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Otto Lilienthal Museum

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Otto Lilienthal Museum
Otto Lilienthal Museum
Otto Lilienthal Museum
Otto Lilienthal Museum
Otto Lilienthal Museum
Otto Lilienthal Museum
Otto Lilienthal Museum
Otto Lilienthal Museum
Otto Lilienthal Museum
Otto Lilienthal Museum
Otto Lilienthal Museum
Otto Lilienthal Museum
Otto Lilienthal Museum
Otto Lilienthal Museum
Otto Lilienthal Museum
Otto Lilienthal Museum
Otto Lilienthal Museum
Otto Lilienthal Museum
Otto Lilienthal Museum
Otto Lilienthal Museum
Otto Lilienthal Museum
Otto Lilienthal Museum
Otto Lilienthal Museum
Otto Lilienthal Museum
Otto Lilienthal Museum
Phone:
+49 3971 245500

Hours:
Sunday1pm - 3:30pm
MondayClosed
TuesdayClosed
Wednesday11am - 3:30pm
Thursday11am - 3:30pm
Friday11am - 3:30pm
SaturdayClosed


Otto Lilienthal was a German pioneer of aviation who became known as the flying man. He was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful flights with gliders. Newspapers and magazines published photographs of Lilienthal gliding, favorably influencing public and scientific opinion about the possibility of flying machines becoming practical. On 9 August 1896, his glider stalled and he was unable to regain control. Falling from about 15 m , he broke his neck and died the next day, 10 August 1896.
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