One of mankind’s oldest dreams came true on 10 August 1888:
Wölfert’s motorised airship successfully completed the world’s first
engine-driven flight with a combustion engine. The flying machine belonging to
the Leipzig-based bookseller Dr Friedrich Hermann Wölfert, powered by a
single-cylinder Daimler engine, flew four kilometres from the factory yard of
the Daimler Motor Company (Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft) at the Seelberg in
Cannstatt to Kornwestheim. Thus Gottlieb Daimler’s vision of motorising vehicles
on land, on water and in the air became reality.