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Wyoming's Friendly Skies: Training America's First Stewardesses (Landmarks) Kindle Edition
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- ASIN : B08DM5KW1H
- Publisher : The History Press (August 10, 2020)
- Publication date : August 10, 2020
- Language : English
- File size : 10576 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 147 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,599,200 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #518 in Commercial Aviation (Kindle Store)
- #898 in Aviation History (Kindle Store)
- #1,415 in Commercial Aviation (Books)
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About the author
Starley Talbott was raised on a Wyoming ranch. She has traveled the world and lived in four countries. Starley has been a freelance writer for more than 30 years and began her writing career as a photo-journalist with the Saratoga Sun weekly newspaper in Saratoga, Wyoming. At the age of 60, Starley joined the Peace Corps and served briefly in South Africa. Starley's world travels are detailed in her book, "Lasso the World." Starley and her husband enjoy visiting wineries and she wrote about vineyards and wineries in her books--"Along the Grapevine Trail," and "Four Corners Vineyards and Wineries." She has completed three books in the Arcadia Publishing series of "Images of America" books: "Platte County;" "Fort Laramie;" and "Cheyenne Frontier Days (available June 2013)."
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- Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2022This is an interesting history of the establishment and development of the stewardess profession, well told and well illustrated. As a young man working at a riding stable located just below the airport in Cheyenne, many a pleasant weekend day was spent leading these amazing young ladies on local trail rides.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2020Anyone interested in commercial aviation history should read this book. Beginning with a description of passenger planes in the late 1920’s, it is an eye-opener (The Boeing 80-A had a capacity for twelve passengers…a co-pilot’s job included looking after passengers and passing out box lunches and thermos-coffee). Whew! By the time my grade school buddy took me to Chicago’s Midway Airport to meet a crew and board a 1950’s plane, it was already a different world.
Wyoming’s Friendly Skies tells us the story about how one woman changed commercial aviation. Ellen Church, a San Francisco nurse who wanted to be an airline pilot, befriended Steve Simpson of the future United Airlines. She suggested hiring nurses to serve passengers. In primitive early airplanes, a bit of soothing didn’t hurt. They often jumped up and down like a bucking bronco!
One early stewardess reported that “Every now and then a strip of canvas would work loose during flight and we had to make an emergency landing until we got the canvas glued back on.” Passengers did not always react to flight bravely. Another stewardess recounted how a 75-year-old woman became confused and violent. “She hit a priest and broke his glasses.” When the stewardess offered a glass of water, “She threw it at me.”
Authors Talbott and Kassel describe the planes, the airports, the stewardess training, requirements and evolution of the trade in this wonderful book. Aside from the cooperation of United Airlines (who opened their archives), the authors interviewed pioneer stewardesses which adds a personal side to the story.
The book includes dozens of photos to help illustrate the era: the clothes, the machines, even some documents. It is a pleasure to behold such a meticulously formatted literary work, complete with notes and a bibliography. I also liked the new matt finish which feels like glossy but has that university-like matt look.
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