MAY 1932
Volume
1 Number 2 (2 of 88)
This issue of Popular Flying magazine features the Biggles story
The Packet
Contents
This issue runs from page 65 to page 128 (64 pages)
Inside
the front cover there is an advert for John Hamilton books including The
Pictorial Flying Course
Page
67 Contents Page
Page
69 The Editors Cockpit W. E. Johns
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73 The Gold Express John Templer
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76 Founding a Flying Club R. Dallas Brett
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78 My Most Thrilling Flight Captain C. D. Barnard
(This
account was published in 1936 in the book Thrilling Flights as the 3rd
of 20 accounts)
Page
80 The Skyway becomes the Highway Captain Charles Ward
Page 82 The Packet William Earle
This
Biggles story continues on pages 83, 84 and 123. The illustrations are by Howard Leigh.
William
Earle was, of course, a pseudonym for W. E. Johns, his first names being
William Earl (without the e)
In
August 1932 this story was published in the first Biggles book The Camels
are Coming
Page
85 Signposts for Airmen Captain Max Findlay
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87 Women and Air The Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce
Pages
90 - 91 Cairo to Cape Town Photographs of Beauty Spots on the Imperial Air
Route
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94 Iraq The Land of Departed Greatness W. E. Johns
Pages
95 96 Centre Page Photo Spread British Flying Schools No. 2 The De
Havilland School of Flying
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98 Planes of History The Sopwith Camel Scout
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99 The Fascination of Demonstration Joy Muntz
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102 Blind Flying And Some Conclusions - Flight-Lieut. H. F. Jenkins
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106 Told on the Tarmac Officer of the Watch
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110 Round the Clubs
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116 Falcons of France A Serial Charles Nordhoff and J. N. Hall
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119 Scale Models Geoffrey Holland
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120 Air Stamp and Flown Covers Francis J. Field
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124 Flying as a Tonic Dr. W. R. T. Chapman
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128 Under the Wind Stocking Readers Correspondence
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