TWA to Lease Trans-Atlantic Radio Teletype

Western Air Lines Lifts Eyebrow at TWA 30-Year Claim See Page Six VOL. 18, NO. 3 TRANS WORLD AIRLINES EMPLOYEE PUBLICATION JANUARY 20, 1955 TWA To Lease O 5HSOAKV A«0 H PAOU" Trans-Atlantic Radio Teletype KANSAS CITY — TWA has con tracted with RCA communications for a leased radio-teletype trans- Names Given New Atlantic circuit for its exclusive use. The circuit is expected to be in use early next summer. Super-G Connies The circuit will provide much BTJRBANK—Names have been as higher power transmitters than signed the 20 new Model 1049 currently in use. It will operate Super-G Constellations to be de between New York and Paris, with livered this spring to TWA by terminal points in LaGuardia and Lockheed Aircraft Co. The new Orly field message centers. aircraft will be numbered in the Messages from overseas will 100 series. Names are as follows: automatically be switched into TWA TWA's 81-D1 domestic teletype Number Name system at LaGuardia. Outgoing 101 Star of Balmoral messages to overseas from any 102 Star of Windsor station on the 81-D1 communi 103 Star of Buckingham cations system will be auto 104 Star of Blarney Castle matically switched into the trans- 105 Star of Chambord Atlantic radio teletype circuit. 106 Star of Ceylon Automatic switching eliminates 107 Star of Carcassonne two manual tape relays at New 108 Star of Segovia York and one at Paris for all mes 109 Star of Granada sages transiting any part of the 110 Star of the Escorial European and domestic teletype 111 Star of Toledo system. The two relays now at 112 Star of Versailles New York are from TWA to 113 Star of Fontainebleu ARINC and from ARINC to its PROUD BEAUTIES promenade along Atlantic City's Joan Ceraso and Connie Piccone, Philadelphia. Just 114 Star of Mont St-Michel New York - Paris radio - teletype famous boardwalk to publicize the Carrier Corp. sales what the gaudy costumes (other than the TWA hostess 115 Star of Chillon circuit. The relay from the present 116 Star of Heidelberg ARINC Atlantic circuit to TWA contest which features a rodnd-the-world trip for two. uniform, of course) are supposed to represent is not 117 Star of Kenilworth will be eliminated at Paris when Shown are Bebe Befu, Japan Airlines; and TWAers made clear, but who really cares when a quintet of 118 Star of Capri TWA gets its own circuit. Doris Thompson and Helen Dishington, New York; cute dishes like this comes strolling along! 119 Star of Rialto TWA communications depart 120 Star of Heliopolis ment has noted a reduction in The first plane will be delivered cable messages sent across the by Lockheed on Feb. 15. Lockheed, Atlantic recently as a result of however, will actually retain this cooperation on the part of all de Pat Condon Plays Detour to Airport Takes aircraft for certification tests and partments in controlling "Rush" TWA will receive the second air category communications. Com craft, to be delivered on Feb. 23. mercial cable service has been re Rescue Role Again duced $600 a month. This service TWAer on 500-Mile Trip is used when the present New DUBLIN—For the second time in York-Paris radio-teletype circuit the past seven years Pat Condon, By Bob Daily Some Dirty Rat Delays fails due to weak radio signals. A senior sales rep, found himself Plane at Kansas City procedure instituted Oct. 1 stated caught in a torrent of flood water KANSAS CITY—Inspector Roosevelt Van Meter of the Kansas City that only messages marked RX while driving along the country Overhaul base is going to make sure he's really wide awake next time KANSAS CITY—Some rat got on (rush) or MG (must go) are re he gets a phone call in the night. side. And for the second time he Here's his sad tale of woe: a TWA plane last week. Really. routed via commercial cable. took part in a rescue act. Plane 212, being serviced for Van's wife and teen-age son, Lawrence, were returning non-revenue Flight 40 out of Kansas City, was Back in 1948 Pat had to abandon space-available from Los Angeles to their home in Kansas City. Ar found to have a live rat "some his car and wade, and while rangements had been made that = where" in the cabin. Plane 218 Gilmore, Gross To Headsplashin g along the road stopped when they finally arrived at Kan have it, they caught the next flight was hastily pressed into service as to rescue an elderly lady from a sas City Municipal airport they out to Kansas City shortly there ground crewmen pored through Chicago Club