Author: Ken Chilstrom
Publisher: Wpasb Educational Fund
ISBN: 9780961791728
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Author: Ann Carl
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588343413
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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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.

Author: James T. Controvich
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810850101
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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This bibliography lists published and printed unit histories for the United States Air Force and Its Antecedents, including Air Divisions, Wings, Groups, Squadrons, Aviation Engineers, and the Women's Army Corps.

Author: Wright Flying School
Publisher:
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
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Category : Airplanes
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Author: Donald L. Barlett
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393078582
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 692

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The life that inspired the major motion picture The Aviator, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese. Howard Hughes has always fascinated the public with his mixture of secrecy, dashing lifestyle, and reclusiveness. This is the book that breaks through the image to get at the man. Originally published under the title Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard Hughes.

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Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Publisher: Department of the Air Force
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Tells the story of how Dayton, Ohio and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base became America's "Cradle of Aviation".