Gallery
Lilienthal was regularly joined by photographers at his request. Most of them are well known, like Ottomar Anschütz. Lilienthal was also constantly taking his own photographs of his flying machines after 1891. There are at least 137 known photographs documenting his test flights, some of excellent quality. All of them are available online at Otto Lilienthal Museum website. The only negatives, preserved in the Deutsches Museum in Munich, were destroyed during World War II.
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Flight atttempt of Lilienthal on the Derwitzer Glider,
Derwitz, 1891 -
Lilienthal preparing for a Small Ornithopter flight,
16 August 1894 -
Vorflügelapparat,
29 May 1895 -
Normal soaring apparatus with the enlarged tail,
29 June 1895
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