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	Otto Lilienthal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Otto Lilienthal (23 May 1848 – 10 August 1896), the German "Glider King", was a pioneer of human aviation.
		Lilienthal did basic research in precisely describing the flight of birds, especially of storks and used polar-diagrams for describing the aerodynamics of their wings.
		Lilienthal helped to prove that heavier-than-air flight was practical without flapping wings, laying the groundwork for the Wright brothers a few years later to build the first successful powered airplane.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Otto_Lilienthal (324 words)

	Otto Lilienthal - Wikipedia
		Lilienthal führte den ersten Gleitflug nach dem Prinzip "schwerer als Luft" durch und unterschied sich von zahlreichen Vorläufern dadurch, dass er nicht einen einzigen Flug versuchte, sondern nach ausführlichen theoretischen und praktischen Vorarbeiten deutlich über 1.000mal gesegelt ist.
		Daran nahm Gustav nicht mehr teil, eine zeitweilige Krankheit, aber auch seine beruflichen Aktivitäten hinderten ihn daran.
		Insgesamt hatte Otto Lilienthal in seinem Leben 21 Flugapparate, darunter auch Flügelschlagapparate gebaut.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Otto_Lilienthal (1624 words)

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	www.ins-inc.net /otto/lilienthal/kaserne (7724 words)

	Otto LILIENTHAL - Vikipedio
		Otto LILIENTHAL [oto LILjental] (naskiĝis la 23-an de majo 1848, mortis la 10-an de aŭgusto 1896) estis germana inĝeniero kaj entreprenisto.
		Kune kun sia frato Gustav LILIENTHAL li regule eksperimentis per siaj flugiloj, komence starante surgrunde, por elprovi la konduton de la flugiloj en la vento.
		Otto Lilienthal disvastigis siajn sciojn per prelegoj kaj publikaĵoj, influis multajn aviadistojn, inter ili la fratojn WRIGHT.
	eo.wikipedia.org /wiki/Otto_LILIENTHAL (216 words)

	Otto Lilienthal
		Otto Lilienthal was a German aeronautical engineer who is best known for his glider research and flights.
		Lilienthal was born in Anklam, Germany, in 1848.
		Lilienthal was killed on August 9, 1896, when he stalled and crashed to the ground while gliding.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Dictionary/Lilienthal/DI64.htm (300 words)

	Lilienthal – The "Flying Man"
		Lilienthal was born in Pomerania, Germany in 1848.
		Lilienthal tabulated the amount of air resistance offered to a bird's wing with various degrees of camber and determined that the curve was necessary to flight because it offered more resistance than a flat surface.
		Lilienthal's first glider, the 1891 Derwitzer Glider, was constructed of rods of peeled willow covered by highly stretched strong cotton fabric.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Prehistory/lilienthal/PH6.htm (1315 words)

	First Flight
		Otto Lilienthal is one of the key figures in the history of flight.
		Lilienthal focussed on the canopied form of bird wing, rather than attempting to develop the cambered aerofoil, and just before his death had even completed a glider with motor driven wing-tips.
		Lilienthal's death was untimely and had a profound effect on the history of flight.
	firstflight.open.ac.uk /liliienthal/lilienthal.html (189 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Otto Lilienthal
		Lilienthal experimented with aeronautics during the latter half of the 19th century.
		He modeled the curved wings of his gliders after the wings of a bird.
		After more than 2,000 successful flights, Lilienthal was killed in a crash in 1896.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461541529/Otto_Lilienthal.html (40 words)

	Otto Lilienthal's 1893 pioneer monoplane Hang Glider (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Although initially convinced that the secret of fliaht was contained in moveable wing tips, like the wings of birds, Lilienthal later converted to the principle of the fixed wing and was planning to equip one of his crafts with an engine.
		In 1889 Otto Lilienthal published a book having the English title Bird Flight as the Basis of Aviation, wherein he studied the forms and anatomy of birds' wings and the application of data learned from them to the achievement of human flight.
		The purpose of this was to give better control in rising or descending by increasing the effect of the occupant swinging his body forwards or backwards and thus altering the centre of gravity.
	www.fiddlersgreen.net /AC/aircraft/Lilienthal-Hanglider/info/info.htm (760 words)

	History of Aeronautics
		In modern times Otto Lilienthal is credited with having attempted at least 2000 flights that kept him airborne for a total of several km.
		Lilienthal took off for the first time in the summer of 1891 with an "aircraft" (more properly a glider) having a wing span of 7.5 metres and a wing area of just 15 sq.
		Lilienthal was the first to understand the virtues of the curved wing.
	aerodyn.org /History/history.html (600 words)

