Otto Lilienthal Quotes & Sayings

Top 5 Otto Lilienthal Quotes

#1. All flight is based upon producing air pressure, all flight energy consists in overcoming air pressure.

#2. To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.

#3. Small sacrifices must be made.

#4. No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once.

#5. We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.