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Women in Transportation History: Ellen Church, First Female Flight Attendant – Transportation History
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The very first "sky girl"- Ellen Church, the first stewardesses was a pilot and U.S. Army Air Force flight nurse
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The very first "sky girl"- Ellen Church, the first stewardesses was a pilot and U.S. Army Air Force flight nurse
NATCA - On May 15, 1930, Ellen Church became the world's first airline flight attendant (then called a “stewardess”), working a Boeing Air Transport (BAT) flight from Oakland, Calif., to Chicago. The
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