A short video about Hanna Reitsch (1912-1979)
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Books by Hanna Reitsch:
Flying is my life by Hanna Reitsch
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1932: women's gliding endurance record (5.5 hours)
1936: women's gliding distance record (305 km (190 mi))
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: the first woman to fly a helicopter (Fa 61)
1937: world distance record in a helicopter (109 km (68 mi))
1938: the first person to fly a helicopter (Fa 61) inside an enclosed space (Deutschlandhalle)
1938: winner of German national gliding competition Sylt-Breslau Silesia
1939: women's world record in gliding for point-to-point flight.[59]
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 of three German women 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 Rechlin during the trials of the Messerschmitt Me 262 and Heinkel He 162
1952: third place in the World Gliding Championships in Spain together with her team-mate Lisbeth Häfner
1955: German gliding champion
1956: German gliding distance record (370 km (230 mi))
1957: German gliding altitude record (6,848 m (22,467 ft))
References:
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Federal German Archive
Ziegelbrenner
Archiv der Gerhard-Fieseler-Stiftung
MPW57
Jakubkaja
Daniel Ulrich Threedots
