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Otto Lilienthal
(23 May 1848 - 10 Aug 1896)
German aeronautical engineer and inventor , a pioneer whose studies formed a foundation for Octave Chanute and the Wright brothers.
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Science Quotes by Otto Lilienthal (2)
Opfer müssen gebracht werden!
Sacrifices must be made!
Remark made when near death after breaking his spine in an airplane crash in a glider of his design.
Sacrifices must be made!
Remark made when near death after breaking his spine in an airplane crash in a glider of his design.
— Otto Lilienthal
Quoted in Warren F. Phillips, Mechanics of Flight (2004), 371.
See also: | Epitaph (5)
To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
— Otto Lilienthal
Quoted in Mark Eppler The Wright Way (2003), 13.
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