Volume 35, Issue 2 No AccessFlight on the Horizon: The Pivotal Year of 1896F. E. C. CulickF. E. C. Culick California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:17 May 2012https://doi.org/10.2514/2.88SectionsRead Now ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload citationTrack citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail About Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsSee PDF for referencesCited byWind-Tunnel Testing of Otto Lilienthal’s Production Aircraft from 1893Felix Wienke, Markus Raffel and Andreas Dillmann14 December 2020 | AIAA Journal, Vol. 59, No. 4Flying Qualities of Otto Lilienthal’s Large BiplaneMarkus Raffel, Felix Wienke and Andreas Dillmann1 October 2020 | Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 58, No. 2On the Flying Qualities of Otto Lilienthal’s Large BiplaneMarkus Raffel, Andreas Dillmann and Felix Wienke4 January 2021 What's Popular Volume 35, Number 2February 1997 Crossmark TopicsAerodynamicsAeronautical EngineeringAeronauticsAircraft Operations and TechnologyAircraftsAircrewAviationAviation Authorities and OrganizationsAviation PioneersCivil AviationCommercial AviationFixed-Wing AircraftHistory of AviationWind Tunnels KeywordsAeronautical HistoryHang GlidersFerdinand FerberAerodynamic ForceWind TunnelsPilotMonoplanesTandem WingStructural DesignAviationPDF Published online17 May 2012