Mile High Piece of Ass

One day a few months ago, I was really bored. Really, really bored. So I wikipediad "stewardesses."

For further reading, here is a link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewardesses

But I will tell you all the cool stuff here.

First of all, fun fact:

Stewardesses is one of the longest words (at 12 letters) that are typed with only the left hand on a QWERTY keyboard. It is tied with other, 12-letter, left-hand-only words such asdesegregated, desegregates, reverberated, and reverberates.

Think that is cool? Wait until you read this.

So in brief, a history of flight attendants. They first started as men on Zepplins. This was back in the 1920's. Then, in the next decade, the first woman toke the role. Why a woman? Because she was a nurse and it seemed to make sense to have a nurse on board. Then, it became the norm to have nurses on the flight. Back then, all nurses were female. It actually became a requirement that a flight attendant had to be a registered nurse. That all changed come 1942. It was no longer required to have be a nurse. Why? If you guessed World War II, you would be right. All of the nurses joined the war effort. Thus, the bimbo stewardess was born. It became a symbol of beauty to be a stewardess. This was before the women's lib movement and all, so companies could hire whoever they wanted for whatever reason. So they were all models. In fact, there was one interesting advertising campaign for one airline:

In the 1960s and 1970s, many airlines began advertising the attractiveness and friendliness of their stewardesses. National Airlines began a "Fly Me" campaign using attractive stewardesses with taglines such as "I'm Lorraine. Fly me to Orlando." (A low budget 1973 film about three flight attendants, Fly Me, starting Lenore Kasdorf, was based on the ad campaign.) Braniff Airways, presented a campaign known as the "Air Strip," with similarly attractive young stewardesses changing uniforms midflight. [1] A policy of at least one airline required that only unmarried women could be flight attendants. [2]

How classic is that?

Now was that interesting or not? No? Well then it is a good thing I saved the best for last.

Vesna Vulovic, a former flight attendant from Yugoslavia, survived a fall from 10,160 m (33,330 ft) when JAT Yugoslav Flight 364 blew up over Czechoslovakia on January 26, 1972, after a bomb exploded on board.

It is INSANE. The plane crashed on a mountainside. She not only survived, but after 3 months, fully recovered. AND SHE STILL WANTED TO BE A STEWARDESS. The airline wouldn't let her though, so they gave her a desk job. What's more, she made it into the book of world records for longest fall without a parachute. Paul McCartney gave her the award at a ceremony. HOW CRAZY IS THAT?

Here's to blogging.