Paa To Use Strato
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Cruisers Soon
TIHE Australian Government has given Pan American Airways permission to operate Stratocruisers on the Syd ney-San Francisco run from next July.
They will operate on slightly reduced loadings until Pacific airports are en larged to take them.
In preparation for the coming of this sky giant, the airstrip at Tontouta, New Caledonia (which services Noumea) is now being lengthened by 1,200 feet. Don Conklin, PAA specialist who’s been look ing after the work at Tontouta expects to wind up his phase of the work shortly and go to San Francisco for reassign ment. Murray, of PAA’s Sydney office, is now temporarily in charge of the PAA office at Noumea.
The Stratocruiser, which PAA has used successfully for sometime on its Hawaii- USA service, is built by Boeing in Seattle and will materially increase the pas senger and cargo loads that can be car ried on the run to Australia. PAA. at present, is using Douglas DC-4’s on this flight. —Special Correspondent.