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VOL. IX, NO. 3
THE BEST WAY TO TRAVEL — ALL OVER PIEDMONTLAND
MARCH, 1967
Piedmont's First Boeing 727 Arrives
March 15 Was First Day of Service;
Passengers Are Delighted
It was a cold Saturday after
noon when Piedmont’s first Boe
ing 727 arrived in Winston-Sa
lem after what must have been
a record four hour flight from
Boeing Field in Seattle.
The enthusiasm of the crowd
on hand out did the weather,
making it an exciting day to re
member for all of Piedmont.
Passenger List
Among the passengers who
had gone to Seattle to bring the
jet home were President Davis,
Vice President Saunders, W. G.
McGee, Captains Tadlock, Mc-
Names and Nicholson. Dick
Hodges, of Liller, Neal, Battle
and Lindsay in Atlanta, First
Officer J. C. Sifford, Bill John
son, George Hendrix and Henry
Wilson also stepped off that
afternoon all smiles and full of
glowing reports of PAI’s newest
equipment.
There wasn’t a lot of time,
from the end of February until
the middle of March, for getting
the Manhattan Pacemaker ready
for passengers. Seats were in
stalled almost overnight and
proving runs were made. The
FAA’s evacuation tests came off
without a hitch while crews and
back-up crews were checked out
day by day.
There were problems when
sometimes the weather was dis-
First 737 Flight
Expected Soon
Two years after Boeing an
nounced it would build the 737
short-to-medium range jetliner,
flight test engineers are ready
ing the first of the new twinjets
for its maiden flight expected
sometime in the next two weeks.
The second 737, now nearly
completed, is in the firm’s
Seattle, Washington, final_ assem
bly building and work is well
along on the third twinjet. Six
more 737’s are taking shape on
the company’s production lines.
Liufthansa’s Plane
The second 737, one of 21 or
dered by Lufthansa-German Air
lines, is scheduled to make its
first flight in May.
Deliveries of the 101-passenger
jetliner are scheduled to begin
toward the end of 1967 after an
extensive flight test program.
The first of Piedmont’s six 737’s
is scheduled for delivery in
March of next year.
Aircraft Design
The 737 is the only twinjet
commercial airliner built with
engines beneath the wings. The
advanced design affords consid
erable weight saving and pro
vides additional passenger space.
Two passenger versions of the
airplane, the 737-100 and 737-200,
are offered with maximum gross
weights up to 108,000 pounds.
Piedmont’s order is for the 737-
200 model. The twinjet will
cruise at speeds up to 580 miles
an hour.
The 737-200 is 100 feet long and
Piedmont’s planes will carry 90
passengers.
The 737 has the same fuselage
width as the Boeing 707, 720, and
agreeabkle, and schedules had to
be adjusted accordingly. But
with Piedmont’s traditional, and
necessarily dependable, coopera
tion between departments, the
newest Pacemaker made its
maidn flight on March 15th.
Commendations
Jet passenger reports have
been glowing in their comments
regarding the service and the
figures tell an even better story.
Despite the fact that weather
has caused more delays and
cancellations than had been anti
cipated, 5,611 passengers had
flown on Piedmont’s jet by the
termination of operations on
March 31st.
For further details and pictures
of the pre-inaugural flight and the
christening of the jet see pages
four and five.
Framed by an INT agent, the 727 touches down in Piedmontland for the first time.
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The 727 zooms over a Martin 404.
Cortwrigbf
Is Named
FAA Judge
H. M. Cartwright, Assistant
Vice President — Maintenance
and Engineering for Piedmont,
has been selected as one of ten
judges to name the winners of
the 1966 Federal Aviation Agen
cy’s annual Aviation Mechanic
Safety Award Program.
Winners will be announced
later this spring, following a
meeting of the judges in Wash
ington.
727 jetliners — 12 feet 4 inches,
providing big-jet comfort on the
twinjet’s short-range routes of
100 to 1,300 miles.
Roanoke claimed to
be the first station
to have all types of
Piedmont equipment
on the ground at
once. From left, the
jet, an F-27, a Mar
tin 404 and a 227B.
The unusual appear
ance of the four dif
ferent planes at ROA
occurred when the
FAA jet proving run
coincided with a 227
training flight. The
F-27 and Martin 404
were making sched
uled stops at Roa
noke.
The first passenger to disembark was President T. H. Davis.