Confessions of a 1980s flight attendant
CNN
Ann Hood, a best-selling author, has recounted her adventures working as cabin crew on TWA flights in the 1980s in a new book detailing the highs and lows of life during the early jet age.
(CNN) — "I came of age when the jet age came of age," says Ann Hood, an American novelist and New York Times best-selling author, whose latest book "Fly Girl" is a memoir of her adventurous years as a TWA flight attendant, right at the end of the Golden Age of air travel.
As a child, growing up in Virginia, she witnessed the first flight of the Boeing 707 -- which ushered in the era of passenger jet travel -- and watched Dulles airport being built.
At the age of 11, after she moved back to her native Rhode Island with her family, she read a 1964 book titled "How to become an airline stewardess," and her mind was made up.
