SEPTEMBER  1932

Volume 1 Number 6  (6 of 88)

 

This issue of Popular Flying magazine features the “Biggles” story

 

The Boob

 

Contents

This issue runs from page 313 to page 368 (56 pages)

 

Page 315 – Contents Page

 

Page 262 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns

(Subtitled Restrospection, Introspection, and Interception.  A note at the end says that “In view of Mrs. Bruce’s attempt to break the world’s endurance record, her regular editorial is omitted from this month’s issue)

 

Page 319 – Into the Blue – Arthur Cave

 

Page 322 – Where Stands the Zeppelin? – Capt. R. H. McIntosh and Hon. A. F. de Moleyns

 

Page 324 – My Most Thrilling Flight – Squadron-Leader B. J. W. Brady, DSM, RAF (Retired)

(This account was published in 1936 in the book ‘Thrilling Flights’ as the 7th of 20 accounts)

 

Page 326 – Aviation in the Colonies – British East Africa – Capt. C. E. Ward

 

Page 328 – England has Wakened Up

 

 

 

Page 330 – The Boob – A “Biggles” Story – William Earle

This Biggles story continues on page 331, 332 and 368

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 333 – Ride ‘em Cloudboy – The Facts and Fakes of Flying Films by Andrew R. Boone

 

Page 272 – British Flying Schools No. 6 Reading Aerodrome – The Phillips and Powis School of Flying

 

Page 338 - Knights of the Air – Captain Rene Paul Fonck

 

 

 

Pages 340 and 341 - The Centre Pages – an uncredited illustration – ‘Interception – And All That’

 

Page 343 – Bon Voyage!

 

Page 345 – Falcons of France – A Thrilling Serial of War in the Air – Charles Nordhoff and J. N. Hall

 

Page 351 – The Motoring Airman

 

Page 354 – Models – The Next Best Thing

 

Page 356 – Planes of History – The R. E. 8

 

Page 358 – Told on the Tarmac

 

Page 360 – Round the Schools and Clubs

 

Page 364 – The World’s Mail ‘Planes – Alec Davis & Air Post Stamps – Francis J. Field

 

Page 367 – The Buyers’ Log – Aircraft for Sale – Where to Fly – Opportunities

 

Inside the back cover there is a John Hamilton advert for 17 of their books including 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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