World’s First Aircraft - Lilienthal’s Glider Flight

Starting in 1891 Otto Lilienthal made the first well-documented, successful flights on a heavier-than-air aircraft under the control of a human being. In 1893 he patented the world’s first production aircraft, the ‘Normalsegelapparat’, a monoplane glider that he sold at least nine times to various places in Europe and America. He made more than 2000 successful flights and his aerodynamic data and flight reports were circulated around the world. Others enthusiastically took his design, learned from it and