She flew a record-breaking US flight – but it was kept secret for years | CNN

Lynn Rippelmeyer had the dispatcher call the owner of the airline and heard him screaming through the phone: “He said I could take the flight, but we couldn’t make any announcements and we had to keep the cockpit door closed. Nobody had to know there were two women in there. So that’s what we did.”

It was December 30, 1977, and that was the first scheduled flight in the United States with an all-female crew – but it was kept a secret. At least, “since nobody died,” Lippenmeyer says, the two were no longer intentionally kept apart and flew together many more times.