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 square kilometer. Soon after my flight of 250 meters, I saw that this camp was too small, so I went to Issy-les-Moulinaux, — more than a kilometer square, — but surrounded by houses; I saw the defects. I then went to St. Cyr, a military camp of only a few square kilometers, but adjacent to large plains.

You can see, therefore, that I give immense importance to an Aviation Field; success in training aviators depends on it: I am sorry that the Aero Club, of which I have the honor to be Honorary President, has not followed my advice to abandon, many years ago, the Afonsos Field; I am sorry that it has not made use of the hangar I built at Praia Vermelha Beach, next to the most beautiful of aerodromes — Guanabara Bay.

I know that the Aero Club is now going to abandon the Afonsos.

It is time, perhaps, to set up a real school in a suitable field. It is not