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 With great anxiety, I quickly repaired the aircraft, made some small modifications and, for a few weeks, "rode" in Bagatelle in order to perfect myself in its difficult control.

Soon after, on October 23, before the Aero Club's Scientific Committee and a large crowd, I made the famous 250 meter flight, which fully confirmed the possibility of a man being able to fly.

This last experience and that of July 12, 1901, provided me with the two happiest moments of my entire life.

I think it is interesting to quote the opinion of some magazines about my flights, which are widely appreciated by them. I don't do it because I don't have them at hand, because I never worried in collecting articles that referred to me. Among all of them, however, I remember that "L'Aerophile", the most important and oldest of the Aeronautics magazines, considered them a historical event.

"L'Illustration" and "La Nature", whose issues I found here, consigned them this way: