Fujiyama Trays & Oshibori Towels Recalling a time when passenger flight was an adventure and the Boeing Stratocruiser ruled the skies
As Miss Billingsley, Anne spent four years as a stewardess for Northwest Airlines in the 1950s working on Douglas DC-4s, DC-6s, DC-7s, Boeing B-377 Stratocruisers and Lockheed L-188 Electras. She soloed in a Beech 150 in 1976 and snagged rides over the years on a variety of aircraft, including a Piper J-3; BT-13 and AT-6 military trainers; the B-25 of WWII fame, the supersonic British Airways Concorde and a hot air balloon. She attributes her love of airplanes and flight to her first ride, not long before her birth, when her pregnant mother went up in a JN-4D Jenny with a barnstormer in rural Minnesota. A freelance writer based in Minneapolis, Anne blogs at her Lady Skywriter website and volunteers at the NWA History Centre; a non-profit museum dedicated to preserving the history of Northwest Airlines, where she serves on the Board of Directors and edits their quarterly newsletter.