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Hanna Reitsch died from memory?!

Posted by Lynn suddenly very afraid and trying to forget on Wed Jan 09, 2002 06:40:09 PM

In reply top Hanna Reich posted by david J burke on Wed Jan 09, 2002 03:42:52 PM

Kids, don't remember anything! It'll be the death of you yet! :)

All kidding aside, she did indeed do at least one test flight in a Reichenberg IV as a "proof of concept"...it may have been unpowered, I don't know, but I've read this a few times. Of course, it may have just been derivative propaganda, but until I'm shown otherwise I'll presume it to be true. She was an absolutely amazing woman, that Hanna, even though she flew for the "other side".

Lynn


: Hanna was the premier female test pilot in Germany during
: the war. She died in the late 1970's from memory but I am
: sure the is a autobiography which tells the story of her f
: ascinating life.

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