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Hanna Reitsch

1912 - 1979

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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. Reitsch set more than 40 flight altitude records and women's endurance records in gliding and unpowered flight, before and after World War II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hanna Reitsch has received more than 1,483,317 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Hanna Reitsch is the 5th most popular pilot (up from 7th in 2019), the 107th most popular biography from Poland (down from 104th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Pilot.

Hanna Reitsch was a German aviator and test pilot who became the first woman to fly a helicopter.

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Among PILOTS

Among pilots, Hanna Reitsch ranks 5 out of 71. Before her are Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Roland Garros, and Sabiha Gökçen. After her are Adolf Galland, Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, Ernst Udet, Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, Francis Gary Powers, Ivan Kozhedub, and Hermann Graf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Hanna Reitsch ranks 22. Before her are John Cage, Khalid of Saudi Arabia, Heinrich Harrer, Clara Petacci, Carlo Ponti, and Chuck Jones. After her are Gene Kelly, Adolf Galland, Sergiu Celibidache, Robert Doisneau, James Callaghan, and Konrad Emil Bloch. Among people deceased in 1979, Hanna Reitsch ranks 20. Before her are Ludvík Svoboda, Jean Seberg, Mustafa Barzani, Nelson Rockefeller, Sonia Delaunay, and Hafizullah Amin. After her are Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Nadia Boulanger, Sid Vicious, Werner Forssmann, Bertil Ohlin, and Robert Burns Woodward.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Hanna Reitsch ranks 107 out of 1,694. Before her are Ulrich Beck (1944), Pola Negri (1897), Jan Matejko (1838), Mieszko I of Poland (940), Maria Feodorovna (1759), and Leopold Kronecker (1823). After her are Zdzisław Beksiński (1929), Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899), Alexander Jagiellon (1461), Fred Zinnemann (1907), Jarosław Kaczyński (1949), and Władysław Reymont (1867).

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Among PILOTS In Poland

Among pilots born in Poland, Hanna Reitsch ranks 1. After her are Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen (1895), and Jadwiga Piłsudska (1920).

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