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The Sky is the Limit! Stunning Vintage Flight Attendants That Make Airlines Look Like Heaven

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Flight attendants are just like angels. They are beautiful, talented, and always ready to help. So it's no big surprise photographers have always tried to capture as many pictures with them as possible. And, of course, they look marvellous in almost every photo - because they look marvellous every single second while on duty - and even after their flight is over!

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Flight attendant from Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport V. Kupriyanova.
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Czech Tennis player Cyril Suk (L), who is in Dubai to take part in an ATP tennis tournament, and an Emirati air hostess, feed a "cama"- the world's first hybrid between a camel and a llama.
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American Airlines stewardess Patty Pulsen models a new uniform, a blue knit washable stretch dress with matching belt and hairbow that will replace the traditional three-piece uniform, in 1967. The dress also comes in red and white and hemlines can be three inches above the knee.
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Flight attendants from Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) introduce its new "Pokemon (Pocket Monsters) Jet", which began domestic operation on 21 June 1999 at Tokyo International Airport. The Boeing 747-400 bears the design of the first prize winner of the Pokemon design contest.
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Brightly coloured female flight attendant uniforms and short miniskirts of Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA).
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Emmanuella, a Gulf Air hostess from Greece, poses with a gun at the US stand for Tactical and Survival Specialties Equipment at the International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) 99 in Abu Dhabi 17 March 1999.
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The new "mini-pants" uniform for TWA stewardesses, which show more thigh in the sky than ever before, is seen in New York on 30 June 1971.
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Flight Attendants at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport.
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United Arab Emirates stewardess takes a picture for a child's birthday during a flight from Dubai, 28 October. The airline unveiled a new line of uniforms designed by French fashion designer Paco Rabanne for its 4,000 staff members.
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Photos of the various uniforms worn by air hostess from the National Airways Corporation (NAC) between 1959 and 1975.
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A group of flight attendants from the Hungarian company MALEV.
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Winner of the socialist countries flight attendant contest Irina Bazhenova (USSR).
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