"To design a flying machine is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything."
— Otto Lilienthal

January 1, 1970

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Widely attributed to Lilienthal, this was actually an 1898 statement by Ferdinand Ferber dedicated to Lilienthal, published in L'Aviation; ses debuts son developpement [Aviation, its debut and devopment] (1908), translated into German as Die Kunst zu Fliegen [The Art of Flight] (1910)