First all-female crew?

[Hussar 54]

Originally Posted by megan

Lennie Sorenson makes some claims, don't know the veracity as to "first".

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennie-sorenson-28985312

Emily Howell Warner was the first in the USA to make airline Captaincy in 1976 (Twin Otter with Frontier)

Mention of the 747....

I've always believed that the first ladies only flight on a 747 was a People Express flight from EWR to LGW in the early 80s....Or was that just that airline's first ladies only flight ??

[treadigraph]

Hussar, I think Lynn Ripplemeyer was the captain - I have seen an interview with her some years ago and I'm sure she mentioned an all lady crew trans-Atlantic.

[Rory Keegan]

Originally Posted by Mooncrest

Apologies if I'm mistaken about the following. In the UK, the first all female-crewed commercial flight was on a BIA Herald some time in the 1970s. Captain Caroline Frost at the helm.

It was on a British Air Ferries flight. Our inaugural from Southend to Dusseldorf. I organised it, I asked Caroline to fly it for us, more like we plotted to do it behind everyone's back for nearly 2 years. I was the BAF Director of PR & Marketing ... they rest of the board thought we would be out of business a week later. They were wrong.

[India Four Two]

Google: 'Joan Hughes pilot' for a selection of photographs including the one of her standing next to the mainwheel of a Stirling.

GALHI,

One of my all time favourite photos:
photos!

When Doug Bianchi built the aircraft for "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines", the Demoiselle was found to be somewhat underpowered, so the the solution was to get Joan Hughes (5' 2") to fly it!