What We Will See
vy will transport his School to Governor Island.
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First we will deal with the Afonsos Field. Two years ago the Army, I believe, recognizing the little practicability of this field, abandoned it........ The Aero Club installed its Aviation Field there. Invited by the board of this club, years ago, to visit and give my opinion about the field, I said I found it more than bad: I found it terrible. I advised them to look for a large plain, or better yet, that the Club should be concerned first with nautical aviation, since nature has given us a unique nautical airfield in the world. The Aero Club did not follow my advices.
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I am very sad to read that the Government is going to take possession of that land again to install the central aeronautical field there!!! The French were lucky to find good fields near Paris, but the advantages of an optimal field are so great that they went to install their new fields almost at the end of France, in Pau, where
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