Rostock Airport
Realistic Experience of Aviation History
Otto Lilienthal
With hot air balloons man was able to overcome gravity and take off from the ground. But "to fly like a bird" still remained for more than a 100 years an unattainable dream of mankind. It was not before 1891 that the inventor Otto Lilienthal succeeded in realizing the first documented flight of a human being through the development of a glider, “an aerial vehicle heavier than air.”
Otto Lilienthal was the first of several other daring pioneers from Mecklenburg-Western Pommerania whose visions and inventiveness made human flight history and are part of the new airport exhibition. On 15 big-sized panels and through many veridically reproduced exhibits, visitors are able to learn interesting details about the technical progress of the past 100 years. In cooperation with the technical museum from the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pommerania, a unique exhibition has been put up that may even encourage those people not interested in aviation to have a closer look into German aviation history.
Otto Lilienthal was the first of several other daring pioneers from Mecklenburg-Western Pommerania whose visions and inventiveness made human flight history and are part of the new airport exhibition. On 15 big-sized panels and through many veridically reproduced exhibits, visitors are able to learn interesting details about the technical progress of the past 100 years. In cooperation with the technical museum from the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pommerania, a unique exhibition has been put up that may even encourage those people not interested in aviation to have a closer look into German aviation history.
contact
Flughafenstraße 1
18299 Laage
phone: 01805 00 77 37
Flughafenstraße 1
18299 Laage
phone: 01805 00 77 37