First Officer Lynn Rippelmeyer

First Officer Lynn Rippelmeyer

Women air pilots -- United States

First Officer Lynn Rippelmeyer at the controls of a Seaboard World Airlines Boeing 747. In 1980, Rippelmeyer was the first woman to fly as a pilot on the Boeing 747. She was later hired by People Express Airlines, where she was a co-captain of the first all-female crew on a Boeing 737 in 1982.

Photo Courtesy of Seaboard World Airlines

IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum

Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole

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Original Photo No. 343