Aviation and the Police
| Date | 01 July 1935 |
| Author | R. H. Thornton |
| Published date | 01 July 1935 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X3500800309 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
Aviation and the Police
THE
LIVERPOOL POLICE COURSE
By MAJOR R. H.
THORNTON,
M.e.
Chairman of
the
Liverpool Aero
Club
A
VIATION
has not only come to stay,
but
it is certainly
going to introduce problems peculiarly its own into our
already overcrowded lives.
There
are, up and down the
country, light aeroplane clubs, recognized by the Air Ministry
as establishments for training amateur pilots, and, as a point
of national policy, a number of clubs are in receipt of a subsidy
designed to keep the cost of such training at a reasonable
figure. Apart from teaching people to fly, the duty of these
subsidized clubs is, or should be, to take the lead in every-
thing which appertains to the development on sound lines of
this new era of civil aviation, and to assist it to take its proper
place in the daily life of our world.
Much the same effort was called for on the introduction
of the motor-car. Although the original motor-cars travelled
little faster and far less reliably than a chaise or a phaeton
drawn by a spirited cob, there were, none the less, many
(and a large number of magistrates among them I), who
regarded them as the invention of the devil. How much
more acute is the problem when a new vehicle is invented
which does not merely rival older methods of transport,
but
moves in a new element entirely its
own!
And it is an
element in which we are all interested, whether we like it or
not. After all, you might
put
to sea in
the
queerest of new
craft and
it
would be of little concern to anyone
but
yourself.
But when " putting to
sea"
means cruising about in the very
air that hangs above us all, it is quite another matter.
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