“She Slept Peacefully — Until the Captain Screamed: ‘Any Fighter Pilots on Board?!’”

need for anything beyond the routine competence of the crew.

And that, she thought before sleep took her, was the point.

Aviation was supposed to be boring.

The most meaningful result of her work was not that people now knew her name or her record or what she had done on 1 night over the Atlantic. It was that thousands of passengers would never know how continue reading …