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Lynn Rippelmeyer is the first woman to pilot the Boeing 747. Rippelmeyer flew the 747 as a first officer for Seaboard World Airlines 1980-1981. Seaboard World merged with Flying Tiger Line in 1980. Lynn became the first woman to captain the "jumbo jet" across the Atlantic Ocean while at People Express Airlines in 1984. Lynn started her aviation career as a TWA flight attendant in 1972 before obtaining a departmental transfer to pilot as a TWA B-727 flight engineer.[1] She was first officer on the first all-female crew for a scheduled commercial US carrier with Captain Emilie Jones, flying an Air Illinois, DHC-6 Twin Otter, 30 December 1977. This event was featured in the PBS documentary series We'll Meet Again with Ann Curry on Jan 8, 2019.[2] In 1982 at People Express, Rippelmeyer was a co-captain on the first all female Boeing 737 crew. People Express merged with Continental which later merged with United Airlines. At United, she trained on the B-787 Dreamliner before retiring in 2013.