What We Will See
masters and workers from whom I could expect the greatest commitment and quickest service.
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I started to build a new balloon and a new engine, this one a little stronger, that one a little bigger.
Three weeks, counted day by day, after the last disaster, my apparatus, No. 6, was ready.
The weather, however, was still bad. On October 19 (1901), in the afternoon, because the morning was rainy, I went up again, around the Tower, at a height of 250 meters, over a huge crowd that parked there waiting for me, and I passed by Autenil, over the hyppodrome of the same name, which was on my way.
There were races; my passage, both outward and return, aroused a delirium of applause; I heard the shouting and saw handkerchiefs and hats thrown in the air; I was only 50 to 100 meters from the ground...
From my departure to the moment I passed the zenith of the starting point, 29 minutes and 30 seconds elapsed.
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