Experience alone can teach us the best forms of constructio… - Otto Lilienthal

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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.

Otto Lilienthal

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

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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.

All flight is based upon producing air pressure, all flight energy consists in overcoming air pressure.

The increasing size of the apparatus makes the construction more difficult in securing lightness in the machine; therefore the building of small apparatus is to be recommended.

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 … - Otto Lilienthal

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