A fun, frank and factual recreation of the golden age of air travel and its most glamorous participants!

Libbie Escolme-Schmidt has collated hundreds of memories to portray the ultimate story of the air stewardess, during the forties and fifties to the end of the golden age in 1980. A rare history on aviation from a female perspective of the halycon days, exposing the glamour, myth, romance and working patterns of the celebrated Trolley Dolly.

• Packed with hilarious and nostagic anecdotes
• Experiences range from administering oxygen to passengers flying over the Andes to serving Champagne on Concorde
• Covers training, first flights, sexual discrimination, harassment, disasters, passengers, glamorous stopovers and other temptations.
• Thirty colour and sixty black & white illustrations present the changing times in air travel through the eyes of the stewardess and give a perfect tribute to the girls who walked the skies.