Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-12-30 | Page 44 | Boeing Airline Expects Heavy 1929 Business

BOEING AI Ut E EXPECTS V S 1 29 f C Company Plans to Plc Place S 25 Fast PI Planes s i in J Operation 41 Considerable Increase In tho the bt busi- busi over o th tho Boeing Air All Transport lI cs wM wH i 1 operate between Salt S Lake ke zi c. a. a u tn n Francisco and Salt L ke ui cago Is expected d dS during dur dut- S ing- ing 19 19 o of tho company announce nn In order to keep abreast with the ther r ld advance made in aviation the company Is ig planning on placing In Inset inI I set vice twenty five fast aim aimS airmail S 1 planes Janes During the earl early part o ot year a fleet t of huge passenger aI sue liners will vIli begin operating 1 be bet between be- be t tween en Chicago and San Francisco Francis ese planes will be of the tho itt latest cAbIn cibin type trpe and will vm tarry carry rr from VelV t to fifteen passengers rho Boeing Air All Transport was i organized d early in 1927 by W. W E. E Ir Hoeing Hoeing- chairman of or the board of ot directors of the Boeing Airplane company Seattle Wash Vash Soon nfl alter after the acceptance of t Mr 11 Boeings Boeing's t bid fc the San Francisco-Chicago Francisco se section sec sec- tion of the old transcontinental al airmail air air- mall mail route by the posto- posto f Ie e department the Boel Boeing A Air Air- 1 J ne company factory at Seattle began work on twenty-four twenty sped special a It man mall express and passenger j nes for use on n this route STARTED JULY 1 1927 promptly at 7 o'clock on ti the morning bf of July 1 according to ti the contract the tho first eastbound plane rote role roe with the mail from C Crissy fiel field F cpm Reno another pilot and ai another an an- other plane plan relayed the mall mail ovi over a division to Salt Lake Cital Cit City al an 1 so on op through Cheyenne ar andO and O Omaha aha to Chicago covering all fF five hours A Aw d in twenty-one twenty w plane left Chicago ti the same evening at 7 50 1 p. p m. m Five pots and five planes covered Ui the re divisions to San Francisco b by 4 ZO 4 iO tho the following evening Passenger service was formally inaugurated August 1 after one or operation The line hc has v n n V operated one and a a. half years yean ears of miles had bee been n flown and d pounds pf of rna mall mail h l been led carrIed up to toD to D December 1 1928 Passengers carried numbered number num ber d 2686 he he route Is Is flown by twenty twenty- eight ei ht pilots most of f whom serve served int the World war and canto came to th the airmail service soon aft after r. r Many Man Manyo o them have hours or more Ii inthe In Inthe the air H. H T. T Lewis second ra rank rank- In airmail pilot in the service ha has n nearly sarly arly miles hi in darkness dark dark- ness About one halt of th the Sa San 1 Francisco Chicago line is flown in tt night nIght all all of th that t portion be between between be- be tween Cheyenne and Chicago both boti rest and ancl westbound USE OSE BOEING PLANES Boeing Boeing- built planes pl nes are stan standard c equipment uli ment Ol on Boeing lines The rhe first fl 1 et t of twenty-four twenty ships is Is' Is design deIgn de design de- de sign Ign 40 A a biplane with a a. cargo capacity of f 1600 pounds including lin linsto t t Jo sto o. o pass passengers hi n ri a tt cos closed c cabin equipment was wa th the Pratt f bitney W Wasp SP of T eso are being replaced by oH IJ Hor Hornets rn r- r n nets ts s with er Design 40 C practically the same as at A 40 except that the passenger cabin ibin bin seats four foul is used on Pa Pa Pa- 5 ciuc Air All Transport 5 Ill A. A fleet of at trl-m trl tri motored twelve- twelve transport plants s is being constructed for operation on the transcontinental route probably beginning gInning about the tho first of the These ships carry cany pounds including pounds of f mail In Individual l- l reading Declining ie l chairs airs luncheon buff buffet t from which rest restom a at steward serves selves meals and hot and cold r om with lavatory waiter a tel ter toilet tollet are among conveniences convent convent- noes for JEor passengers Power on planes is supplied by three Wasps totaling 1275 MAY AY SEPARATE SEPARATE- SERVICE Eventually separation of mail service is service and passenger planned fanned for the transcontinental l' l Ute Passengers will be be carried tri m tri motored planes and mail mall be- be flown in t f fast st t mail mail- mail couriers couriers With Pith th miles mUes per hour top speed of mail all-mail planes is nov now leet Seattle under eder construction at the The m mail U planes are o of the lane type and are Ve po powered ed with I S Jn tin November a a financial z lion was effected whereby a new h holding IdIng company was created the created the Boeing Airplane cor- cor ration which acquired by stock control of the Boeing ownership Air All Boeing plane Airplane company and t I Pacific Air Trans Trans- National L L' L City bank ban of p port rt t. t The New ew York and the Pacific National b bank tk hk of ot Seattle have acquired d a subs substantial sub sub- s interest ne ne new The increased capital will willi b i used to meet the he demands of of this rapidly growing business Diree- Diree Directors r and Boeing Airplane the t tors rs isa of Transport corporation cor are J. J C C. C Manufacturing Manufacturing president t. t Black tack ack turing ring company Seattle W. W E. E D eln president Boeing Airplane Boeing 5 C. C E. E jd d Transport c corporation Bink rink treasurer treasure B Boeing Airplane nc chair chair- company William Calvert Pacific National of oC board in n president prest- prest blink bank ink Seattle T. T A A. Davies dent nt Ladysmith Coal c company Seattle Seattle Se Se- dt first vice president pres attle Lie C. C L. L Egtvedt company ident Boeing Airplane Hubbard vice l president resident eIng Air All Transport Co Inc nc P. P Boeing Boeing Airne Airplane Air Air- G a Johnson pr president id nt Air Trans- Trans plane ne company compan Boeing Trans- Trans Pacific Air rt Inc and p r K Pv n. Kingsbury president C. C Standard andard Oil Co of California J Knickerbocker vico vice president lent Wheel company compan Chicago Q Boeing Nelson kelson sales manager J Krik tIk elson company Gurney E. E New- New Newlin Ashburn Los Angeles J Ij fB B. B president Pratt Hart- Hart Whitney Aircraft company r d d Joseph P P. Ripley vice fl nt t National City lly company New NewY NewYork Y York rk Elmer E E. Todd Donworth T Id dd If Seattle O. O W. W secretary Boeing Airplane c and Boeing Air All Trans- Trans t t. t Inc and Chance ance Vought pres- pres corporatiOn co Vought I nt Chance York York 1 1