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What We Will See


Let's hope that air travel will bring permanent union and friendship between the Americas.

Here I have just exposed, in summary, what I said at my Washington conference, and I have no reason to disown it. On the contrary, more and more, I believe that the future of air navigation is greater and closer. The special magazines I receive constantly talk about the problem of the Atlantic crossing. We can therefore say that the idea is in the "Air"; it is therefore perhaps a matter of months and, then, we will know that an airplane departing from the New World went to the Old in perhaps one day! We will also know that 3 or 4 daring pilots of this machine suffered a lot from the cold, rain, etc., but, dear reader, let's have a little patience; soon there will be transatlantic airplanes with sleeping rooms, lounge and also, very importantly, automatically guided by gyroscopes and driven by several engines with a large surplus of power, so that in case of failure in one of them, the others are powerful enough to keep the aircraft flying.


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