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A Wasp Among Eagles: A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II
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A Wasp Among Eagles: A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II Paperback - 2000

by Ann Carl

A former military test pilot in World War II and the first American woman to fly a jet, Carl shares the story of her unusual career, gives a history of the WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots), and shows how women performed a valuable function during World War II. 20 photos.


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Before World War II 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.

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  • Title A Wasp Among Eagles: A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II
  • Author Ann Carl
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd Paperback Ed
  • Pages 152
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Smithsonian Books, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
  • Date August 17, 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781560988700 / 1560988703
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.95 x 5.96 x 0.51 in (22.73 x 15.14 x 1.30 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial operations,
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

Media reviews

“A jet-age pioneer, Carl was the only American woman to test-fly experimental planes during WWII and the first woman to fly a jet. She was one of about a thousand WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots), women military flyers on the home front, who—with zero publicity and very low status—ferried planes to bases, served as flight instructors, and test-piloted repaired aircraft. This extraordinary memoir is a spirited, timely story about staying aloft in a male-dominated profession.”—Publishers Weekly

“[Carl] is as skilled a scribe as a pilot [and her] words flow precisely and compellingly.”—Stars and Stripes

About the author

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