!!!Kreß, Wilhelm

Kress, Wilhelm, b. St. Petersburg (Russia), July 29, 1836, 
d. Vienna, Feb. 24, 1913, flight pioneer, engineer. Settled in 
Vienna in 1873, where he was the first to fly a freely suspended 
kite-model (1877); attempted the first take-off with a powered plane 
from the Tullnerbach reservoir (1901), but failed because the engine 
was too heavy. 2 years later the Wright brothers in the USA succeeded 
in making the first powered flight. Around 1900 invented a joy stick 
for combination control.

!Publication
Die erste Entwicklung des Drachenfliegers in Wien, 1912.

!Literature
OeBL; NDB.


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