11 minutes of great mountain flying. Beats any 11 minutes of TV you can see any night, except maybe Flying Wild Alaska??

http://vimeo.com/18040707

Beautiful!

Gorgeous! Can someone translate the narrative?

Very Nice. I wish I could read the text but I had a hard enough time learning English to ever consider picking up a second language.

Thank goodness for free translators on the web. The language is German BTW. At least we now know what is written below the video:

In June 1978 Hanna Reitsch undertakes its last large flight over the alps.
With 66 years a last best performance is to succeed.
Hanna Reitsch would like to fly as far as no sail aviator before.

This is the reconstruction of their last large flight for
a TV-Portrait over Hanna Reitsch in September 2010.

Cameraman flight photographs: Jürgen of moorland
on board cameras: Fritz Erjautz
soil camera: Franz Riess
cut: Jürgen of moorland
sail flight pilot: Rupert Traussnigg
Gyrocopterpilot: Konrad all
dragging pilot: Alfred Neumann
dragging pilot: Patrick Strasser
plant management: Andrea min on

Hanna Reitsch was clearly one of history's foremost aviatrixes; I think she may have won the Iron Cross, and I'm guessing there weren't a bunch of women that did that.
Her reputation remains tarnished because she was an unrepentant Nazi to the day she died.

Her reputation remains tarnished because she was an unrepentant Nazi to the day she died.

In light of that fact, I move that we ask Zane to delete this thread. PG and other posters do you concur?

It's history folks,

Leave it to hell alone. I am sick of censorship and political correctness in our country. Nobody is promoting her cause or excusing her convictions....vile as they were.

Bob

Agreed. The video is great and regardless of her unpleasant personal convictions, she probably ranks as one of the greatest pilots and test pilots of aviation history. I don't think the video is gong to make any of us want to goosestep.

Before you guys try to dredge up a fight where there is none, consider that this is not video of Hanna Reitsch. She died in 1979, well before the invention of high definition digital video. Whomever put this together is paying homage to a specific flight of hers from back in the days when she was a soaring champion in the post-war period (lots to learn from Wikipedia!) which is something every aviator can appreciate without bias.

As to her political leanings, who cares? We probably would not agree with many modern Germans on that topic anyway. Charles Lindberg had some skeletons in his closet too, but he is one of our most celebrated historic aviators.

Enjoy some nice footage.

Wow, more great footage from this guy:

That is certainly beautiful scenery. Do we know where it was taken? I tried using an on-line translator but it wasn't any help this time.

blackrock wrote:That is certainly beautiful scenery. Do we know where it was taken? I tried using an on-line translator but it wasn't any help this time.

Allgau is the southern part of Bavaria, which is basically the German Alps and foothills, right where Germany borders Austria.

"As to her political leanings, who cares? We probably would not agree with many modern Germans on that topic anyway. Charles Lindberg had some skeletons in his closet too, but he is one of our most celebrated historic aviators".

Much less with each other

Hello guys!

My name is Jürgen Moors for Austria and I am the camera man of all the footage you have posted in here.
First of all thaks a lot for the nice and friendly comments on my work! Working as a specialist for
aerial shots is not always easy, so it is quite nice to read such a positive reaction among other pilots!

If you want to see more, here is another film that I did in the montains of Austria.
The translation of the titale means "nature park Ötscher, flight through wild canyons"

I'm 3/8ths German, and 100% of that blood gives you mad respect for being able to get footage that steady! Sprekenziebadass cuz!

The photography is great. The soaring experience has such a relaxing quality in combination with the music. It lets you become the soaring eagle with nothing but wind and nature. Thank you.

Well, I am 100% Austrian, and that is why I can do that!

Nice work. I need to get back under 240 pounds so I can use a glider again.

Hi everybody,

the footage of the first video was part of a critical documentary about Hanna Reisch and the role that she played during the Nazi regime.
The documentary critically engaged with her active support of the Nazis but also with her personality and her great love for flying.

The description of the documentary, translated by Google:
http://translate.google.de/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fprogramm.orf.at%2F%3Fstory%3D11854

I therefore think that even those who want to stay politically correct can enjoy the footage...

Cheers,

Oliver