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    Karl Wilhelm Otto Lilienthal (23 May 1848 – 10 August 1896) was a German pioneer of aviation who became known as the "flying man". He was the first person...
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    Otto Lilienthal". "In perspective: Otto Lilienthal". "Remembering Germany's first "flying man"". The Economist. 20 September 2011. "Otto Lilienthal,...
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    pioneer of human aviation Otto Lilienthal, who, between 1867 and 1896, also studied heavier-than-air flight. Lilienthal's flight attempts in 1891 are...
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    in aviation technology came with the controlled gliding flying of Otto Lilienthal in 1896; then a large step in significance came with the construction...
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    learning the dynamics of heavier-than-air craft, most notably by Cayley, Otto Lilienthal, and Octave Chanute. By the early 20th century, advances in engine...
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    The Derwitzer glider was a glider that was developed by Otto Lilienthal, so named because it was tested near Derwitz [de; it] (nowadays part of Werder...
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    municipalities of Schönholz-Neuwerder and Stölln were merged. Aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal (1848–1896) crashed his glider here and died later. On October 23,...
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    Berlin Tegel "Otto Lilienthal" Airport (German: Flughafen Berlin-Tegel „Otto Lilienthal“) (IATA: TXL, ICAO: EDDT) was the primary international airport...
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    The Lilienthal Normalsegelapparat (German: "Normal soaring apparatus") is a glider designed by Otto Lilienthal in Germany in the late 19th century. It...
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  • Berlin, a German brand of watches Berlin Tegel Airport, also called Otto Lilienthal Airport Liliental, a 1978 music group featuring Asmus Tietchens, Conny...
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    von Otto Lilienthal. Technik - Dokumentation - Rekonstruktion. (The airplanes of Otto Lilienthal. Technique - Documentation - Reconstruction). Otto-Lilienthal-Museum...
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    World War II U-boat captain Otto Lietchen (1887–1977), American politician Otto Lilienthal (1848–1896), German aviator Otto Ludvig Beckman (1856–1909)...
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  • Gilli. The company name refers to the German aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal. The Lilienthal watches are inspired by the Bauhaus design. The company focuses...
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    achieving heavier-than-air flight, which was first demonstrated by Otto Lilienthal in 1891. Since then, the use of aerodynamics through mathematical analysis...
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    Otto Lilienthal Museum The Otto Lilienthal Museum in Anklam (Germany) is a museum dedicated to the "glider king" Otto Lilienthal, the flight pioneer, as...
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  • during which both a copy of one of Lilienthal's designs and a biplane built by Chanute are tested. 9 August – Otto Lilienthal crashes after a stall caused by...
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  • Max Lilienthal, Early Reform Rabbi Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer, brother of Gustav Peter Lilienthal, film director Philip H. Lilienthal, American...
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    magazine articles and probably photographs of the dramatic glides by Otto Lilienthal in Germany. 1896 brought three important aeronautical events. In May...
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  • failed to include the weight of the parachute in his calculations. Otto Lilienthal (1848–1896) died from injuries sustained in a crash of his hang glider...
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    flight near the end of the nineteenth century. After corresponding with Otto Lilienthal, Pilcher had considerable success with developing hang gliders. In...
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    flight. The first recorded controlled flights were by German engineer Otto Lilienthal, whose research, published in 1889, strongly influenced later designers...
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    in 1895 as an advanced stage of the Lilienthal Normalsegelapparat – a monoplane glider invented by Otto Lilienthal. The Normalsegelapparat was patented...
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    Mercer Publishing. "DPMA | Otto Lilienthal". Dpma.de. 2 December 2021. Retrieved 4 March 2022. "In perspective: Otto Lilienthal". Cobaltrecruitment.co.uk...
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    inventors, engineers and industrialists as Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Otto Lilienthal, Gottlieb Daimler, Rudolf Diesel, Hugo Junkers and Karl Benz helped...
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    as those developed in the United States by John Joseph Montgomery. Otto Lilienthal built controllable gliders in the 1890s, with which he could ridge...
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    Around 1894, Otto Lilienthal, an aviation pioneer, became famous in Germany for his widely publicized and successful glider flights. Lilienthal also studied...
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    Horatio Phillips made key contributions to aerodynamics. The German Otto Lilienthal and the American Octave Chanute worked independently on gliding flight...
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    ottomar-anschuetz.de. Retrieved 2020-04-19. Lukasch, Bernd. "Lilienthal and Photography". Otto Lilienthal Museum. Retrieved 2020-01-19. Wikimedia Commons has media...
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    Süd. Otto Lilienthal monument - the memorial plaque which is located in Schütte-Lanz-Straße 25, Berlin-Lichterfelde, was built in memory of Otto Lilienthal...
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    and flown a glider (aircraft) in the 1860s, predating the flights of Otto Lilienthal. There is a speculative "reconstruction" of Wnek's glider in the Ethnographic...
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