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Lynn Rippelmeyer during her time as a flight attendant. From the article: Lynn Rippelmeyer as a Flight Attendant Lynn Rippelmeyer during her time as a flight attendant.

Former commercial pilot Lynn Rippelmeyer in the cockpit of a 747. She was the first female pilot to fly a Boeing 747 and the first female to captain a 747 transatlantic flight. Women couldn’t fly a ...

(CNN) — Lynn Rippelmeyer’s reach for the sky started from an unlikely place. “I grew up on a farm in the 1950s. There were no women flying, there were no female airline pilots. I had an interest in ...