Hanna Reitsch

[Henry Musikar]

If Hanna Reitsch is already covered in the Pyncon-l archives, just 
tell me where to go <grin>, but I read in Isaac Asimov's Book of 
Facts (so it must be true <smirk>):

"Daredevil pilot Hanna Reitsch was the first woman to test a rocket 
plane, the Messerschmitt Me163, and may be the only person to have 
'traveled' for in-flight observation in a test model of the V1-V2 
rockets. Testing what was the latest vehicle, she inevitably crashed 
many times (as she did in that Me163); it was said with some 
exaggeration that there was not a single bone in her body that hadn't 
been broken at least once. Hanna Reitsch appears in history books as 
the lone pilot who -- in the final days of the siege of Berlin -- 
flew into the Nazi capital to rescue Adolf Hitler at the very last 
moment. (Hitler insisted on staying behind, and killed himself in his 
bunker.)"

Whatta woman!

AsB4,
Henry Musikar

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