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Mar 29, 1912 Jelenia Góra, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland Died on 24 Aug 1979 (aged 67)
German aviator
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About Hanna Reitsch
- Hanna Reitsch (29 March 1912 – 24 August 1979) was a German aviatrix and test pilot.
- During the Nazi era, she and Melitta von Stauffenberg flight tested many of the regime's new aircraft. She set more than 40 flight altitude records and women's endurance records in gliding and unpowered flight, before and after World War II.
- In the 1960s, she was sponsored by the West German foreign office as a technical adviser in Ghana and elsewhere, and founded a gliding school in Ghana, where she worked for Kwame Nkrumah.
