Photo of World's First Stewardess

This is the world's first stewardess photos ..... Ellen Church (1904 - 1965), First Flight attendants at DuniaSejak Wright Brothers made history "12 seconds that changed the world" on December 17, 1903 by flying the first powered aircraft, aviation began to squirm.
Initially, until the end of World War I, planes tempurlah emerging. After that, the decade of the 1920s, began to develop civil aircraft, of which was pioneered by William Boeing founded the Boeing aircraft industry in Seattle, the United States in 1916, and Anthony Fokker, Dutch-born Madiun, Indonesia, who founded the aircraft industry flying Fokker in the Netherlands in 1919.However, throughout the 1920s that commercial aviation developed slowly while slowly gaining in popularity as a means of transportation. One of the reasons why air transport is less popular, is the fact that people feel the air transport is still a dangerous mode of transportation.


To be able to divert trains into passenger aircraft, of course, airlines should be able to assure that air transportation is a safe mode of transportation. One of the meritorious change the image of air transport is Ellen Church.
Born in Cresco, Iowa, United States on September 22, 1904, Ellen Church was a nurse (registered nurse) who because of high interest to the aviation world, also became an aviator (pilot).
Actually, when the Church applied for work at Boeing Air Transport (BAT)-which later became United Airlines, he was initially proposed as a pilot. However, instead of contracting Church as a pilot, Steve Stimpson, a BAT official, just to see something more promising than the idea of ​​another Ellen Church, the nurse puts a stewardess (Stewardess / flight attendant) in an aircraft, which served to soothe passengers who fear flying.
Foreseeing the great publicity that would occur by placing the nurse as a stewardess, Stimpson sell the idea to his superiors.
In 1930, Boeing Air Transport to start something at that time considered a bold experiment with contracting-eight nurses known as The Original Eight-flight stewardess with probation for three months. Ellen Church became the head flight attendant.
On May 15, 1930, Ellen Church became the world's first stewardess is flying the route Oakland to Chicago. Presence of flight attendants is an indisputable success for BAT. Within three years, various airlines follow BAT by placing the stewardess on the plane.
Requirements to be a flight attendant in the 1930's are very tight. Apart from having a nurse, flight attendant must also be women who are single, age younger than 25 years, weighs less than 115 pounds (about 52 kg) and height less than 5 feet 4 inches (about 162, 56 cm). Stewardess in those days far from the glamor. In addition to the service of passengers, flight attendants often have to lift the suitcases of passengers on board, tighten the seat bolts are loose, refueling aircraft, and even help push the plane into the hangar! For the service, flight attendants are paid 125 U.S. dollars per month.
Although Ellen Church merit paves the way for women to wrestle in the world of aviation, he became a flight attendant for eighteen months. After a car accident that ended his career as a flight attendant, Church holds a bachelor degree from the University of Minnesota and continued his career as a nurse.
In 1942, during World War II, Ellen Church back into space as a flight nurse in the Army Nurse Corps and was awarded the Air Medal for kepatriotannya during the war.
After World War II age, the Church moved to Terre Haute, Indiana, became director at Union Hospital and Leonard Briggs is married to Marshall, Managing Director of Terre Haute First National Bank in 1964.
Ellen Church, died on August 22, 1965 due to accidental fall from a horse. In honor of his services, airport in his hometown of Cresco, Iowa, is named Ellen Church Field.