Wasp Among Eagles by Ann B Carl

Wasp Among Eagles by Ann B Carl

Before World War I most Americans did not believe that the average woman could fly professionally, but during the war more than a thousand women pilots proved them wrong. These were the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), who served as military flyers on the home front. In March 1944 one of them, Ann Baumgartner, was assigned to the Fighter Flight Test Branch at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. There she would make history as the only woman to test-fly experimental planes during the war and the first woman to fly a jet.

A WASP among Eagles is the first-person story of how Baumgartner learned to fly, trained as a WASP, and became one of the earliest jet-age pioneers. Flying such planes as the Curtiss A-25 Helldiver, the Lockheed P-38, and the B-29 Superfortress, she was the first woman to participate in a host of experiments, including in-air refueling and flying the first fighter equipped with a pressurized cockpit. But in evaluating the long-awaited turbojet-powered Bell YP-59A, she set a first record that would remain unchallenged for ten years.

ANN B. CARL was the first American woman to fly a United States Army Air Forces jet aircraft.

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ISBN 13	9781560988700
ISBN 10	1560988703
Titel	Wasp Among Eagles
Autor	Ann B Carl
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Smithsonian Books
Erscheinungsjahr	2010-06-22
Seitenanzahl	152
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.