1930年5月,美国航空业的巨头——波音航空公司,雇用了世界上第一批空中小姐,揭开了航空史上一个新篇章。航空小姐的出现得归功于埃伦·丘奇小姐。她身材修长,自幼就对航空很感兴趣。在旧金山一家医院当护士时,她结识了一位叫史蒂夫·斯廷帕森的年轻人。史蒂夫是波音公司驻旧金山的董事。那时,他一直在考虑,如何摆脱民航班机的副驾驶员在飞行途中充当服务员的苦恼。聪明的埃伦小姐建议,不妨雇用女乘务员试试看。作为一个女性,她骄傲地认为,女人的天性可以使女人更能胜任这项工作。而且她还给女乘务员冠以“空中小姐”的美 May 1930, the United States aviation giant - Boeing Airlines, hired the world’s first air stewardess, opened a new chapter in aviation history. The flight attendant owes her to Miss Ellen Church. She was slender, very interested in aviation since childhood. When working as a nurse at a San Francisco hospital, she got to know a young man named Steve Sting Passon. Steve is a Boeing Director in San Francisco. At that time, he had been thinking about how to get rid of the distress of the co-pilot of the Civil Aviation flight serving as a flight attendant on the flight. Clever Ellen suggested, may wish to hire female attendants to try. As a woman, she proudly believes that a woman’s nature can make a woman more capable of the job. And she returned to the female attendant crowned as “stewardess” beauty