NOVEMBER
1932
Volume
1 Number 8 (8 of 88)
This issue of Popular Flying magazine was the first to NOT features a “Biggles” story
Biggles next
features in the January 1933 issue
Contents
This issue runs from page 425 to page 480 (56 pages)
Page
426 – Contents Page
Page
429 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(Subtitled
– Aviation Bogies and Bunkum – a box at the end informs readers that next issue
with be a Special Christmas Double Number “if you think you are going to get
all this for 6d – well, it’s just too bad.
The Xmas number will cost you 1/- and you will agree that it is the best
aviation shillingsworth ever offered.
Don’t blame me if you can’t get a copy”)
Page
431 – A Flying Start – A Complete Story – William Earle
(This
is a “non-Biggles” story by W. E. Johns
using his usual Popular Flying alias.
The
artist who did the illustrations for the story is uncredited).
Page 434 – Airports of the Future – John Dower
Page 436 – How Record Flights are Planned – Ivor McLure
Page 434Page
437 – My Most Thrilling Flight – A. G. D. Alderson
(This
account was published in 1936 in the book ‘Thrilling Flights’ as the 9th
of 20 accounts)
Page
439 – Kidbrooke – The Temple of Truth – L. G. Callingham
(This
article is about No. 1 Stores Depot, Kidbrooke, which “is the great Royal Air
Force Station near London, where all equipment is tested before it is passed
for Service”)
Page
442 – The Monkey-Face Brothers – A Long Complete Story – Wilfred Tremellen
Page
445 – Planes of History – The Nieuport XXIII Scout
Page
446 – Hello! New York
Page
447 – Ticket to Shanklin!
Page
448 – When Knights Were Bold!
Page
451 - Knights of the Air – Lieutenant Thieffry and the Belgian Aces
(In
the centre of this page is a poem called “The Guardian Angel” by A. R.
Leathley)
Pages
452 and 453 - The Centre Pages – an illustration by F. L. Westley – “The Grand
Parade”
Page
455 – Falcons of France – A Thrilling Serial of War in the Air – Charles
Nordhoff and J. N. Hall
Page
457 – A full page advert for the Christmas edition of POPULAR FLYING
Page
460 – Motor Mutterings – “Janus”
Page
464 – Build your own Model Airport – H. B. Pratt
Page 465 – Skybirds Open Competition
(This
advert contains the first reference I have found in Popular Flying to “Capt.”
W. E. Johns.
Together with
Sir
Alan Cobham, they are to be the Judges in this realistic model aircraft and
model surroundings competition)
Page
466 – Way Down East!
Page
468 – Did You Know? – A Collection of Interesting Aeronautical Facts
Page
470 – Told on the Tarmac
Page
472 – Round the Schools and Clubs
Page
476 – The Aviation Bookshelf
(One
of the books reviewed here is “The Camels are Coming”
by W. E. Johns – the first “Biggles”
book.
I
wonder if this explains the absence of Biggles for a three month period in the
magazine? Readers missing Biggles
stories would hopefully buy the book.
If you were getting the stories for “free” in the magazine, then why buy
the book?)
Page
478 – Air Post Stamps – New Catalogues and Prices – Francis J. Field
Page 480 – The Buyers’ Log
(Now
reduced to only half a page)
Inside
the back cover there is the usual John Hamilton advert – this time for 15 of
their books with a special section on “Books by W. E. Johns” – advertised here
are Wings: Flying Adventures, Fighting Planes and Aces, The Pictorial Flying
Course and for the first time “The Camels are Coming by W. E. Johns
(William Earle)” for 7 shillings and 6d plus 6d postage. Again
the advert states that back issues of the first two issues of Popular Flying
Magazine are available “price 8d per copy, post free” but even though this is
the 8th issue it is still only the first two referred to as being
available.
Click here to see a much larger picture of
the cover artwork – the artist is uncredited
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