Talk:Ann Baumgartner

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Ann wrote an autobiography that was published by Smithsonian Books in 1999, called A Wasp Among Eagles: A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II. Here's a link to the book on Amazon: link —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.210.123.50 (talk) 04:45, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

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Major William Carl did not design the P/F-82. The design of the F-82 was headed by Edgar Schmued. Schmued was responsible for the P-51, P-82, F-86, F-100, T-38, and F-5. Major William Carl may have been involved in the design, development or service testing/acceptance of the F-82 but most certainly did not design it. Perhaps the original author could best revise the sentence which states he did.

Mark Lincoln (talk) Mark Lincoln (talk) 21:00, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

I have determined that Major William Carl was Air Forces laison officer at NACA Langley Field. The issue of discussion in which he was involved concerned whether an aircaft could be flown by a pilot from an off center fuselage. The Blom & Voss BV-141 had been flying since 1938, which had answered that question. That being a obscure bit of information in 1944 it is not unreasonable to see why an experiment was made in the US during the war. An older P-38, 40-744, had its left boom modified with the turbosupercharger removed and replaced by a functioning cockkpit. The testing was essentially biomedical to determine if a offset pilot could function in fighter manuvers. Ann Baumgartner was one of the test pilots of the RP-38. The RP-38 was scrapped at Bush Feild Georgia, on May 7, 1945.

Mark Lincoln (talk) 21:57, 24 December 2023 (UTC)