Nick Palmer wrote:
"/Of all the men who attacked the flying problem in the 19th century, Otto Lilienthal was easily the most important. ... It is true that attempts at gliding had been made hundreds of years before him, and that in the nineteenth century, Cayley, Spencer, Wenham, Mouillard, and many othcrs were reported to have made feeble attempts to glide, but their failures were so complete that nothing of value resulted./" Wilbur Wright <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Wright> ^[2] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lilienthal#_note-1>
I have been told that of all the researchers who attempted to develop flight, the Wrights alone built a wind tunnel. While more expensive, in the short run than jumping off a high cliff, the results speak volumes.
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