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With Braniff, she flew to California, London, Tokyo, the Philippines and Vietnam, for starters.

“I couldn’t believe they were paying me for this. I had to pinch myself. Here I still had hay in my hair, and now I’m flying around the world. It was just incredible at that age.

“Onboard, we knew the passengers by name and knew what they drank. We didn’t have those carts, but used trays. Braniff prided itself on getting every passenger a drink before takeoff. Because of regulations, we had to pick up the drinks before takeoff, too, so sometimes you’d have men drinking a big martini or even two before takeoff. We had to be fast and organized.”

She recalls elaborate meals — chateaubriand carved in front of the passenger, eggs benedict, crepes suzette, even caviar en route to London.

“On a plane just recently, I see people pulling out a credit card for a small, bad snack, and I think, ‘It’s not like the old days!’” Indeed, things have changed and security has intensified. Pilot Maynard recalls a time when he stood at the door and greeted passengers as they boarded the plane.

“Now they lock us up tight inside the cockpit. Where once kids used to be able to visit the cockpits, now there is virtually no interaction between pilots and passengers.”

Maynard is the first to admit: He and the other pilots loved the pretty hostesses. As a young co-pilot, when he first saw Jeanne Toews walking up the tarmac in her sexy Pucci uniform, he said to his pilot, “I’m going to marry her.” In May 1957, he did.

With the women’s liberation movement came shifting standards for flight attendants. Maynard stops short of disapproving of the changes.

“Now you might get a hairy-legged guy rather than a pretty young lady coming to the cockpit. I’ll just leave it at that,” he says with a grin.

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