Show I II 1 Fishing With Jf Airplanes 1 T THE JIB iii town of Gloucester Mass l has lias made a request of ot Secretary of or the Navy Daniels for the use uso of t forty naval airplanes to be used as lookouts for sighting I mackerel which abound in in- that locality During t the lie period of The war the these e flying boats bonts were devoted oled to tol l 1 quite julite another use Time The aviator 1 lookin looking down clown into the tho clear water could easily distinguish a submarine in iu tho the thoI depths of the ocean lIe He could signal a destroyer r. r The ilie t I destroyer could steam m to the scene an and drop a 1 depth I t I bowl bomb After the tumult had subsided e oil would spread on the surface o of the water in indicative that the time i rifle rine had hat been ii blown to pieces I I I Titus Thus was demonstrated the thc practical utility of these I airplanes for the peaceful pursuit of hunting fish Every year car forty fishing schooners start out from frum I Gloucester iu jut search of great schools of mackerel Heretofore Here here- 1 the time custom has bas been to station a lookout on the I foremast of each ench vessel hen the time lookout would sight a school of fish the schooners would close in spread I their nets and haul in the fish These lookouts who were stationed about thirty I I I feet above abu the level le of the water could spot fish only within a ra radius ius of a u mile or so An observer in an un airplane could scan an area ten times as large an and would save e the boats much macit of the time that is wasted cruising around If wo we wore are arc heat to our swords into plo sh plowshares why 11 not hot beat bill our war planes into fishing sm smacks and learn to go fishing 1 1 a I ril |