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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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A Wasp Among Eagles
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Ann Carl in her WASP uniform Page iii A Wasp Among Eagles - photo 2
Ann Carl in her WASP uniform.
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A Wasp Among Eagles
A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II
Ann B. Carl
Page iv 1999 by the Smithsonian Institution All rights reserved Copy - photo 3
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1999 by the Smithsonian Institution
All rights reserved
Copy editor: Initial Cap Editorial Services
Production editor: Ruth Spiegel
Designer: Martha Sewall
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Carl, Ann B. (Baumgartner)
A WASP among Eagles : a woman military test pilot in World War II / Ann B. Carl.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-56098-842-8 (alk. paper)
1. Carl, Ann Baumgartner 2. World War, 19391945Aerial operations, American.
3. World War, 19391945Personal narratives, American. 4. Women Airforce Ser
vice Pilots (U.S.)Biography. 5. Women air pilotsUnited StatesBiography.
6. Women test pilotsUnited StatesBiography. I. Title.
D790.C272 1999
940.54'4973'082dc21 98-39772
CIP
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data available
Manufactured in the United States of America
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Picture 4Picture 5 The recycled paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials ANSI Z39.48-1984.
For permission to reproduce illustrations appearing in this book, please correspond directly with the owners of the works as listed in the individual captions. The Smithsonian Institution Press does not retain reproduction rights for these illustrations individually or maintain a file of addresses for photo sources.
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Contents
Dedication and Acknowledgments
viii
Introduction
ix
1. Roots
1
2. Awakenings
9
3. War
20
4. Adventure
28
5. Women Airforce Service Pilots (Wasps)
33
6. In Service
41
7. Deaths
49
8. New Horizons
55
9. The Test Pilots
62
10. I Fly
71
11. Daily Danger
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12. Talk
80
13. Call Ann
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14. Social Flying
92
15. Return
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16. Winding Down
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17. Last Flights
107
Epilogue
111
Appendixes
A. Specifications for Aircraft Flown
116
B. Costs of Representative Aircraft, WWII
126
References
127
Index
129
Illustrations Follow Page
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A winged steed, unwearying in flight,
Sweeping through the air swift as a gale of wind.
HESIOD, The Catalogue of Women
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Dedication and Acknowledgments
This book deals with a particular time in World War II history and involves
real people, many of them well known, even famous. Realizing the grave re
sponsibilities in presenting them in my narrative, I have described them as I
knew them. What they say and do in this book is based on my recollection of
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