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Compiling the reminiscences of fellow cabin crew from the 1940s to the 1980s, the author provides a fascinating, frank and sometimes funny portrait of life in the skies during the halcyon days of air travel. Filled with 90 colour and black-and-white photographs this will appeal not just to former cabin crew, but seasoned air passengers too. Fasten your seat belts for a nostalgic and illuminating flight. --This England, Autumn 2009
The Girls don t get much of a look-in in aviation literature, so this book recalling the golden age of the air stewardess is welcome.....This delightful book will please anyone interested in airline history, with its many stories of a changing world seen through the eyes of the 'stew' ***** Absolutely Outstanding, MIKE HOOKS --Aeroplane, September 2009 --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
The Girls don t get much of a look-in in aviation literature, so this book recalling the golden age of the air stewardess is welcome.....This delightful book will please anyone interested in airline history, with its many stories of a changing world seen through the eyes of the 'stew' ***** Absolutely Outstanding, MIKE HOOKS --Aeroplane, September 2009 --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Glamour in the Skies is the first book to celebrate the stewardesses of British Airways and their predecessors from 1936 to 1980, widely agreed to be the golden age of air travel - a time which personified optimism, excitement and a feeling of boundless opportunity for both passengers and airline crew. The air hostess, as she was known initially, began her British career in a one-engine propeller plane crossing the English Chan-nel and ended up in Boeing 747 jets and the supersonic Concorde. Ex-hostess Libbie Escolme-Schmidt combines history with hundreds of surveys and interviews from re-tired and current cabin crew, enabling the reader to follow the development of the role of the stewardess through the early years of discrimination to her present-day career equality. During this period flying evolved from a potentially dangerous adventure to a remarkably safe and comfortable means of international travel and through it all the air hostesses were there. Their appearance changed over the years, from the 1940s military look to the mini-skirts of the 1960s, and the caring mother figure to the sexy corporate prod-uct, as the role was glamorised to almost iconic status, becoming a dream career for millions of young women worldwide. Glamour in the Skies is packed with many anecdotes, ranging from administering oxygen to passengers flying over the Andes, to serving French champagne on Concorde. Covering training, sexual discrimination, disasters, passengers, glamorous stopovers and other temptations, this illustrated book presents the changing times in air travel through the eyes of the stewardess and offers the perfect tribute to the girls who walked the skies. This fabulous, richly illustrated history of air travel from the 1940s to the 1980s revels in the glamour, the romance - and the...realities of life as a trolley dolly in the Jet Age. Sunday Express magazine This delightful book will please anyone interested in airline history...Well done girls! ***** (Absolutely outstanding) Aeroplane As [Libbie Escolme-Schmidt's] fascinating new book reminds us, the excitement and romance of air travel was personified by the air stewardess...Irish Independent (Eire) . ..a fascinating, frank and sometimes funny portrait of life in the skies during the halcyon days of air travel...Fasten your seatbelts for a nostalgic and illuminating flight. This England
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Format:Hardcover
Having been a Stewardess with BOAC from 1954 to 1958 I found this an enthralling book, hugely interesting and entertaining as well as being a valuable historical record of an amazing time. The Author captures perfectly the FUN it all was - every trip was an adventure and we all felt this. It is beautifully written and a real page-turner irrespective of whether you have been involved in airlines. I could not put it down.
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This was, for me, a wonderful trip down memory lane. As a stewardess with BOAC in the 60s I could totally relate to the anecdotes and descriptions of flying as it was in those days. Getting into BOAC was extremely difficult as they required attractive personable girls with intelligence and a knowledge of nursing, catering or languages. One had to look good but also have the skills to deal with difficult people, foreign customs and religions. We were well rehearsed in emergency procedures and certainly had to be diplomatic in many situations. The job was high prestige at the time and I considered myself lucky to be with an international airline. This book captures perfectly this golden age of flying and I thoroughly enjoyed it. There one or two mistakes regarding uniform but by and large it is accurate and hugely enjoyable to anyone interested in flying. This was an age when the words trolley dollies had not been thought of and would have been totally inappropriate!
Format:Hardcover
Excellent product bought as a present and can tell you it has brought back lots of happy memories, absolutely thrilled with content and pictures. This is told as it was without any embellishment. If there has to be one criticism that is the font could have been a little larger or at least in a different bolder typeface to make the words much clearer.
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This is a well researched book. I was working for BOAC/BA from 1960 to 1987; I remember Libby Escolme as she then was,I admire her tenacity in producing this book. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Mr. C. Richards
Glamour in the Skies: The Golden Age of the Air Stewardess
As mentioned in my review of Fire Over Heathrow: The Tragedy of Flight 712, I ordered both books together, they arrived within 3 days and in excellent condition. Read more
Published 9 months ago by M. E. Mccann
True glamour in the skies.
Excellent book.
Having travelled world wide on business in the days 'before the crowd found the door to the secret garden and trampled all the flowers', (1966 - 1990) I... Read more
Having travelled world wide on business in the days 'before the crowd found the door to the secret garden and trampled all the flowers', (1966 - 1990) I... Read more
Published on 23 Sep 2009 by Michael J. Greenspan
Glamour In The Skies
I found this book too full of facts, too wordy. It became pedestrian and tedious. What should have been a book with a great subject is, instead, a boring book. Read more
Published on 3 Sep 2009 by Jill A
Great book, love it, buy it before it goes
A lovely book, tells us "how it was", when air travel was enjoyable.
How social manners meant something and people could be nice to others.
Look where we are now ! Read more
How social manners meant something and people could be nice to others.
Look where we are now ! Read more
Published on 17 July 2009 by Rob
Five Star Girls
After eharing the author on BBC Radio 4, I was tempted to read the book as I myself am a trainee flight attendant. Read more
Published on 12 July 2009 by T. Dilliway
Not all glamour
The book is very selective in its content. I flew with BOAC/BA over a number of the years recorded and I have different memories of some of them. Read more
Published on 11 July 2009 by John Collier
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