OCTOBER
1932
Volume
1 Number 7 (7 of 88)
This issue of Popular Flying magazine features the “Biggles” story
A Battle of Flowers
Contents
This issue runs from page 369 to page 424 (56 pages)
Page
370 – Contents Page
(The
contents page has now move to a page on the left rather than a page on the
right)
Page
373 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(Subtitled
– Wanted – A Cheap Light Plane)
Page
375 – Control Tower Calling – Arthur Cave
Page 378 – Aircraft Noise – E. N. B. Bentley
Page
380 – My Most Thrilling Flight – Major Charles G. Barker
(This
account was published in 1936 in the book ‘Thrilling Flights’ as the 8th
of 20 accounts)
Page
383 – Planes of History – The Bristol Fighter
Page
384 – Darkest Africa Filmed from the Air – with Cobham to Lake Kivu
(Page
385 features a photograph of two bare breasted African ladies - surprising in a
1930’s publication)
Page 386 – A Battle of Flowers – A “Biggles” Story – William Earle
This
Biggles story continues on page 387 and 410
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” with a slight name change – it became “THE Battle of Flowers”
rather than “A Battle of Flowers”.
Page
388 – The Empire Learns to Fly – Aviation in Australia – Capt. C. E. Ward
Page
390 –With Spurs On – A Short Story – Oliver Way
Page
392 – This Months News in Pictures
Page
394 - Knights of the Air – Major Francesco Baracca
Pages
396 and 397 - The Centre Pages – an illustration by Howard Leigh – ‘Trapped’
Page
399 – Falcons of France – A Thrilling Serial of War in the Air – Charles
Nordhoff and J. N. Hall
Page
404 – Ticket to Clacton!
Page
406 – Collecting Flown Covers – A Profitable Hobby – T. S. Denham
Page
408 – Did You Know? – A Collection of Interesting Aeronautical Facts
Page
412 – A School Model Aeroplane Club – F. W. Stuckey
Page
415 – Told on the Tarmac
Page
416 – Motor Mutterings – “Janus”
Page
419 – A full page advert for MG cars
Page
420 – Round the Schools and Clubs
Page
423 – The Buyers’ Log – Aircraft for Sale – Where to Fly – Opportunities
Page
424 – The Aviation Bookshelf – New Books for the Air Library
(This
new feature reviewed five books. At the
end of the page was a three-panel cartoon)
Inside
the back cover there is a John Hamilton advert for 11 of their books including
Wings: Flying Adventures and Fighting Planes and Aces, respectively edited and
written by Flying Officer (as he is credited) W. E. Johns. Also included is The Pictorial Flying Course
by H. M. Schofield and W. E. Johns and again
states that back issues of the first two issues of Popular Flying Magazine are
available “price 8d per copy, post free”.
Click here to see a much larger picture of
the cover artwork – the artist is uncredited
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