	Otto Lilienthal
		Before Lilienthal, building a heavier-than-air craft was widely considered to be the province of dreamers and fools; afterwards it seemed possible to fly.
		Although Lilienthal was not the first to work with gliders, his systematic, organized approach, and his obvious success, defined the prototype "Airman." This example, followed by Chanute and the Wright brothers, was of tremendous importance in reducing the problem of inventing the airplane to manageable dimensions.
		Lilienthal's portrait was copied from one of the Aeronautical Annuals published by James Means around the turn of the century.
	invention.psychology.msstate.edu /i/Lilienthal/Lilienthal.html (774 words)

	A History of Aeronautics - Chapter VII. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		From 1871 onward Otto Lilenthal (Gustav's interest in the problem was not maintained as was his brother's) made what is probably the most detailed and accurate series of observations that has ever been made with regard to the properties of curved wing surfaces.
		Cayley, and others, had already stated this, but to Lilienthal belongs the honour of being first to put the statement to effective proof--he made over 2,000 gliding flights between 1891 and the regrettable end of his experiments; his practical conclusions are still regarded as part of the accepted theory of students of flight.
		Lilienthal was the first to introduce the system of handling a machine in the air merely by moving his weight about in the machine; he always rested only on his elbows or on his elbows and shoulders....
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/tech/engineering/AHistoryofAeronautics/chap7.html (2885 words)

	American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics - History - Otto Lilienthal
		Otto Lilienthal, a German civil engineer, was born in 1848 at Anklam, Pomerania.
		From 1871 onward, Otto Lilienthal (Gustav's interest in flying was not maintained) made what is probably the most detailed and accurate series of observations about the properties of curved wing surfaces.
		Despite his lack of control, Lilienthal flew his gliders well and he was dubbed the first flying man. He was well known for his ability to glide for distances up to 1,000 feet.
	www.aiaa.org /content.cfm?pageid=462 (494 words)

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		Lilienthal spent countless hours studying birds in flight and poring over the designs created by other men who wanted to fly.
		Lilienthal began building gilders with wings that resembled those of birds and bats.
		Lilienthal's spine was broken and he died the next day in a hospital in Berlin.
	www.epindustries.com /otto.html (463 words)

	Otto Lilienthal: Brief Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Otto Lilienthal was born on 23rd May 1848 in Germany.
		Lilienthal became the top expert on gliders in Germany and gliding became a popular sport.
		Otto Lilienthal was killed on 10th August 1896 while he was flying one of his gliders in Berlin.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SAVlilenthal.htm (143 words)

	Airplanes Inventors: Otto Lilienthal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		From statements and writings left by the Wright brothers, it is clear Lilienthal was an important source of inspiration for their efforts.
		Echoes from Lilienthal's article Practical Experiments for the Development of Human Flight are clearly evident in Wilbur's address to the Western Society of Engineers, and in his first letter to Octave Chanute.
		Before Lilienthal, building a heavier-than-air craft was widely considered to be the province of dreamers and fools; afterwords it seemed possible to fly.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~stwright/WrBr/inventors/Lilienthal.html (592 words)

	Wright Brothers History: The Tale of the Airplane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lilienthal began his work on heavier-than-air craft not by developing a complete airplane, but instead by focusing his efforts on a fixed-wing glider.
		Lilienthal brought a much-needed respectability to the enterprise of inventing an airplane.
		In addition to the respectability he brought to the field, Lilienthal made two more important contributions to the nascent field of airplane invention: the style of perfecting a glider before attempting powered flight (which Gibbs-Smith refers to as the 'airman' approach), and a table of the lift provided by curved wings.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~stwright/WrBr/taleplane.html (838 words)

	Lilienthal, Otto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lilienthal demonstrated the superiority of cambered wings over flat wings - the principle of the aerofoil.
		Lilienthal was born in Pomerania (then part of Prussia), and trained as an engineer.
		From studies of the flight of birds, he learned that curved wings allow horizontal flight without an angle of incidence to the wind, and that soaring is related to air thermals.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/biographies/mainbiographies/L/Lilienthal/1.html (174 words)

	FLYING MACHINES - Otto Lilienthal
		Otto Lilienthal's numerous flights, over 2,000 in number, demonstrated beyond question that unpowered human flight was possible, and that total control of an aerial device while aloft was within reach.
		Otto and his brother Gustav made numerous measurements of lift and drag of various aerofoils during 1874, which they published in 1889.
		Otto Lilienthal's aerial influence was widespread, and his work was well-known within the U.S. Photographs and engravings depicting Lilienthal in flight were printed in many magazines and journals, and the effect then of seeing a human aloft with great arching wings can hardly be imagined.
	www.flyingmachines.org /lilthl.html (368 words)

