Local Helen Price was due to talk about her early working life as an air hostess based in Adelaide at our May session. Unfortunately, Helen was laid low by illness but will talk to us probably in July.
We persevered with the sessions’ theme of the working life of air hostesses in the 60’s and 70’s, watching the second episode of the ‘Come Fly With Me’ series currently available on SBS on Demand. Drawing extensively on video footage from the 60’s on, in the episode narrator Justine Clarke catches up with air hostesses, pilots, and stewards of the 60’s and 70’s, including some known as ‘old boilers’ who sought equality. Their reminiscences resonated with class members as we watched this absorbing account of changes over the time in the working lives of air hostesses, flight attendants and pilots and the planes in which they flew.
The program dealt with many aspects of being an air hostess, not least being how many social issues of the 1960s and 1970s were aired and often at least partially solved in fast moving aluminium tubes at 30,000 or 40,000ft.
David Palmer and Bev Lee
In June we get to look at the air battle for the British Falklands. There are very interesting videos available [youtube] that show the story from the British point of view.
We will see the thinking behind the longest bomber operation ever conducted, and get a view of the aircraft-carrier based defense of the British forces.
We also get to have a look at the L39 - WARNING - you could possibly be left with a deep longing, and a desperate need to get one of these aircraft for yourself.
See you on June 4th 1400/1600.
Andrew McFarlane
We persevered with the sessions’ theme of the working life of air hostesses in the 60’s and 70’s, watching the second episode of the ‘Come Fly With Me’ series currently available on SBS on Demand. Drawing extensively on video footage from the 60’s on, in the episode narrator Justine Clarke catches up with air hostesses, pilots, and stewards of the 60’s and 70’s, including some known as ‘old boilers’ who sought equality. Their reminiscences resonated with class members as we watched this absorbing account of changes over the time in the working lives of air hostesses, flight attendants and pilots and the planes in which they flew.
The program dealt with many aspects of being an air hostess, not least being how many social issues of the 1960s and 1970s were aired and often at least partially solved in fast moving aluminium tubes at 30,000 or 40,000ft.
David Palmer and Bev Lee
In June we get to look at the air battle for the British Falklands. There are very interesting videos available [youtube] that show the story from the British point of view.
We will see the thinking behind the longest bomber operation ever conducted, and get a view of the aircraft-carrier based defense of the British forces.
We also get to have a look at the L39 - WARNING - you could possibly be left with a deep longing, and a desperate need to get one of these aircraft for yourself.
See you on June 4th 1400/1600.
Andrew McFarlane
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