My dear Mr. Santos-Dumont
The Aero Club of America sends you a message of congratulations for the inauguration of the first Postal Air Service in this country. We trust that the Postal Air Line inaugurated between New York, Philadelphia and Washington, which brings you this message, will be the first step towards a network of overhead lines that will cover the world and will be a predominant factor in the work of reconstruction that will follow the War, when the allied armies have achieved the Glorious and final Victory in the cause of Universal Freedom.
The rapid development of air navigation on the continent will be followed soon by extensive flights over the seas, and we will have large airplanes crossing the Atlantic, which will facilitate not only the establishment of the postal line
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