Famous airmen and their equipment [electronic resource] : with some notes on first-aid in emergencies (1912)
Burroughs Wellcome and Company · London : Burroughs Wellcome · leaf 25
hines which had beenconstructed up to the year 1889. In that year,however, Otto Lilienthal published a remarkable bookwhich gave a fresh stimulus to the subject of flight. Itwas an account of the experiments of himself and bisbrother with gliders. They had discovered that archedsurfaces driven… … Lilienthal sprang intothe air from a littletower. He faced thewind and regulated hiscentre of gravity byinstinctive movementsof the body and legs. His glides, of which he accomplished more than athousand, some being on biplanes, emphasised thehuman element in flight. He taught that theproblem was…
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