Here's a music video to a song of German singer/songwriter Reinhard Mey, that shows in a short sequence the first succesful use of handcrafted "human" wings" by Otto Lilienthal in 1891.
This is posted for the pictures - not really my taste of music. But as the Romans said already: there's no accounting for taste.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn4xf_P-l60&feature=related
The opening book titel reads: "The bird's flight - as a basis for the art of flying"
The final words in the video (translated as good as I can):
Otto Lilienthal was born May 23rd, 1884 in Anklam.
He is regarded today as being the first successfull aviator of our mankind.
On the 9th of August 1896, he crashed fatally with his flight apparatus, fell in a coma on the way home, and died on 10th of August, 1896 in Berlin.
Enjoy. Olham
This is posted for the pictures - not really my taste of music. But as the Romans said already: there's no accounting for taste.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn4xf_P-l60&feature=related
The opening book titel reads: "The bird's flight - as a basis for the art of flying"
The final words in the video (translated as good as I can):
Otto Lilienthal was born May 23rd, 1884 in Anklam.
He is regarded today as being the first successfull aviator of our mankind.
On the 9th of August 1896, he crashed fatally with his flight apparatus, fell in a coma on the way home, and died on 10th of August, 1896 in Berlin.
Enjoy. Olham