JULY 1932
Volume
1 Number 4 (4 of 88)
This issue of Popular Flying magazine features the “Biggles” story
The Balloonatics
Contents
This issue runs from page 193 to page 256 (64 pages)
Inside
the front cover there is an advert for Rolls-Royce aero engines
Page
197 – Contents Page
(At
the bottom of this page there is a note “The Editor begs to inform readers that
the characters in the story are purely imaginary and that no reference applies
to any living person”)
Page
200 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(This
includes a highly amusing account of Johns views on Amercian films about flying
in the First World War)
Page
202 – The Careless Loop – John Templer
Page
205 – Interceptor Versus Bomber – Major Oliver Stewart
Page
207 – Service Equipment
Page
208 – My Most Thrilling Flight – Flight-Lieut T. E. W. Browne
(This
account was published in 1936 in the book ‘Thrilling Flights’ as the 5th
of 20 accounts.
Stuck
onto Page 209 is a separate blue sheet of paper which is a subscription form
for the magazine).
Page
211 - Knights of the Air : Major Edward
(Micky) Mannock VC, DSO, MC
Page
212 – Aviation in the Dominions
Page
217 – Women and Air – Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce
Page
222 – Royal Air Force Units (showing stations, equipment and markings)
The
Centre Pages are unnumbered – facing Page 224 is Planes of History – The S.E. 5
– a Howard Leigh Illustration
And
the Centre Page Photo Spread is ‘Birds of a Feather ….!’ Painted by W.
E. Johns himself.
On Page 250 a small advert states that “a limited number of special
copies of the colour place which appears in the centre of this month’s issue
may be obtained from the publishers at the price of 1/9 per copy including
packing and postage”.
Page 225 – The Race for the King’s Cup
Page
226 – The King’s Cup : A Play by
William Shakespeare – Edited by I. H. Muntz
Pages
230 and 231 – British Flying Schools No. 4 Brooklands School of Flying
Page
232 – Told on the Tarmac
Page
232 – Round the Schools and Clubs
Page
235 – Entered for the King’s Cup
Page 240 – The Balloonatics: A “Biggles” Story – William Earle
This
Biggles story continues on pages 241, 248, 249 and 250.
The
illustrations are by Howard Leigh and this one is the first ever illustration
of “Biggles”.
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
243 – The Motoring Airman
Page
244 – Falcons of France – A Thrilling Serial of War in the Air – Charles
Nordhoff and J. N. Hall
Page
246 – Air Mail Stamps – T. S. Denham
Page
252 – The World’s Mail ‘Planes – The Fokker F.11 and F.111 – Alec Davies
Page
253 – Travel by Air – Captain Charles Ward
Page
253 – The Buyers’ Log – Aircraft for Sale – Where to Fly – Opportunities
Page
256 – Under the Wind Stocking – Readers’ Correspondence
(There
is a box at the foot of this page stating that “Popular Flying is published on
the 20th of every month”)
Inside
the back cover there is a John Hamilton advert for The Pictorial Flying Course
by H. M. Schofield and W. E. Johns and for back
issues of the first two issues of Popular Flying Magazine “price 8d per copy,
post free”.
Click here to see a much larger picture of
the cover artwork – the artist is Howard Leigh
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