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A wasp among eagles
| Subtitle | a wasp among eagles |
| Publish Place | Washington |
| Publisher | Smithsonian Institution Press |
| Publish Year | 2010 |
| Pages | X, 132p. |
| ISBN/ISSN | 9781560988700 |
| Illustration | foto's |
| Language | English/Engels |
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 CAR 2010 - B
| 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. She would make history as the only woman to test-fly experimental planes during the war and the first woman to fly a jet. .This book is the first-person story of how Baumgartner learned to fly, trained as a WASP, and became one of the earliest jet-age pioneers. 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. 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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