Hanna Reitsch

Hanna Reitsch, born on 29 March 1912 and died on 24 August 1979, was a German aviator and test pilot. According to the source lead, she set more than 40 flight altitude records and women's endurance records in gliding and unpowered flight during the 1930s. She was among the very last people to meet Adolf Hitler before his suicide in the Fuhrerbunker in April 1945, and after her capture she gave information about her departure from Berlin and denied that she might have helped Hitler escape. In the 1960s the West German foreign office sponsored her as a technical adviser in Ghana and elsewhere, and she founded a gliding school in Ghana, where she worked for Kwame Nkrumah. The lead says nothing further about her aircraft or her test flying.