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Otto Lilienthal swoops over a small crowd as he demonstrates his set of wings. To get his early form of glider airborne, the German would race off high points and leap into the air. By 1893, he could reach up to 250 metres but only three years later, Lilienthal broke his neck when a flight went wrong and died.
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