	Wright Again
		Lilienthal constructed a variety of gliders and conducted flights from the top of a small hill.
		Lilienthal swung his legs to shift his weight, but unfortunately, the glider crashed breaking Lilienthal's spine.
		Otto Lilienthal was born in 1848 in Germany.
	wings.avkids.com /Book/Wright/history1_p18993.html (517 words)

	Air and Aircraft: Lilienthal Glider (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Otto Lilienthal (1848-1896), an engineer from Anklam, Germany, was one of the first humans to glide through the air.
		The Wright brothers were inspired by Lilienthal's designs, and the famous plane they used for the first powered flight was built in the biplane configuration.
		Lilienthal's gliders were carefully designed to distribute weight as evenly as possible to ensure a stable flight.
	www.californiasciencecenter.org /Exhibits/AirAndSpace/AirAndAircraft/LilienthalGlider/LilienthalGlider.php (368 words)

	Biography Otto Lilienthal
		Today Otto Lilienthal is called the first successful aviator of mankind.
		With his fundamental research on bird and artificial wings he founded the wing aerodynamics and lay the foundations for concepts we still use today.
		The biography of Otto Lilienthal is strongly influenced by and connected to that of his brother Gustav Lilienthal (1849 - 1933).
	www.lilienthal-museum.de /olma/eotto.htm (232 words)

	The Hindu : Otto Lilienthal(1848-1896): Founder of aeronautics
		OTTO LILIENTHAL was born on May 23, 1848 in Anklam, Prussia.
		Lilienthal's work could produce enormous influence, during and after his death because of the simultaneous advances in photography and printing - the dry-plate negative and half-tone printing process.
		Lilienthal's gliding experiments (since 1881) with winged apparatus convinced Lilienthal that the key to eventual powered flight was in glider-flying, by which men could master the elements of control and design.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/06/15/stories/08150005.htm (817 words)

	Otto Lilienthal Biography / Biography of Otto Lilienthal Main Biography
		With the design and construction of his first working glider, Otto Lilienthal (1848-1896) bestowed a sense of viability and respectability on the young science of aviation.
		Lilienthal flew thousands of flights on gliders he designed based on careful observations of birds.
		Yet Prussian design engineer Otto Lilienthal disregarded the social stigma associated with flying machine inventors and applied himself in earnest to the study of aerodynamic forces and design concepts.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-otto-lilienthal (229 words)

	Otto Lilienthal, the experimenter.
		As Marey, Lilienthal was interested by the flight of the birds, and as the unfortunate Mouillard, he was one of the firsts to demonstrate the importance of the wing's camber.
		Lilienthal is not only one of the Father of aviation, he invented piloting, the controlling of aircraft.
		Otto Lilienthal is not only an important person in aviation's history, he was also preoccupied with social progress, especially with the employees of his factory.
	aerostories.free.fr /precurseurs/lilien/page2.html (872 words)

	Otto Lilienthal biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Otto Lilienthal (23 May 1848 - 10 August 1896) was a pioneer of human aviation.
		Often working in conjunction with his brother, Gustav, he made over 2000 flights in gliders of his design between 1891 and his death five years later.
		On 9 August 1896, a gust of wind fractured his wing and he fell from a height of 17 m, breaking his spine.
	otto-lilienthal.biography.ms (204 words)

	Flugsportverein "Otto Lilienthal" Stölln/Rhinow e.V.
		Seine Fluggeräte konstruierte und bauten Otto Lilienthal alle selbst in seiner Maschinenfabrik in der Köpenicker Straße, in Berlin.
		Otto Lilienthal kam meist an den Wochenenden zum Fliegen nach Stölln.
		Um Lilienthal in der DDR zu ehren, schlug man dem Lilienthal- Komitee- Ost von der Interflug vor, eine ausgemusterte Iljuschin 62 der Interflug direkt in Stölln, an der Wirkungsstätte Lilienthals, zu landen.
	www.flugsport-stoelln.de /html/historie.html (3201 words)

	UNC-TV:Mystery Of Flight
		Otto Lilienthal has been described as “the worlds' first true aviator”; and his results and methods were an inspiration to many other pioneers, particularly the Wright brothers.
		He was the first to realize that the only way to gain essential experience in design and control was to first learn how to glide, a feat he attempted by launching himself from an artificial hill near Berlin or from the Rhinower Hills.
		Lilienthal focused on the canopied form of bird wing, rather than attempting to develop the cambered aerofoil, and just before his death had even completed a glider with motor driven wing tips.
	www.unctv.org /firstflight/OttoLilienthal.html (187 words)

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