Lilienthal Normalsegelapparat
The named Otto Lilienthal Normal Segelapparat flying machine is the first built and sold in production aircraft in history. Developed in 1893 with its flight trials in Berlin light field, the gliding apparatus from 1894 to 1896 by Maschinenfabrik Otto Lilienthal was offered for 500 marks. A sales ad from 1895 has survived. Quote: Sailing Apparatuses for practice of the art flight manufactures the machine factory of O. Lilienthal - Berlin S. Köpenickerstrasse 113
Today, nine buyers are known by name, including Nikolai Zhukovsky Jegorowitsch, William Randolph Hearst and Alois Wolf Müller. 1896 was planned by the U.S. aviation conveyor James Means the delivery of several glider with pilot training in Berlin, to which it obviously did not come after Lilienthal's fatal crash.
Specifications
- Wingspan: 6.7 m
- Weight: 20 kg
- Maximum flight distances (of Lilienthal reached): 250 m
Control by shifting your weight ( hang gliders ); Tailplane upward move; Wing for easy transport folding.
Aircraft received
Four normal sailing vessels are preserved to different degrees restored in museums:
- Munich: Deutsches Museum
- Washington, D.C.: National Air and Space Museum
- London: Science Museum
- Moscow Zhukovsky Museum
Just another aircraft Lilienthal is preserved: the so-called storm wings, a variant of the normal system ( Technisches Museum Wien ).