1. Marta Bohn-Meyer The First Female Crewmember of an SR-71 Blackbird
Role Model
Marta Bohn-Meyer
The First Female Crewmember of an
SR-71 Blackbird

2. Marta Bohn-Meyer Dossier:
Operations Engineer for Dryden’s F-104 aircraft.
Operations Engineer for the F-14 Variable Sweep Laminar Flow Flight Experiment.
SR-71: 1st female Crew member for NASA. 2nd female to fly in the SR-71 Blackbird.
Chief Engineer of the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, CA.
Died in a 2005 sport plane accident in Oklahoma City.

3. What is Laminar Flow?
Laminar flow airfoils were originally developed for the purpose of making an airplane fly faster. They keep the air molecules close to the wing for much longer period of time.

4. 4 Rights The “Right” Place The “Right” Time The “Right” Qualifications
The “Right” Enthusiasm

5. Education Graduate high school from Long Island, New York.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. She earned her B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering.
She credits her parents, mentors, supervisors, and her friends for her [success].

6. SR-71: Senior Crown 1st mission over Vietnam in March of 1968
Able to map 100,000 sq. miles in an hour
Never lost a plane to hostile fire
Famous intelligence gathered: Yom Kippur War, Isreali invasion of Lebanon 1982 & USA action against Libya in 1986.
Permanent retirement in 2001

7. SR-71 Blackbird Specifications
Originally designed as a “Spy Plane” by Lockheed Martin.
Strategic Reconnaisance, but was orginally the RS-71, for Reconnaisnance Strike
Ceiling excess of 100,000 feet.
Speeds of over mach 3.2 (Over 2,000 mph). LA to DC in 1 hour 4 minutes and 20 seconds (2,124 mph). (761.2 mph, or knots, or 1116 ft/s)
Costs $50,000 per hour to operate. (2001 dollars)
Ti alloy skin can withstand temperatures of 600 F at top speeds