Marta Bohn-Meyer

[1] Marta Bohn-Meyer served as chief engineer of the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.

Bohn-Meyer was involved in a variety of research projects at NASA — she was the first female crewmember assigned to the Lockheed SR-71, serving as navigator during studies of aerodynamics and propulsion that used the SR-71 as a testbed.

She was also project manager in a study of advanced laminar flow wing design using the General Dynamics F-16XL aircraft.

[4][5] Bohn-Meyer was a 1979 graduate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. At that time she met her husband, Bob Meyer, during an internship at NASA.

She could often be found in classrooms encouraging young women to explore career fields that have so long been dominated by men.

NASA Dryden flight test engineer Marta Bohn-Meyer is suited up for a research flight in the F-16XL laminar-flow control experiment in this 1993 photo.
Flight engineers Marta Bohn-Meyer and Bob Meyer and pilots Ed Schneider and Rogers Smith flew the triple-sonic SR-71 in high-speed research experiments at NASA Dryden.