Otto Lilienthal's first film

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1. Hang glider pilots

Know who this guy is!

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2. The Wright brothers knew who he was, too:

"No one equaled him in power to draw new recruits to the cause; no one equaled him in fullness and dearness of understanding of the principles of flight; no one did so much to convince the world of the advantages of curved wing surfaces; and no one did so much to transfer the problem of human flight to the open air where it belonged.

As a missionary he was wonderful. He presented the cause of human flight to his readers so earnestly, so attractively, and so convincingly that it was difficult for anyone to resist the temptation to make an attempt at it himself, … he was without question the greatest of the precursors, and the world owes to him a great debt."

With these words in 1912, Wilbur Wright described the man who was the most important influence on practical flying and flight theory before the Wright brothers: the German engineer, Otto Lilienthal.

http://www.lilienthal-museum.de/olma/ewright.htm

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3. Cool! I guess you could say he invented the hang glider.