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The supporting powers of time air and of the wind depend on the shape of the surfaces used, and the best forms can only be evolved by free flight through the air.

— Otto Lilienthal The Romance of Aeronautics (1912)

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All flight is based upon producing air pressure, all flight energy consists in overcoming air pressure.

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Actual practice in individual flight presents the best prospects for developing our capacity until it leads to perfected free flight.

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Gradual development of flight should begin with the simplest apparatus and movements, and without time complication of dynamic means.

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The sailing flight of birds is the only form of flight which is carried on for some length of time without the expenditure of power.

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Numerous technicians in every state are doing their utmost to achieve the dream of free, unlimited flight and it is precisely here where changes can be made which would have a radical effect on our whole way of life.

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