The Silver Ring Mystery
(1960)(Book 13 in the Vicki Barr, Flight Stewardess series)
A novel by Helen Wells
"THAT'S WHY," VICKI EXPLAINED TO HER FAMILY, "the Electra is so challenging. Mary Carter warned us stewardesses, while she was retraining us for the Electra, that this beauty flies so fast there's hardly time to get all our jobs done."
"You mean it's a hard assignment, don't you?" said Ginny. She was fourteen, and Vicki's younger sister.
Their mother, Betty Barr, said, "I'm sure if I had your job on a jet-prop - Or is it a jet? Which is it, Lewis?"
Professor Barr looked amused. "You know perfectly well. The all-jet without propellers," he said, "the Boeing 707, is used more for long hauls - nonstop coast to coast, or across oceans. The Electra 188, with jet engines and propellers, is used mainly for intercity travel. I trust I have the facts correct, Victoria."
He smiled at Vicki who looked so much like him - fair hair, light-blue eyes, the thoughtful Barr gaze - that it was a family joke.
"Well, anyhow," said Vicki's mother, "if I had to get sixty-eight passengers safely on, off, and fed, in two hours - Whew!"
"Fortunately I'm not going to have to do everything all by myself," Vicki answered. "Jean Cox and I will work the New York-Chicago-San Francisco run together on the Electra."
They were having a leisurely early lunch at home, at The Castle, before Vicki started out for Chicago. It was Thursday, February twelfth, Lincoln's Birthday, an appropriate day to be in Lincoln's state, Illinois. The holiday explained why Mr. Barr was not teaching at nearby State University that day. The holiday did not account for Vicki's presence at home. As a flight stewardess, she often worked on holidays.
Vicki popped in and out of The Castle between assignments, whenever she could. That wasn't often. Perhaps now that Federal Airlines was transferring her to the Electra and one of its transcontinental runs, she might be lucky enough to see her family more often...
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
"You mean it's a hard assignment, don't you?" said Ginny. She was fourteen, and Vicki's younger sister.
Their mother, Betty Barr, said, "I'm sure if I had your job on a jet-prop - Or is it a jet? Which is it, Lewis?"
Professor Barr looked amused. "You know perfectly well. The all-jet without propellers," he said, "the Boeing 707, is used more for long hauls - nonstop coast to coast, or across oceans. The Electra 188, with jet engines and propellers, is used mainly for intercity travel. I trust I have the facts correct, Victoria."
He smiled at Vicki who looked so much like him - fair hair, light-blue eyes, the thoughtful Barr gaze - that it was a family joke.
"Well, anyhow," said Vicki's mother, "if I had to get sixty-eight passengers safely on, off, and fed, in two hours - Whew!"
"Fortunately I'm not going to have to do everything all by myself," Vicki answered. "Jean Cox and I will work the New York-Chicago-San Francisco run together on the Electra."
They were having a leisurely early lunch at home, at The Castle, before Vicki started out for Chicago. It was Thursday, February twelfth, Lincoln's Birthday, an appropriate day to be in Lincoln's state, Illinois. The holiday explained why Mr. Barr was not teaching at nearby State University that day. The holiday did not account for Vicki's presence at home. As a flight stewardess, she often worked on holidays.
Vicki popped in and out of The Castle between assignments, whenever she could. That wasn't often. Perhaps now that Federal Airlines was transferring her to the Electra and one of its transcontinental runs, she might be lucky enough to see her family more often...
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
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