aviation, Inc.
SMITH REYNOLDS AIRPORT
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C.
Dorothy Preslar Assumes Editorship
Of Piedmont Employee Publicatiois
Mrs. Dorothy Preslar, recently named editor of the PIED-
MONITOR, assumed her duties August 17. She was formerly
publicist and editor for Old Salem restoration in Winston-
Salem.
Mrs. Preslar will be responsible for gathering news from
stations throughout the Piedmont system and editing the
monthly employee publication.
She also will have some gen
eral office duties.
Before graduating from Wake
Forest College in January,
1958, Mrs. Preslar was associ
ated with MADEMOISELLE
magazine in New York as
guest editor and public re
lations representative.
Wake Forest Grad
At Wake Forest She edited
the STUDENT, which won an
All-American rating for college
magazines throughout the na
tion. She worked also with the
college newspaper.
She is a member of Phi
Beta Kappa and Phi Alpha
Theta. During college she was
elected to the women’.s leader
ship fraternity on campus and
to “Who’s Who Among Stu
dents in Colleges and Univer
sities.”
Mrs. Preslar is a member of
the Wake Forest Baptist
Church. She is the wife of
Lloyd Preslar, religion repor
ter for the Winston-Salem
JOURNAL & SENTINEL.
They live at 508 South Main
St. in W'inston-Salem.
KLAA Dutch Lines
Sets Special Fare
An agreement between
Piedmont and KLM Royal
Dutch Airlines enabling Pied
mont employees to receive a
75% discount on trans-Atlan
tic and European travel has
been announced by General
Sales' Manager Bill McGee.
The discount is available
on a positive space basis on
KLM flights between New
York City and Amsterdam and
that airline’s Euiropean net
work service.
The only restrictions are:
From June 1 to July 15
eastbound flights will be on
a space available basis. From
August 10 to September 7
westbound flights will be on
a space available basis.
Piedmont employees may
apply for the reduction on
standard inter-line pass forms.
The reduction is available also
to eligible members of the
employee’s family.
Propeller History Relates
From Feathers To Turbo
Progress
Blades
With airplane travel becom
ing even more popular, the
odds are that the years ahead
will see you taking to the
air in a propeller-driven
craft, even if you are not
among the nine mil
lion Am.ericans who’ve al
ready done so. Moreover, it’s
likely to be a modern prop-
jet aircraft.
Though prop-driven planes
fly over 31 million passen
gers miles a year, it’s a rare
passenger indeed who knows
the fascinating story behind
the huge blades that pull him
through the ail.
Do propellers look modern
to you?
Da Vinci Invented
As long ago as 1490 Le
onardo da Vinci thought of
them. In fact, he invented an
airscrew and built a model
helicopter with a rotOr made
with feathers. His model flew!
Still others experimented
with propellers, and by 1860
the English had ships using
two propellers (twin-screw
vessels) on the River
Thames.
But more research and de
velopment was necessary. On
December 17, 1903 when the
Wright brothers made their
historic flight at Kitty Hawk,
N. C., one of the main rea-
BIRTHS
ORF Agent Bill Halsey and
wife Doris, Baby girl, Dana
Kay, born June 24.
ORF Agent Buddy Fleear
and wife Joan. Baby boy.
Miles Christopher, born June
29.
LEX Reservation Agent Vir
ginia Black. Baby boy. Name
Date Not Given.
THOUGH PIEDMONT EMPLOYEES are not nebbishes
(supposedly) and F-27’s are not paper planes (for sure),
the news of the Pacemakers apparently is getting around.
The drawing at left was used by the 1st Loudspeaker
and Leaflet Company, a special Warfare psychological
printing unit at Fort Bragg, on a memo pad the company
designed and printed as part of its training.
The memo pad was sent to Piedmont President T.
H. Davis by Harold M. Cotner who works in the Special
Warfare Division, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff
for Military Operations in Washington.
Mr. Cotner, who was a passenger on the maiden flight
of Piedmont’s F-27 service from Fayetteville to Raleigh-
Durham, says, “The F-27 is a splendid and comfortable
plane and you can be very proud of it.”
ROTOL PROPELLERS team with the famous Rolls-Royce
Dart engine as the powerplant on Fairchild F-27 aircraft oper
ated by Piedmont.
sons that they covered no
more than 852 feet was the
fact that printed research
findings cn propeller effici
ency were almost nonexistent.
Questions Asked
How much “twist” should a
propeller have? How long
should it be? How wide should
the blades be? What’s the
best way to make one? All
these questions have been
largely answered, but only
during the last 50 years.
T 0 d £. y, though Ameri
ca battles for world leader
ship in both propeller-driven
and jet aircraft, large num
bers of props are made by
the practiced hands of Bri
tish craftsmanship which still
flourishes in Gloucester, Eng-
Und even in the face of on-
rushing automation.
The most moJern tools are
used to machine the many
intricate parts of a modern
Rotol turbo-jet propeller, but
no machine exists which can
match the artistry of Rotol
handcraft.
Each time you fly on any
one of nearly a hundred air
lines around the world, you
probably will find yourself
in the safe hands of Rotol
prop-jet handcraft. And you
will be flying in planes that
amaze descendants of the
birds whose feathers were
part of da Vinci’s first pro
peller 469 years ago.
Traffic Increases Over Last Year
But Misses System Quota For July
An increase of 22.65% in passengers boarded has been
reported in the first six months of 1959 over the same period
last year, Sales Manager W. G. McGee announced Aug. 17.
“We feel that this traffic increase is significant,” McGee
said, “and in large part is at
tributable to the excellent ac
ceptance of F-27 service.”
He reported that July traf
fic failed to reach the system
quota but show^ed a 32% in
crease over July, 1958.
McGee said the reports were
'‘gratifying” and showed “real
accomplishment” but added,
‘We still have substantial gains
to make in order to realize
our traffic forecast for 1959.”
“It is vitally important that
each of us survey our own
situation as it might relate to
the development of business
and take the steps necessary
to generate additional traffic.”
ROUTES
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terminal point Washington via
Rocky Mount and Richmond
and (b) beyond Goldsboro the
terminal point Washington via
Elizabeth City, Norfolk and
Newport New's.
That service be authorized
to the New River Valley Air
port on Piedmont’s segment 4
for a temporary period.
That Lumberton be added
to Piedmont’s segment 3 for
a temporary period.