Otto Lilienthal was an engineer who earned 20-some patents over his life and owned a company for boilers and similar, but he is mostly remembered for his gliders and contributions to aviation: he was the first to successfully make a heavier-than-air flying glider, and proved to the world that human flight was completely possible. He also compiled a large amount of data used by the Wright brothers, who were largely inspired by his work.
He died August 10, 1896, a day after his glider stalled when testing a new design, after a heat eddy threw him off balance and he failed to recover. He fell 50 feet and died from a shattered spine.
Otto Lilienthal invented the first controllable gliders. His designs have led him to be considered one of earliest pioneers of aviation.
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The first powered aeroplane built that actually flew was made by Wilbur and Orville Wright in 1903. But there were unpowered gliders built by people like Otto Lilienthal before this time that were able to fly (or glide)
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Otto Lilienthal was born on May 23, 1848.
Otto Lilienthal was born on May 23, 1848.
Otto Lilienthal died on August 10, 1896 at the age of 48.
Otto Lilienthal is important to flight because he was the first person to make repeated and successful flights.
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Otto Lilienthal
Otto Lilienthal was born on May 23, 1848 and died on August 10, 1896. Otto Lilienthal would have been 48 years old at the time of death or 167 years old today.
Otto Lilienthal
Otto Lilienthal
Otto Lilienthal flies his first manned glider in the first of series of over 2,000 experimental gliders
Otto Lilienthal
The winged purssian was Otto Lilienthal