Original sentence: " None of these were successful in achieving sustained flight, so Vuia abandoned them.After his March 1906 takeoff, Vuia made several more powered hops or short flights later that year and in 1907.Another journal of the period, Flight, credited him with a hop of five meters on October 8, 1906, as the earliest entry in a list of his tests shown in a table of "the performances which have been made by the most prominent aviators of the last few years".None of these brief seconds of the aircraft being airborne qualify as sustained, controlled flight.The British aviation historian Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith described this aircraft as "the first man-carrying monoplane of basically modern configuration", yet "unsuccessful" because it was incapable of sustained flight.Vuia made his first flight or "powered hop" on March 18, 1906, in the presence of his mechanic and two close friends.Vuia performed the first known public demonstration of his airplane on October 8, 1906 when he made four-meter hop in front of two French officials
Edited sentence: After his March 1906 takeoff, Vuia made several more powered flights later that year and in 1907.Another journal of the period, Flight, credited him with a five meters flight on October 8, 1906, as the earliest entry in a list of his tests shown in a table of "the performances which have been made by the most prominent aviators of the last few years".The British aviation historian Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith described this aircraft as "the first man-carrying monoplane of basically modern configuration", this was the first flight in the world made by a modern configuration monoplane.Vuia made his first flight  on March 18, 1906, in the presence of his mechanic and two close friends.Vuia performed the first known public demonstration of his airplane on October 8, 1906 when he made four-meter flight in front of two French officials