Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-10
New Firm Maps
Air Taxi Hops
For Maryland
Vacation Trips and
Cheap Freight Rates
May Start in July
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, May 10.-Maryland
vacationistS may be travelling by
plane to shore or mountains by end
Of this summer-if plans outlined
today by Pan-Maryland Anyways,
Inc, newly formed Baltimore cor
poration, materialize.
G. B. Fenwick, jr., president, said
the company would sign an order
today for the first group of planes
to be used in air freight and taxi"
operations covering most of Mary
land, starting in late July or August.
With Baltimore as its hub, Pan
Maryland will operate on routes fam
ming out to cover most of State
One route, Mr. Fenwick said, would
make trips from Baltimore to Ocean
City in about an hour, with 5-minute
intermediate stops at Annapolis,
Easton, Cambridge and Salisbury.
The company official said a sec
ond route between Baltimore and
Cumberland also would serve West
minister, Frederick and Hagerstown,
with third route running from Col
lege Park to Bel Air. via Baltimore
and Havre de Grace.
New Type Planes to Be Used.
Planes to be used, small trans
port type not marketed heretofore,
have high-lift wing which enables
them to operate out of the smallest
airport with a full load, he con-
tinued, adding that the company
eventually would operate 40 of them,
some for passengers only and others,
with the seats removed, for cargo.
Passenger fares will run about
half way between bus and rail
fares" Mr.. Fenwick said. For ex-
ample, he explained, fares from
Baltimore to Cumberland probably
would be about 81 and from Balti-
more to Easton, s1.60.
by offering such attractive fares
and by running frequent schedules,
we believe we can build up a large
volume of interstate air travel" Mr..
Fenwick declared.
He said that as soon as the COM
pany could obtain delivery of a sufi-
Gent number of planes, flights on
each of three routes would leave
Baltimore every Is to so minutes.
College Committing Possible.
College students in Westminster
have already approached the firm
concerning possibilities of commut-
ing, Mr.. Fenwick reported.
Commenting on freight prospects,
the Maryland president said
the line already had contracted
with large Baltimore department
store for making same-day deliveries
to customers on the Eastern Shore
and had been approached about de-
livering seafood items from the
Eastern Shore to Baltimore.
He said planes would carry a pay
load of 300 pounds, and freight rate
had been set tentatively at 10000 per
pound per mile.
Flexibility of operations and type Of
plane to be used were given as basis
for low rates, Mr.. FenWick said.
Planes are four-place machines and
inexpensive in comparison with the
2l-passenger planes used by most
airlines, he asserted.
Actually" he commented, II
don't think people care so much
what size plane they travel in, just
so the plane gets them to where
they want to go in quick enough
time and at little enough expense"
Ex-Seryicemen for Pilots.
There are suitable landing fields
at all points on proposed routes ex-
cept Ocean City, Mr.. Fenwick said,
and preliminary work has been
started on field there. The COM
pany will use the Municipal Airport
as its Baltimore base, where repair
and servicing facilities will be main
tanned
For most part, personnel will be
composed of pilots who have been
discharged from service.
Other officials of the firm are James
Sammon, vice president; Colston
Young, vice president in charge of
traffic, and George Constable, Sec
rotary.
The order for the first group of
planes is to be signed at a conference
today between officials of the airline
and Richard King, assistant to the
president of Taylorcraft Aviation
Corp, Alliance, Ohio.