All flight is based upon producing air pressure, all flight energy consists in overcoming air pressure.
We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds. - Otto Lilienthal
We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.
- Otto Lilienthal
Of all the men who attacked the flying problem in the 19th century, Otto Lilienthal was easily the most important. ... It is true that attempts at gl… - Otto Lilienthal
Of all the men who attacked the flying problem in the 19th century, Otto Lilienthal was easily the most important. ... It is true that attempts at gl…
All flight is based upon producing air pressure, all flight energy consists in overcoming air pressure. - Otto Lilienthal
Particular honour belongs to those who believed in the possibility of mechanical flight when all the world was against them; not the visionaries beca… - Otto Lilienthal
Particular honour belongs to those who believed in the possibility of mechanical flight when all the world was against them; not the visionaries beca…
Artificial flight may be defined as that form of aviation in which a man flies at will in any direction by means of an apparatus attached to his body… - Otto Lilienthal
Artificial flight may be defined as that form of aviation in which a man flies at will in any direction by means of an apparatus attached to his body…
But we must admit the possibility that continued investigation and experience will bring us ever nearer to that solemn moment, when the first man wil… - Otto Lilienthal
But we must admit the possibility that continued investigation and experience will bring us ever nearer to that solemn moment, when the first man wil…
No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once. - Otto Lilienthal
No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once.
Small sacrifices must be made. - Otto Lilienthal
Small sacrifices must be made.
One can get a proper insight into the practice of flying only by actual flying experiments. . . . The manner in which we have to meet the irregularit… - Otto Lilienthal
One can get a proper insight into the practice of flying only by actual flying experiments. . . . The manner in which we have to meet the irregularit…
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