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Il est réellement le père de l'activité vol libre et nous devrions tous avoir une pensée pour lui avant chaque décollage, pour lui offrir le vol que nous allons faire ! Respect Monsieur Lilienthal.
04/02/2011
Sorry, this is not Otto himself.
I took the foto `78 at the first "Otto Lilienthal Memorial" at the Wasserkuppe.
Michael Platzer ( later designer of the "Kiebitz" Microlight] had built a Lilienthal Doppeldecker Replica, and flown in front of hundreds of spectators on the Wasserkuppe "Kleiner Westhang".
Amazing. Same L/D as the Dragonfly Clones those days, but, somehow limited control. ( Who ever survived the dragonflys, maybe knows better....)