NAZI GERMANY AVIATION INNOVATORS - The Hütter Brothers' Story

There is an absolutely extraordinary amount of clever people doing clever things.... I got excited about the rear loading plane with the ramp.... the one on spindly landing gear..... AND the HUGE glider in the starter picture - there was a woman stunt pilot / test pilot and she said it was really fucking hard to fly... I forget her name for the moment - but she was one of the worlds most fameous and best glider / stunt pilots....

Hanna Reich - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Reitsch

I have put up a number of her videos and videos about what she was doing, on this site - and they too have disappeared.

She was a pretty incredible woman....

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Reitsch was a test pilot on the Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber and Dornier Do 17 light/fast bomber projects, for which she received the Iron Cross, Second Class, from Hitler on 28 March 1941.[19] Reitsch was asked to fly many of Germany's latest designs, among them the rocket-propelled Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet in 1942.[20] And as such, she became the first and only woman in the world to fly a rocket plane.[citation needed] A crash landing on her fifth Me 163 flight badly injured Reitsch; she spent five months in a hospital recovering.[21] Reitsch received the Iron Cross First Class following the accident, one of only three women to do so.[22] She was also the only woman to have flown the world's biggest glider, the Messerschmitt Me 321 Gigant (Giant).[citation needed] She was instrumental in having a second pilot added to the Me 321. She was also the first woman in the world to fly a jet fighter (Me 262), and the only woman in the world to have flown a cruise missile (Fieseler Fi 103R Reichenberg).[citation needed] She was also likely to have been the first woman to fly a dive bomber (Ju 87).[citation needed]