Meeting flooded* cottage. She was standing would phone Van Meter to come after, arriving late, late at night. the manual in search of chapter on a chair inside the cottage, which and pick them up. The son called up his father, heading: "Rats, Live—Procedure CHICAGO—Gordon Gilmore, TWA in turn was atop a table, and was But—en route, as it must at sleeping the sound sleep of a con for removal from plane cabin." public relations vice-president, still in water waist high. Pat swam some time to all non-revs, they tented 14-year TWAer without a Seems like K. C. maintenance and Robert E. Gross, president of to the cottage, rescued the woman were bumped, removed, off-loaded worry in the world. "Dad," says section could use a good cat. Any Lockheed Aircraft Corp., will and continued on his way. at Wichita account space. How Larry to a bleary-eyed and still body got one to spare? headline the Feb. 2 meeting of the ever, as their good luck would half-asleep Van, "sorry to bother management club. During recent floods he again you so late, but we were bumped The meeting opens at 6:15 p. m. had to adandon his car and make at Wichita. Will you come to the in the Florentine room of the his way to a neighboring house. airport and get us?" Theater Wings Has Congress hotel. Tickets are priced This time he helped rescue furni Van says, "Okay, son. Stay there, 11 at $3.50; reservations may be made ture when flood waters began to I'll come and get you." Hit in "Hay Fever through J. R. Buckman, local rise. Among pieces he helped move He dressed, got in his car, and reservations supervisor. to the second floor was a piano. drove off to the airport — in By Joan Himberger Wichita, 227 miles away. NEW YORK—A hush of expec It was a sadder but a wiser Van tancy greeted the rising curtain who discovered in Wichita that and Theater Wings had a success his wife and son had left there on its hands. Hay Fever, Noel A Message several hours ago for Kansas City Coward's show, played to enthusi from the and were probably still at the air astic audiences for three nights port wondering what route Dad last week at Carnegie Recital hall. was taking. However, they'd quit The all-TWA group may "be dis President waiting, took a taxi home and were asleep in bed when Van ar covered" yet, but even if Holly TWA has built a wonderful safety record over the past 10 years of wood didn't send any agents, a rived back home, plumb tuckered service on its domestic division during which time 18,627,816 out after a futile 500-mile trip. great deal of fun was had by passengers were flown 14,242,411,738 passenger miles without a everyone. In fact, with all the en passenger or crew fatality. couragement, Theater Wings is On the morning of Jan. 12, 1955, Captain James W. Quinn, Co MEXICO CITY RATE ON AAL already thinking about its next pilot Robert K. Childress and Hostess Pat Stermer and 10 passengers JAMES WILLIAM QUINN, 34, was NEW YORK — TWAers may use production. An announcement will took off from the Cincinnati airport with no airplane traffic reported the American Airlines 50% re be made in the near future as to and were hit soon after takeoff by an airplane not reported in the TWA captain on the Martin 202 duced rate privilege to and from the next general meeting, and no area and all persons perished. which collided last week shortly Mexico City on all routes. It is matter what your talents are, Our deep sympathies and desire to help go to the bereaved families after takeoff from Cincinnati with a not possible, however, to obtain you're invited to come join the these privileges to or from points of the TWA passengers and crew. privately operated DC-3. All 15 group. Lots of help is needed to That fine safety record stops, but will always stand as a monu in Canada, but only to the U. S. put on a show; no matter what ment of which we all may be proud. We are now starting a new occupants of both planes were station nearest the Canadian bor you can do (act, prompt, design), killed in the line's first fatal domes der. Some confusion has been en you can have a lot of fun by safety record from scratch. Let us all try hard to make it even better. tic accident in more than 10 years. countered regarding these points joining Theater Wings. So look for following recent inauguration of R. S. Damon Quinn had been with TWA since the announcement of the next President—TWA TWA-AAL reciprocal reduced rate meeting! 1941.

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