Hanna Reitsch - Aviator - Test Pilot - Forgotten Legend

Hanna Reitsch (29 March 1912 -- 24 August 1979) was a German aviator and the only woman awarded the Iron Cross First Class and the Luftwaffe Combined Pilots-Observation Badge in Gold with Diamonds during World War II.
reitsch was the first woman to fly a helicopter, a rocket plane, and a jet fighter. She set over forty aviation altitude and endurance records during her career, both before and after World War II, and several of her international gliding records are still standing to this day.

List of awards and world records

1932: women's gliding endurance record (5.5 hours)
1936: women's gliding distance record (305 km)
1937: first woman to cross the Alps in a glider
1937: the first woman in the world to be promoted to flight captain by Colonel
Ernst Udet
1937: world distance record in a helicopter (109 km)
1938: the first person to fly a helicopter Focke-Wulf Fw 61 inside an enclosed space (Deutschlandhalle)
1938: winner of German national gliding competition Sylt-Breslau (Schlesien)
1939: women's world record in gliding[clarification needed]
1943: While in the Luftwaffe, the first woman to pilot a rocket plane (Messerschmitt Me 163). She survived a disastrous crash though with severe injuries and because of this she became the first and only German woman to receive the Iron Cross First Class.
1944: the first woman in the world to pilot a jet aircraft at the Luftwaffe research centre at Reichlin during the trials of the Messerschmitt Me 262 and Heinkel He 162

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[szaki]

Was she a lesbian like Amelia Earhart?

Usually woman achievers are!

of FRAU HARBISSINA in the Austin Powers are based on the image of Hanna Reitsch the leather clad lesbian test pilot shown near the start of this film

[spottydog4477]

@szaki grow up sonny

[szaki]

@AWolfRampant

Uh!

Conspiracy theories!

6 billion people of the world is so stupid, 20 million Jews can take them over!

[shortist2003]

@AWolfRampant I meant that sarcastically.

[AWolfRampant]

@staples1962 No, szaki is just another homosexual promoting his vice. He'd rather live under the sign of the scorpion.

/watch?v=1Mlw2mlf35Y

[AWolfRampant]

@staples1962 why not be proud of the Waffen SS the first Pan European Army in which the non-Germans outnumbered the Germans. The men of SS Wallonie and SS Charlemagne fought like tigers not for Germany but for Europe. Men Like Henri Fenet (who was awarded both the Croix De Guerre & The Knights Cross) and Leon Degrelle. Men who had already won back their country in the eyes of Adolf Hitler and the Reich. Henri Fenet said his only regret was that he hadn't involved himself earlier.

[AWolfRampant]

@shortist2003 how kosher of you.

[AWolfRampant]

carried out her side of the pact and had used the suicide pill at last; there was apparently no post-mortem carried out on her body."

[AWolfRampant]

been an enigmatic reference to a suicide pact with von Greim, Reitsch's lover; they had both been given cyanide pills by Hitler while in the bunker, and Reitsch was known to have still kept hers. It is possible that she had made a pact with von Greim to follow him in committing suicide with him, albeit at a different time in order to dampen any rumours of their affair. Her death was announced shortly after Brown received this letter, which led him to wonder whether she had finally

[AWolfRampant]

@szaki her lover was Robert Ritter Von Greim, who committed suicide shortly after being capture by the Allies. She had made a suicide pact with him.

"In a postscript to her death, Eric Brown, a British test pilot who had known her before the war, was surprised to receive a letter from Reitsch that same month, in which she reminisced about their shared love of flying, the letter ending with the words; "It began in the bunker, and there it shall end". Brown speculated that this may have

[fluffy1931]

@staples1962 lol,..Pure rubbish dude. If you would like to compare 21st century warfare with 20th century warfare. Of the 322 German Army and SS divisions extant in Nov 1943, only 52 were armored or motorized. Of the Nov 1944 total of 264 combat divisions, only 42 were armored or motorized. The great bulk of the German combat strength-the old-type infantry divisions-marched into battle on foot, with their weapons and supply trains propelled almost entirely by four-legged horsepower.

[fluffy1931]

@staples1962 lol,..and unicorns.