MUSTERING BY AEROPLANE.

Taihape Daily Times, 4 July 1918, Page 6

MUSTERING BY AEROPLANE.

A FUTURE POSSIBILITY. A Montana sheep-owner, who already uses two 90 horse-power aeroplanes on his ranch is investing in an. other machine to search for stray animals in the high mountain pastures. This is certainly one way of making the aeroplane earn its living after the war. Enterprising settlers in Australia —particularly if they are discharged soldiers and, therefore, accustomed to witness the daily work of aeroplanes at the front —will doubtless not be content until they each have a machine or two of their own, thus enabling them to survey the whole of their property in a short time, and more effectively than could be done in the old way. It occurs to us, says the "Car," also that the aeroplane, if the supply of motor fuel can be assured, is destined to be a wonderful help to the explorer of unknown lands. Much of South America, for example, awaits discovery, and, although the up-to-date explorer may not see from the sky the Golden City which so many have sought in the past, he will be able to map out and photograph the country and bring back all kinds of useful information, geographical and otherwise.

Maybe—while we are in the imaginative mood —the North Pole may be reached by aeroplane. It is not a longjourney to the pole, taking a starting point within the Arctic Circle, and it is quite possible that a machine specially equipped for the journey could dG it in favourable weather.

Hydroplanes are to be used for the first time to guide Arctic ships through the ice fields of the Arctic regions when the annual expedition of the Siberian Steamship Manufacturing and Trading Company leaves New York in July for the company's trading post on the Obi and Yenisei Eivers. In many unexpected ways the aeroplane will be found to be invaluable after the war, when people have time to think about it 'as something that may be used apart from-war, some- j thing that will be useful in its present form without reckoning upon the Improvements that science-may give us eventually. ■ \> -■>#,