FLYING POLICE PATROL.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16411, 3 January 1919, Page 5

FLYING POLICE PATROL.

HOW SMUGGLING BY AIR "WILL BE CHECKED. Strange problems of aerial development face the Conference of the Allied Governments, who are now looking into the many .possibilities which may arise after the war. Mr O. G. Grey, editor of the Aeroplane," told a London pressman recently that in his opinion, as soon as peace came tie first development would be in \ the nature of semi-official aeroplanes to be used for postal services, and this would be more or less organised under the auspices of the present Air MinistrjCpart from that first Big commercial use of planes, ho believed that there would be a great deal of what could be described as "sporting" flying. Many Young men now in the Air Force were wealthy enough to fulfil the desire to possess an aeroplane of their .own, and tie Government might be disposed to sell, to approved persons, some of the aircraft noW being used for hostile purnJ>on this first peace devel-

opment of the aeroplane, lie looked for big firms to adopt aerial goods delivery both as a means of speed and an advertisement to such distances as Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Ihiblin. One difficulty that would have to be jfacod was the chance that people would try to smuggle goods from France by aeroplane. Air patrols would have to watch the chance of this, and "take the number" of any suspicious highflying plane, and report, so that when it landed its bona fides could be inquired into. As to flying over prohibited areas, much the same position would pertain, and "the number would bo taken'' by aerial police, and an explanation askocl for, and possibly proper punishment inflicted for infringements. Mr Grey also looks for women largely to take up flying after the war.