Legendary German test pilot Hanna Reitsch

[rampking]

Found this on YouTube today,
The last known interview with Hanna Reitsch thirty years since her death.
(1912-1979)
One of the best test pilots of all time.
She test flew the Me-321 Gigant, Me-163 Komet, Fieseler FI-103 V-1, and the world's first helicopter..the Fa-61.
Also flew the last aircraft (Fi-156 Storch) out of Berlin in late April 1945.
Interview was filmed in 1976.
3 part interview with very rare aircraft video.
YouTube:
Hanna Reitsch - The Last Interview (Part 1 of 3)
also find it at:

http://www.webalice.it/romanoarchives/

*Perhaps someday, the Stormbirds.com Me262 Schwalbe will appear at the Reno Air Races

[flyingjibus]

Re: Legendary German test pilot Hanna Reitsch

In her book she describes being layed up in the hospital with bad burns all over her body from her accident in the 163 and laying there being near death and all she could think about was when they would let her fly the rocket plane again...

[rampking]

Re: Legendary German test pilot Hanna Reitsch

I forgot that there was a 1965 British movie called "OPERATION CROSSBOW that re-created Hanna Reitsch's test flight of the V-1 Buzz-bomb (or Doodlebug to the British)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPpUehliWG8