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Peter- for your file Mike F. has a copy Biography- Ann. B. Carl, WASP Born in Augusta, Georgia, but grew up in rural New Jersey Mother- Artist; Father- Patent Attorney in New York City and Washington, DC Education: Walnut Hill School, Natick, Mass. Graduate of Smith College - pre-med and psychology major Graduate work at NYU in organic chemistry Courses at Art Student's League After Graduation: Feature writer for NY Times Public Relations for Eastern Airlines (while E. Rickenbacker was president) Travel in England and the U.S. and by freighter in European waters (while visiting my uncle Sir Vernon Kell, head of MI-5, had to leave England in 1939 on a refugee ship) Mountain climbing, wilderness canoe trips, thoroughbred horse training Early flight training, private and commercial tickets, owner of tired Piper cub WASP (1943-1945) Houston and Sweetwater Air Force Training Assignment to Camp Davis tow target squadron Assignment to Wright Field and transfer there to Fighter Flight Test 27 different plans flown (including 2 British bombers, 1 German bomber, fighters to YP-59, bombers to B-29) After demobilization joined Wright Field Public Relations to write about FFT and BFT heroes Married William Carl (1945), major USAF, Langley Field, VA, Designer of XP-82, graduate of Princeton University Lived on Long Island for approximately 30 years; retired to Virginia Two children- Son is professor of architecture at Cambridge University, England; Daughter lives in Canada, teacher of the flute Three grandchildren Activities; (not necessarily chronological) A director of Dynamic Developments, Inc, a company to research and build hydrofoil ships for the US Navy which was formed by my husband and Dr. Robert Gilruth, former director of NASA Space Center in Houston. It was later purchased by Grumman Aircraft Corp.