Title: A WASP among Eagles
First published: 1999
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.

"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Aerial operations, American, American Aerial operations, American Personal narratives, Biography, Personal narratives, American, Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.), Women air pilots, Women test pilots, World War, 1939-1945, Flugzeugführerin, Weltkrieg, American, Historical, Aerial Military operations, HISTORY, Militärflugzeug, Testpilot, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, Western, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, american, Women in aeronautics, World war, 1939-1945, aerial operations, american
Places: United States
People: Ann Carl
LC classification: D790 .C272 1999