Flying was still a real novelty, so air stewards would often hand out postcards for passengers to document their on-board experience.
Without the hi-tech entertainment systems of the modern day, passengers were forced to find other ways to occupy themselves on a long flight. Flying was still a real novelty, so air stewards would often hand out postcards for passengers to document their on-board experience. Travellers would spend their flight scribbling details about their time in the air, from the fine food to the free-flowing booze.