What I Saw
hundred and fifty francs and two rail tickets for the return journey.
— I want to fly tomorrow morning!
My turn had come...
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I was amazed by the panorama of Paris seen from a great height; in the surroundings, fields covered with snow... It was winter.
During the whole trip I followed the pilot's maneuvers; I understood perfectly the reason for everything he did.
It seemed to me that I was really born for aeronautics. Everything seemed very simple and easy to me; I didn't feel vertigo, nor fear.
And I had gone up...
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Back on the railroad, since we landed far, I conveyed to the pilot my desire to build myself a small balloon.
My answer was that the factory to which he belonged had just received samples of silk from Japan of great beauty and insignificant weight.
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