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 in the airplane a collaborator in the happiness of men.

I believe, it should be called "Heroic epoch of aeronautics" the period that comprises the end of the last century and the first years of the current one. In it shines the most audacious boldness of inventors, who almost forgot about life, for remembering their dream.

Today, the acts of bravery of the aviators of the "front" fill us with the most just enthusiasm, as will fill us with pride the news of the crossing of the Atlantic, which I foresee will be soon.

This courage, however, which consecrates them as heroes, I believe, is not greater than that of the inventors, the first human birds, who, after heroic pertinence in laboratory studies, dared to experiment with frail, primitive, dangerous machines. There were hundreds of victims of this noble audacity, who fought with a thousand difficulties, always received as "crazy", and who could not see the triumph of their Dreams, but for the realization of which they collaborated with their sacrifice, with their lives.