From the Beginning to the End of World War Two Concept and Configuration

The age of flflying with objects heavier than air starts in Germany with Otto Lilienthal (1848–1896). After numerous theoretical studies [1] and practical experiments, he was able to glide in the summer of 1891, for the very first time, a distance of 30 m with his flight apparatus at moderate wind speeds. Other nations consider the beginning of aircraft engineering coincident with the first powered flight of the Wright Brothers. There are many “firsts” in flight technology, depending on which “first” we want to honor. Before Lilienthal there were many trials with small unmanned flight models of different kinds and, of course, experiments with large-scale models andpeople as payload or pilots, respectivelyy, but none of them reached the goal they had hoped for. The overall designation was, at that time, “Airshüp Aviation” and was divided into Aeronautics (Balloon technology) and Aviation (Flight technology).