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 Were it not for the audacity, worthy of all our homages, of Captain Ferber, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Baron Bradsky, Augusto Severo, Sachet, Charles, Morin, Delagrange, the Nieuport brothers, Chavez and so many others — true martyrs of science — and today we would not, perhaps, witness this wonderful progress of Aeronautics, achieved, all at the cost of those lives, whose sacrifice always left a lesson.

I think, most of my readers will be young people born after that time, which is already overshadowing so much in memory: I implore you, therefore, not to forget these names. To them belongs, in large part, the merit of what is done in the air today...

At first one had to fight not only against the elements, but also against prejudice: balloon steering and, later, mechanical flight were "insoluble" problems.

I, too, had the honor of working for a while alongside these brave, but