Holzbausatz Lilienthal Gleiter

Simprop 0253308 wooden kit Lilienthal glider

The Lilienthal glider is a 1893 developed by Otto Lilienthal glider, which is controlled by weight shift. Lilienthal thus completed more than a thousand gliding flights, above all from the fly mountain in Lichterfelde near Berlin. The Lilienthal Glider is the first mass-produced and product-marketed aircraft in history. He was offered from 1894 to 1896 by Maschinenfabrik Otto Lilienthal for 500 marks. An advertisement from the year 1895 has been handed down.

Wooden construction kit of a glider of the famous Lilienthal-brothers Wingspan approx. 250mm laser-cut plywood parts high fitting accuracy due to precise toothing short construction time: approx.2,5 hours incl. Bracing foot for setting up the model german manual with pictures of the construction stagesThe brothers Gustav (1849 - 1933) and Otto Lilienthal (1848 - 1896) already dreamed as a pupil of the high school of their hometown Anklam of the flying humans after the model of the birds. They studied the bird flight intensively and carried out many flight experiments and experiments.
Otto Lilienthal worked intensively on the operation of different wing profiles, measured and documented these systematically and tested their different properties in a practical flight test. It is estimated that he has a total of over 2000 flights
has performed.
The model offered here is a replica of a biplane from the year 1895. It is the two-wing further development of the known Normalseglerapperate. The German Gliding Museum on the Wasserkuppe uses the Lilienthal Glider in its logo and you will find in this museum different versions of Lilienthal. A visit is worth it.