Corinna Schwiegershausen
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Licensed to thrill Dec 28, 2010
The BD-5J is the world’s smallest jet. But it was still big enough to ensure that James Bond was shaken, though never stirred.
Schwiegershausen soars over Neuschwanstein May 5, 2010
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About Corinna
Corinna Schwiegershausen is to female hanggliding what Steffi Graaf is to tennis and Florence Griffith-Joyner is to athletics – a true great. The German fell in love with flying as a child and had already achieved widespread national success by the time she scooped her first world title in 1998, at the expense of American Kari Castle.
Their attempts to out-perform one another blossomed into one of world sport’s great rivalries as both women pushed the sport’s boundaries to greater and greater limits. Corinna got the better of her old adversary two further times at the World Championships in 2004 and 2006, and also scooped the European crown in 2008.
Corinna was also an integral member of the German women’s team which claimed its sixth successive World Championship gold medal in 2006. When she is not wowing the crowds with her aerial trickery, Schwiegershausen also presents her own action sports series on German TV and continues to pass on her expertise to a new generation of pilots.
