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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