Today we remember "The Father of Flight" – Otto Lilienthal. Known as the "Glider King" he was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful gliding flights.


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Otto Lilienthal (May 23, 1848 – August 10, 1896) was a German pioneer of human aviation who became known as the Glider King. He was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful gliding flights. He followed an experimental approach established earlier by Sir George Cayley. Newspaper...