The Glamour of Flight, Part 1
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"QUANTUM SHOT" #119Vintage Commercial Aviation Promotions:
Flight Attendants
There was something in the air in the early years of commercial aviation. Perhaps more excitement, perhaps more glamorous stewardesses... in any case, it's worth savoring once again.
Air Jamaica stewardesses demonstrate the Lockheed in 1969:
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More after the jump...
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Vespas, girls and planes go well together:
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Braniff airlines trippy flight attendant attire, designed by Emilio Pucci:
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1968 was the year of the space helmet to protect the flight attendant's hairdo.
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Pretty ladies adorned airplanes since WWII.
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PanAm stewardess from 2001: Space Oddyssey
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MODERN TIMES:
For the modern version of "stewardess's flight dance"
see this series of ... anime
alternative:
Have a good flight!
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Sources: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
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The flight attendant pics are great, so is that cyberpunk stuff!
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You made my month.
therealdonquixote hearts actual attractive stewardesses, not "airline attendants".
The first picture is from a Lavazza ad from 2006.
Thats where i saw it also - The first picture is from a Lavazza ad from 2006.
wow... those dames have some great gams.
loving the go-go boots, but what on earth is up with the girl dressed like a bullfighter??
Too damn funny. Those are great pics.
This remind me of the book written by, and about a Stewardess in the 60's ... "Coffee, Tea or Me."
It was, I guess, considered racy at the time but it reads like porn if it were sanitized by Disney.
*chuckle* I'm old enough to remember the Braniff "bubbles"... ahh, the days when women were girls! Women have gained far, far more and we're all better for it - but there was also a unique spirit of fun in those days that we've lost . . . society gains, society looses . . .
I guess the MEN enjoyed those days. It was like being "Miss America" to be an airplane stewardess then. I happened to know a girl who was one.
Just go to Latin America. In the Bogota airport I saw some wonderful costumed stewardesses.
Man, i remember those PSA uniforms with the weird little cleavage key-hole. Those made quite an impression on my pre-teen mind when we flew PSA from San Jose to Los Angels in the '60s.
um, have you flown recently on an Asian airline.
The staff look exactly like this, and they treat you like royalty.
What happened to flight in America?
Unions.
The jet engines were better-engineered then, and could suck in up to three stewardesses without wiping blades.
paul a'barge said...
What happened to flight in America?
Unions.
Curse those unions for making it so that women over 35, those not blessed with model looks, and even some men can work as flight attendants!
What happened to the good old days when stewardesses had to wear short skirts and smile while they were groped and otherwise sexually harassed by businessmen the age of their fathers who reeked of cigarette smoke?
What! no fat bald gay men or 200+ lb women? Those girls were hot forty years ago...
Too bad the same ones are still working today!
I love the Asian airlines. The woman aren't ashamed to be women.
The change in flight in American has nothing to do with unions and everything to do with the 1976 deregulation of the industry. And it's obvious from the average ticket prices since then, quality problems aside, that deregulation was (as it nearly always is) the right thing to do.
"Groovy" doesn't even begin to cover it.
there’s no uniform sexier than the one-piece mini-dress and off-kilter cap, especially when set off by go-go boots.
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I, for one, would fly a lot more if stewardesses still wore go-go boots
I *LOVE* these stewardesses!! Awesome! :)
Ah the good old days. When even college educated women were willing to be treated like servants and sex objects.
I lived in southeast asia in the '60s. For in-flight entertainment the flight attendants on Thai Airways used to give a style show. Sometimes they wore bikinis.
Yet another reason why I was obviously born in the wrong decade.
friendly skies
Oh, what memories! I was a flight attendant for Western Airlines back in the day. Our uniforms weren't designed by Pucci, oh, but the job was wonderful! It's not like that anymore.
Janet T
You should take a look around Schiphol airport in Amsterdam. The rest of the world still realizes that, like models, stewardesses have a definite expiration date and don't let them hang around until their fifties like the bitchy old broads you see on Northwest.
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Some of those chicks are serious hunnies, why are stewardesses wearing frocks and semi-gowns these days? Men are still men - BRING BACK THE STEWARDESS MINI'S! =D
Better looking than many of today's so called supermodels
A few curves is better than seeing ribs, for sure
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Whats with the matador uniform in the fifth picture, Air Spain?
now I understand why they are called the good old days...
"What happened to the good old days when stewardesses had to wear short skirts and smile "
Yeah it's so much better nowadays now that we have fat ugly chicks with attitude as stewardesses. Thank god we don't have to deal with those thin cuties who smile anymore!
Simply AWEFUL garbage photography... women fly planes, not dress up like Austin Powers fembots and serve duty free drinks on them. If you're not flying combat, you're not flying.
Wow, by looking at these pictures, it appears that their goal was to sell you the flight attendant as the primary goal, and the flight itself as 2nd priority.
It makes me wonder, as PC as we think we are today, how 40 years from now they will look at us.
Believe it or not there was a glamour time in commercial aviation. Alas, today, it is all gone, reduced to the bottom line of corporate balance sheets, AND, the desire of the traveling public to get there cheap (but, they still want all the amenities of the old days).
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