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The flying device of the tailor of Ulm. Had he been successful it would have been mankinds first glider, decades before Otto Lilienthal.
But because of bad thermics his demonstration was a failure. Among the laughter of the bystanders he plunged into the Donau River and afterwards quit all attempts at making a flying device, being turned into a broke and broken man till his death.
Further research in the 20th century has shown that his device could have flown and that his failure really was only due to bad luck.
Edited: Removed some characters/words that were double or didn´t really fit in
Last edited by Proteus_MST; August 5, 2007, 03:06.
Tamsin (Lost Girl): "I am the Harbinger of Death. I arrive on winds of blessed air. Air that you no longer deserve." Tamsin (Lost Girl): "He has fallen in battle and I must take him to the Einherjar in Valhalla"
THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTF
Originally posted by BeBro
PROT didn't fly as well....
As well as what?
THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTF
briefly but my point is more why didn't it get off the ground commercially?
same with airships, a wonderful way to travel, did Hitler have something to do with it?
Before the Hindenberg, another Zepplin (the Graf Zeppelin, IIRC) logged 1,000,000 incident-free miles between Germany and Argentina.
The Hindenberg explosion, followed by the later crashes of the Macon and Acron, put the kabosh on airship travel. After the war, airplanes were far faster and far cheaper.
I think because there wasn't much alternative back then for sea travel. The sea liners became more and more pure tourist cruise ships later when air travel per plane was a better option.
Heh, while we're along the lines of failed 90s food and beverage products...
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