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Otto Lilienthal http://stuckattheairport.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/2_OttoLilienthalwearinghis-wing-500x385.jpg COULD THIS BE MIS-CAPTIONED? Is not that a version of the Bat glider by Percy Pilcher? or Herring [ ] ????? http://www.flyingmachines.org/chan.html Dune Park, 1896, Augustus M. Herring. Vote by several, so far: Herring. |
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Otto Lilienthal 1848 On 23 May comes Otto Lilienthal, the major aviation pioneer, the eldest of eight siblings in Anklam (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) world. His parents, Carl Friedrich Gustav Lilienthal cloth merchant and his wife Caroline (nee poles) are. 1856 He attended high school Anklam, is interested in bird studies and receive an excellent education at Gustav Sporer, a famous mathematician. 1864 Lilienthal moved to the provincial trade school in Potsdam, and lay there as the best exam ever to reach a student. 1867 After an internship year at the Berlin factory machinery Schwartzkopf, he begins an engineering degree at the Royal. Trade School in Potsdam. That same year, he begins with first Flugxperimenten, which are based on his bird observations. 1870 Lilienthal is participating as a one-on Prussian-French war Feiwilliger. 1873 The Lilienthal brothers, Otto's brother Gustav shares his enthusiasm for flying, become a member of the Aeronautic Society of Great Britain. Otto holds his first lecture on the theory of bird flight. 1874 They carry out systematic experiments on the aerodynamic forces on the wing and come to the conclusion that curved wings are the key to success. 1878 On 11 June married Agnes Fischer and Otto Lilienthal. The professional career is now for many years his home base. 1883 He established his own factory for steam boilers and steam engines in Berlin 1889 Otto Lilienthal published the book "The flight of birds as the basis of the art of flying." 1890 In summer, the brothers started with practical flight tests in which gasoline is the lead agency, as Gustav Immm can spare less time for flying. 1891 Otto Lilienthal succeed the first jumps with his aircraft. That same year, he performs with an improved apparatus, the first glider of 25m. The year 1891 will be the year of the first flights in history. 1893 Succeed in the mountains near Rhinower Stölln the first "real" flight distances up to 250 m. It can be patented his glider in Germany and the United States. 1894 He leaves in Lichterfelde a 15 meter high hill (the "Pilot Mountain"), heap up, from there to perform experiments on the problem of the dynamic center of pressure, ie to stabilize its flight. In subsequent years, the flight stability and control problems in the center of his work. 1895 Lilienthal came to the conclusion that effective control can not be achieved by shifting your weight, but by changing the wing position. The crucial importance of the lateral and vertical tail for flight and directional stability it does not recognize. 1896 On 9 August, he experimented with a slight improvement on the glider Stöllner Gollenberg. After several unsuccessful attempts he recorded a gust of wind, and he falls perpendicularly from about 17 m height. The next day, 10 August, he died of his severe back injuries in the Bergmann's clinic in Berlin. Literature: Hall, Gerhard Otto Lilienthal. The first pilot. VDI Verlag, Düsseldorf 1956 Schwipps, Werner: Lilienthal. The biography of Otto Lilienthal. Food Promotion 1983 |
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