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The navigation of the air, for me, is like the navigation of a river.
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The speaker compares moving through the air with navigating a river. In both cases, travel involves finding a way forward through a broad, continuous space. The comparison presents air navigation as something that can be understood through the familiar experience of following a river’s course.
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- The Century Magazine, “The Dirigible Balloon of M. Santos-Dumont” (1902)
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