Viewing page 120 of 162

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

THE INSIDE STORY OF THIS MODERN MAGIC CARPET

A FEW Facts ABOUT THE CLIPPER "DIXIE"
Picture a spacious six-room house - or, if you prefer, a train of Pullmans. Imagine a pair of giant wings attached, and the power of four locomotives harnessed to this amazing structure. Thus you may imagine the proportions of the Dixie Clipper...first ship in the Pan American aerial fleet commissioned for Transairlantic passenger service.

Even a six-room house would hardly have a hall-way 80 feet in length...but that is the size of the Dixie's center aisle. The roomy cabins each seat ten people, "sleep" six. Among the appointments of the Clipper, we found deep, restful longing chairs, splendid lighting, deep-pile rugs, sparkling silver and fine linen, reading matter for every taste, writing tables, even games of many kinds. To me, the marvel of all this is that the Clippers are not impractical freaks or colossal toys. They are the fruition of American enterprise and mechanical genius... profitable, practical transports of a new day.

[[image: photo of passengers sitting in cabin area]]
[[image: photo of man standing, talking to other passengers in spacious lounge]]

[[image: cut-away drawing of interior room plan of Dixie Clipper]]

THE "ENGINEER'S-EYE" VIEW...
By Captain Sullivan's courtesy, I was privileged to see the Bridge, the Navigation and Radio Room and other operating sections, as well as the passenger deck. There, above the rooms of our flying hotel, were instruments and equipment such as Jules Verne never imagined.

The Clipper's Controls are its hear and pulse. With a glance at their instrument boards, the crew determines the ship's air speed, motor speeds, altitude, degree of drift, air temperature, fuel regulation...literally hundreds of reading that affect the flying operation. Not one radio station, but three of specialized types, are in use. Each is a complete transmitter and receive.

[[images: 4 photos showing crew members at work flying the airplane]]