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Otto Lilienthal
Otto Lilienthal was born in Anklam on 23rd May, 1848. After studying mathematics and bird studies he trained as a mechanical engineering at the ...
Otto Lilienthal: Brief Notes
Otto Lilienthal was born on 23rd May 1848 in Germany. He studied maths and bird studies in Berlin and talked at public meetings about flight.
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Liliienthal: Otto Lilienthal is one of the key figures in the history of flight. He has been described as “the worlds' first true aviator” and his results and methods were an ...

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Lilienthal, Otto (1848-1896), German inventor and aeronautical engineer, who was the first to demonstrate the advantage of curved surfaces for aircraft wings. He studied aerodynamics, particularly the flight of birds, and by 1877 he had invented a glider with arched wings like a bird's. His first successful flight occurred in 1891. After making more than 2,000 flights, he was killed when his glider crashed. He wrote Birdflight as the Basis of Aviation (1889; trans. 1911).