Career
On his flight, he had the company of three others: João Negrão (co-pilot), Newton Braga (navigator) and Vasco Cinquini (mechanic). The four aviators departed from Genoa, in Italy, to Santo Amaro (São Paulo), with stopovers in Spain, Gibraltar, Cabo Verde and Fernando de Noronha, in the Brazilian territory. De Barros was a student of Ateneu Jauense and completed secondary school at the Instituto de Ciências e Letras of São Paulo.
He was considered a good student.
He ingressed in Faculdade do Largo de São Francisco (United States Pharmacopoeia today). In 1919 he abandoned school and decided to study mechanical engineering in the United States. On February 21, 1923 he obtained the Number.88 international brevet of Aviator International League in France.
He then started his pilot career in France and obtained more training in air navigation and as a pilot in the United States, and air acrobatics in Germany. In 1926, he started a project: to realize a "raid", from Italy, on board a hydroplane, to Brazil, in an independent flight without the use of ships.