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A WASP among Eagles : a woman military test pilot in World War II / Ann B. Carl.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, ©1999.Description: x, 132 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1560988428
  • 9781560988427
  • 1560988703
  • 9781560988700
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: The memoir of a woman test pilot in World War II. The author belonged to a corps of women pilots on the home front who for the most part delivered planes and tested repaired ones. In her case, however, she experimentally tested the B-29 Superfortress and the Bell YP-59A jet fighter. After the war she became a journalist and sailor, sailing all the way to Turkey.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Biography Carl, A. C278 Available 33111009721560
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The first-person story of how Ann Baumgartner Carl learned to fly, trained as a WASP, and became one of the earliest jet-age pioneers. She details her own experience test flying jets, which was unique among WASPs, as well as a watershed era in the history of aviation.

Includes bibliographical references (page 127) and index.

The memoir of a woman test pilot in World War II. The author belonged to a corps of women pilots on the home front who for the most part delivered planes and tested repaired ones. In her case, however, she experimentally tested the B-29 Superfortress and the Bell YP-59A jet fighter. After the war she became a journalist and sailor, sailing all the way to Turkey.

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