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"Wings Collapse While Practising at Brussels and He Tumbles Two Hundred Feet. Lilienthal's Models Were Birds. His Machine Had an Engine Run by Carbonic Acid Gas and it Smashed Things on Its Very First Trial.
Versuche in Brüssel sind nicht bekannt. Sonst jedoch genaue und umfangreiche Darstellung. "a native of Anklam, a quaint, ancient little city near the Baltic coast (malerische, alte, kleine Stadt), [...] washed with collodion [...] against a moderate breeze at an angle of not more than 6 degrees to the horizon."; erforderliche Motorleistung: 1,25 PS, liquid carbolic acid: "five years ago was a mere chemical curiosity, is now a commercial article selling for eight cents a pound. [...]It was of two-hours power, and its supply of acid was sufficient to work the wings by a simple system of gearing for two hours. The total weight of the added machinery was thenty-five pounds. [...] Mr Lilienthal was once asked if there is not great danger of falling in his flights. He said the parts of the machine would act in any event as a parachute and make his descent gradual. The tenor of the despach leaves one to surmise that his expectations in that respect were not fully realized."; erwähnt Zeitgenossen: Langley, Maxim, Leonardo