A WASP among Eagles : a woman military test pilot in World War II / Ann B. Carl.
Material type: TextPublication details: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, ©1999.Description: x, 132 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1560988428
- 9781560988427
- 1560988703
- 9781560988700
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Biography | Carl, A. C278 | Available | 33111009721560 |
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.