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 From there I went to Argentina, where again I found a great enthusiasm for aeronautics and also a great result obtained; there, however, aviation is greatly facilitated by the country's topography. I don't know how many pilots there are there, but it is the most common thing to find young men of high society who have a pilot's license.

I must here pay a compliment to our friends in La Plata who, being able to easily find a good site for an airfield, 10 minutes from Buenos Aires, have chosen it a few hours away from the city, to have it optimal, forcing the officers and disciples to live and stand there at sunrise, which is class time!

There I also saw a course for observing officers!

There was, between Argentine and Chilean aeronauts, a sporting rivalry, in which they strove to see who would cross the Andes first. It was a difficult race, from whose realization many honors would come to the South American Aeronautics.