In the 1950s, flight crews consisted of no fewer than five people—the pilot, copilot, flight engineer, radio operator, and navigator, who used a sextant and the stars to determine where the ...

It was 1996, and I had just become a Trans World Airlines flight engineer on the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, based in New York City. No female airline pilot wants to look too butch, or worse ...