The Flying Man: Otto Lilienthal--History, Flights and Photographs

The beginning of an era.- The skies over Pomerania.- From a poor student to good scholar.- Bed lodger - engineer - manufacturer.- Life goal: inventor.- From the dream of flight to aerodynamics.- From theory to flying apparatus.- 1891 - the leap into a new century.- Captured in mid-air.- Modelled after a bat - the path to serially produced aircraft.- Practical flying - training and records.- An engine - again inspired by birds.- The Fliegeberg - a real airfield.- Flying machine customers and flight students.- More difficult than anticipated: steering.- A rich idea: the biplane.- Unfinished ideas and August 9, 1896.- To fly is everything - Lilienthal 125 years later.