AIR HOGS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 119, 22 May 1930, Page 9

AIR HOGS

PLYING LOW OVER CITIES

(From "The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, 15tn May. , A spirited controversy in the Sydney Press just now suggests strongly that there aro quite a number of people who, if they were allowed to take the law their own hands, would like to empty a gun at airmen guilty of flying at low and what are regarded iis dangerous altitudes over the city, and of disturbing suburbia at unearthly hours in the morning very often with the drone of their engines. The late Governor, Sir. Dudley de Chair, mildly complained, just before his departure, about the peace of his Sunday at home being disturbed by the noise of 'pianos flying low ovor Government House. Most airmen play the game, and adopt the fundamental aviation law of safety first, especially over crowded cities, and if there are what might be termed air hogs it is not the fault of the Aero Club, which is just as much opposed to dangerous flying as is the public. In fact, the club has gone to tho extreme but distasteful step of expelling from its membership several airmen who have broken the golden rule of safe flyiug. Sydney hardly likes to think of the grim possibilities of a flyer landed unceremoniously in one of its crowded streets, or, getting iuto trouble at a low altitude over the harbour, crashed on to a ferry;,