Vera von Bissing, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German aviator
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Place of Birth: Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
About Vera von Bissing
- Vera von Bissing (October 23, 1906 – June 15, 2002) was a German aerobatic pilot. She earned her pilots license in 1930, and subsequently trained in aerobatics with Gerhard Fieseler.
- She began competing in aerobatic competitions - in 1932, von Bissing competed in an international aerobatics meeting in Zurich, Switzerland, where she was placed sixth.
- In 1936, she flew a Messerschmitt M35 at the World Aerobatic Championships' Olympic Celebration Competition, held alongside the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
- She also participated in the women's event of the competition, held for the opening of the Rangsdorf airfield, and won.
- The following year, von Bissing competed in an international aviation event in Zürich.
- In 1939, she performed at an airshow in Eastbourne, England, where her execution of loops and half-rolls were described as "gems of precision".During World War II, von Bissing was employed as the head of a regional repair yard of the National Socialist Flyers Corps Group 6, at Eschwege, with approximately 100 planes.
- After the war, von Bissing described her work as including test-flying all planes once repaired, arranging engineering supplies for the yard, distributing and checking parachutes, and managing a ferrying centre which ferried small aircraft from factories to the Luftwaffe supply parks.
- She commanded about 100 ferry pilots, all men, and ferried over 1,000 planes without an accident.
- In 1944 von Bissing was awarded the War Merit Cross for her services.
- In 1945, at the end of the war, she was arrested by the Allied forces, but released after a few days.In 2010, a biography of von Bissing by Ernest Probst was published by GRIN Publishing.
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