Otto Lilienthal Quotes About Flight

• No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once.

  Otto Lilienthal

  Air, Flying, Inspire

• We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.

  Otto Lilienthal

  Home, Bird, Sailing

• One can get a proper insight into the practice of flying only by actual flying experiments. . . . The manner in which we have to meet the irregularities of the wind, when soaring in the air, can only be learnt by being in the air itself. . . . The only way which leads us to a quick development in human flight is a systematic and energetic practice in actual flying experiments.

  Otto Lilienthal

  Air, Wind, Practice

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

  Otto Lilienthal

  Air, Overcoming, Energy

  "Der Vogelflug als Grundlage der Fliegekunst". Book by Otto Lilienthal; English edition: Birdflight As The Basis of Aviation (1911), 1889.

• Artificial flight may be defined as that form of aviation in which a man flies at will in any direction by means of an apparatus attached to his body, the use of which requires personal skill. Artificial flight by a single individual is the proper beginning for all species of artificial flight, as the necessary conditions can most easily be fulfilled when man flies individually.

  Otto Lilienthal

  Mean, Men, Skills

  "The Romance of Aeronautics". Book by Charles Cyril Turner, Ch. VII Lilienthal and Pilcher, 1912.

• Particular honour belongs to those who believed in the possibility of mechanical flight when all the world was against them; not the visionaries because they hoped for it merely, but those who by sheer force of intellect perceived the means by which it could be accomplished and directed their experiments along the right path. ... The name of Lilienthal is now among the most honoured, but curiously his own countrymen were the last to recognize the value of his work.

  Otto Lilienthal

  Mean, Names, Visionaries

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