Stepwilk
Maureen O'Hara certainly did perform as a Stewardess for Antilles, and certainly understood the role very well.
Maureen O'Hara would often accompany her husband Charles Blair on flights. Indeed she was with him when their Sandringham visited the UK for some pleasure flights for a few days in the early 1970's.
I had the great pleasure of being on one of those flights, a 1 hour flight around the Isle of Wight alighting from Calshot. And Maureen was certainly not 'acting' the part or only along for the ride. She clearly took her role as senior cabin crew very seriously and I remember her simply being a lovely lady with absolutely no celebrity 'attitude'.
That particular aircraft, VH-BRC is now preserved at SolentSky Museum in Southampton, UK and I have the second great pleasure of taking care of her and showing our visitors around her, including up onto the flight deck. We have a small information plaque remembering the aircraft's time with Maureen O'Hara on board.
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Last edited by Corsairoz; 17th Oct 2011 at 09:38.