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Otto Lilienthal

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Otto Lilienthal , 1848-96, German aeronautical engineer, a pioneer in his experiments with gliders . He made major developments in the glider based on his observations of birds and wrote a number of books on aviation. His brother, Gustav Lilienthal, 1849-1933, was associated with Otto in his flying experiments and continued them after his brother's death. ... Read more
Lilienthal, Otto
World Encyclopedia Lilienthal, Otto (1849–96) German engineer and pioneer of glider design. A glider, designed by Sir George Cayley , had carried a passenger in 1853, but this aircraft had no controls. In 1891, Lilienthal became the first person to control a glider in flight. He made c. 2500 flights before his death in ... Read more
Otto Lilienthal
Encyclopedia of World Biography Otto Lilienthal With the design and construction of his first working glider, Otto Lilienthal (1848-1896) bestowed a sense of viability...ridiculed. Yet Prussian design engineer Otto Lilienthal disregarded the social stigma associated... Read more

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FATAL ACCIDENT HALTS GERMAN AVIATOR'S FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 5/27/2001; 659 words ; ...Wilbur Wright set for themselves, Otto Lilienthal should have been the first man...When these approaches failed, Otto went to engineering school and...succeeded with powered flight, Lilienthal later wrote, because ``our physical... Read more
WRIGHTS' INTEREST IN TEST DATA LED TO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 10/14/2001; 700+ words ; ...the German aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal caused Orville and Wilbur Wright...CAPTION(S): PHOTO COURTESY OF THE OTTO LILIENTHAL MUSEUM WEB SITE German aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal was the Wrights' inspiration... Read more
WRIGHTS SPENT WINTER DISPROVING WIND DATA.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 9/23/2001; 700+ words ; ...that the tables of air pressure prepared by Otto Lilienthal and used by aeronautical engineers of their...wind-speed calculations were wrong. COURTESY OF OTTO LILIENTHAL MUSEUM WEB SITE Otto Lilienthal relied on a coefficient for air pressure... Read more
DEATHS
Newspaper article from: The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL; 1/11/2002; 253 words ; Ruth Lilienthal DANVERS - The funeral of Ruth Delight Lilienthal, 84, of 207 E. Exchange St., Danvers, will be 11 a.m. Saturday at the Otto-Argo- Froelich Memorial Home, Danvers...Hargitt Martin. She married John William Lilienthal on Aug. 29, 1933, in Danvers. He died...include four sons, John E. ... Read more
QUESTIONING SCIENTIFIC RULES BROUGHT SUCCESS CLOSER.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 6/3/2001; 700+ words ; ...discussed the possibility that Otto Lilienthal's tables of lift coefficients...neither was confident that Lilienthal was wrong. ``We doubted...out this glide with the Lilienthal coefficients, but they...and curved. They knew why Lilienthal's data didn't work. And...tested a glider fitting ... Read more
Gliding Into History.
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 8/14/2006; ; 670 words ; ...They were all designed by Otto Lilienthal, Anklam's most famous native...testing his designs. In 1891, Lilienthal managed a brief swoop of...invention and progress, Lilienthal's fame spread quickly...school in America. But as Lilienthal was experimenting with...But Bernd Lukasch, the ... Read more
FLIGHT PROTOTYPES
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 12/17/2003; 65 words ; THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM PRINTED VERSION (PHOTO) The Lilienthal German engineer Otto Lilienthal studied aerodynamics and worked to design a glider that would fly. He was the first person to design a glider that could fly a... Read more
Wright Brothers.(Orville, Wilbur Wright invent flying-machine)
Magazine article from: Child Life; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...to other rash souls. To Otto Lilienthal in Pomerania, Germany...aghast at the sight of Lilienthal gliding through the air...needs is practice, said Lilienthal as he would thrust his...man, and, like Icarus, Lilienthal fell. The newsboy had left...Berlin, August 12. Herr Otto ... Read more
How I learned to fly
Magazine article from: Boys' Life; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...19thcentury German engineer Otto] Lilienthal's tables of figures with awe...the mass of figures compiled by Lilienthal. Then we proved up on them to...was like groping in the dark. Lilienthal's figures were not to be relied... Read more
Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/23/1994; 258 words ; ...Mesmer, physician, 1734; Giovanni Battista Viotti, violinist and composer, 1753; Sir Charles Barry, architect, 1795; Otto Lilienthal, pioneer aviator, 1848; Douglas Fairbanks (Douglas Elton Thomas Ulman), actor, 1883; Herbert Marshall, actor, 1890... Read more

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