Otto Lilienthal Quotes
- To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
- No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once.
- We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.
- One can get a proper insight into the practice of flying only by actual flying experiments. . . . The manner in which we have…