Marta Bohn-Meyer

Marta Bohn-Meyer (1957 to 2005) was an American engineer and pilot. Born in Amityville, New York, she graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1979 and met her husband, Robert Meyer, during an internship at NASA. She became chief engineer of the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, was the first woman assigned as a crewmember on the Lockheed SR-71, serving as navigator on studies of aerodynamics and propulsion, and managed a project studying an advanced laminar flow wing on the General Dynamics F-16XL. She was also an accomplished unlimited aerobatic pilot, twice a member of the United States Unlimited Aerobatic Team and its team manager in 2005. She died on 18 September 2005 while practising for the national aerobatic championships, when the aircraft she was flying crashed in Oklahoma. She was also known as a role model who encouraged young women to take up technical careers.