But we must admit the possibility that continued investigation and experience will bring us ever nearer to that solemn moment, when the first man will rise from earth by means of wings, if only for a few seconds, and mark… — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
But we must admit the possibility that continued investigation and experience will bring us ever nearer to that solemn moment, when the first man… — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
All flight is based upon producing air pressure, all flight energy consists in overcoming air pressure. — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once. — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
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 gliding had been made hundreds of years before him, and that in the nineteenth century, Cayley, Spencer, Wenham, Mouillard, and many others were reported to have made feeble attempts to glide, but their… — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share
Particular honour belongs to those who believed in the possibility of mechanical flight when all the world was against them; not the visionaries because they hoped for it merely, but those who by sheer force of intellect perceived the means by which it could be accomplished and directed their experiments along the right path. ... The name of Lilienthal is… — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share
One can get a proper insight into the practice of flying only by actual flying experiments. . . . The manner in which we… — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
Artificial flight may be defined as that form of aviation in which a man flies at will in any direction by means of an… — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds. — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything. — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
