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Hanna Reitsch (29 March 1912 – 24 August 1979) was a German aviator and test pilot. Along with Melitta von Stauffenberg, she flight-tested many of Germany's new aircraft during World War II and received many honors. Reitsch was among the very last people to meet Adolf Hitler alive in the Führerbunker in late April 1945.
Seeking to avoid further accidents while also hoping to uncover the source of these difficulties, further test flights were carried out by Heinz Kensche and Hanna Reitsch, both of whom were particularly accomplished test pilots. [21] [1] Reitsch herself experienced several crashes, which she survived unscathed. [16]
Hanna Reitsch was a well-known German test pilot who performed such flights with the V-1, [13] though she complained in a later interview that the film "was all technically wrong". [14] Constance Babington Smith was a British WAAF officer who interpreted aerial photographs of Peenemünde. [15]
The Sperber Junior, was designed as a development of the Rhönsperber for Hanna Reitsch by Hans Jacobs.It had much in common with his other Rhönsperber development, the Sperber Senior, though the latter was intended for large pilots.
On 11 August 1937 at Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Melitta married the historian Alexander Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, and on 28 October 1937, she was given the honorary rank of Flugkapitänin, or "flight captain", a rank reserved for test pilots in Germany at the time, and became only the second woman in Germany, after Hanna Reitsch, to achieve this.
The establishment of a suicide squadron (staffel) was originally proposed by Otto Skorzeny and Hajo Herrmann.The proposal was supported by test pilot Hanna Reitsch.The idea proposed was that Germany would use volunteers as suicide pilots in order to overcome the Allies' numerical advantages with their fanatic spirit.
Test pilot Hanna Reitsch carried out a test programme on the two prototypes of the glider version, releasing from its carrier aircraft at altitudes of 3,000–6,000 m (9,800–19,700 ft). Ground launches, using both cable-type catapults and rocket-assisted carriages on rails, were successfully conducted. [ 10 ]
Among those on the ground at Peenemünde were Walter Dornberger, noted rocket expert Wernher von Braun, and Nazi female test pilot Hanna Reitsch, who later claimed to have slept through the raid. Some markers were dropped too far south, and ultimately a number of buildings remained undamaged, while many bombs hit the forced labour camps ...