Aviation history
Otto Lilienthal: Measuring, Building and Gliding
Understand Otto Lilienthal’s flight tests: concentricity measurement, curved wings, stringing and weight control. With real photos, own 3D models and subtitles.
- Duration: 1:19:58
- Ton: German
- Subtitle: German
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About this video
Newly written technology and history film. Historical protection photo of the small wing apparatus and DLR images of modern replicas are explicitly separated. Independent models explain measurements, forces, materials, trim and source criticism; numbers are their own teaching examples, not flight or construction instructions. Studies from 2016, 2018/2019 and on the other double-decker type 2020 not mixed. Text with AI support, synthetic German narrative voice and German subtitles. Independent publication without recommendation by DLR, museums or NASA.
Source and Author
New film design, own text and graphics: pilot training1, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), insofar as intellectual property rights exist. Historical photo: Ottomar Anschütz (1846–1907), 1894, in the public domain after the term of protection expires; Source Otto-Lilienthal-Museum / Wikimedia Commons. Two concrete DLR photos from replicas in 2016: DLR, CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Images fully scaled, no new retouching or pruning. Individual image rights are preserved, sources and links are documented individually. No blanket CC0 claim.