The maintenance of equilibrium in forward flight is a matte… - Otto Lilienthal

" "
The maintenance of equilibrium in forward flight is a matter of practice, and can only be learned by repeated personal experiment.

Otto Lilienthal

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

About Otto Lilienthal

Karl Wilhelm Otto Lilienthal (23 May 1848 – 10 August 1896), the German "Glider King," was a pioneer of human aviation.

Also Known As

Alternative Names: Karl Wilhelm Otto Lilienthal

All quotes from Otto Lilienthal Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Otto Lilienthal:

Wilbur Wright Ivan Kozhedub Henry H. Arnold Orville Wright Kate Broug

Additional quotes by Otto Lilienthal

The contrivances which are necessary to counteract the wind effects can only be understood by actual practice in the wind.

Experience alone can teach us the best forms of construction for sailing apparatus in order that they may be of sufficient strength, very light, and most easily managed.

The sailing flight of birds is the only form of flight which is carried on for some length of time without the expenditure of power.

The maintenance of equilibrium in forward flight is a matter of practice, and can only be learned by repeated personal experiment. - Otto Lilienthal

About Otto Lilienthal

Also Known As

Additional quotes by Otto Lilienthal