What I Saw
transatlantic air, as the delivery of airplanes from the United States to our Allies.
The Aero Club of America, which has advocated the development of Aeronautics since your first trials, activated and assisted by every means the creation of the air postal service since 1911, feels highly rewarded by the establishment of this new service through the air.
This letter came to fill with legitimate joy my heart that, for four years now, has suffered with the news of the terrible death caused in Europe by aeronautics. We, the founders of air travel at the end of the last century, had dreamed a future path of peaceful glory for this child of our care. I remember perfectly that at the end of that century and in the first years of this one, in the Aero Club of France, which was, one could say, "The nest of aeronautics" and which was the meeting place for all the inventors who were concerned with this science, little was said about war; we predicted that aeronauts could perhaps, in the future, serve as enlighteners for the major states
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