I don't have your answer -- but what did Hannah Reitsch test fly for Hitler? She was a top test pilot for the Third Reich and did a lot of rocket testing and jet testing before most people had even heard of such things... ? She also did demo flights in helicopters when people refused to see them as a viable machine, including a famous flight inside a stadium, to prove they were controllable.... anyway, just thought I'd toss this out, maybe she is a clue...?
yes, hannah Reitsch did test fly many crayze aeronautical ideas...V-1, Me-163...that crayze and vulnerable 6 engined Messerschmit monster glyder...videos on this YouTube page:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPpUehliWG8 from a movie made about her life, don't know the name. I recognize several german/french actors, sound is in Spanish
...(not a good movie: but V-1 shots are interesting...for me) other videos on this page are in english, have interviews with Hannah & real films of that dark era, her & other germans test-piloting. Excellent information on her life by herself
(awfull accent!!!)...most of all these technician/pilots, worked later in the USA or the URSS. Nowadays, their descendants cooperate together on the ISS project...Soyuz & Shuttle are brothers in arms out there
(not for long: thanks to politician war adicts...)
