DECEMBER
1932
Volume
1 Number 9 (9 of 88)
This
was a special enlarged issue for Christmas costing 1 shilling rather than the
usual price of 6d (remembering that there were 12 pence
to
the shilling in pre-decimal currency and 6 pence was expressed as “6d”. This issue was therefore twice the normal
price).
This issue of Popular Flying magazine does NOT features a “Biggles” story
Biggles next
features in the January 1933 issue
Contents
This issue runs from page 481 to page 556 but it also features four
supplementary pages of advertising
numbered i and ii before page 481 and numbered iii and iv after
page 556 making a total of 80 pages.
The first four issues of Popular Flying had had 64 pages and the
next four had dropped to 56 pages.
Although twice the cost, this special issue was not twice the page
count.
On
preliminary page ii there is the usual John Hamilton advert – this time for 16
of their books and this time – for the first time – Johns is referred to as “Capt.
W. E. Johns” as the author of ‘Fighting Planes and Aces’,
‘The Pictorial Flying Course’ and ‘The Camels are Coming’. ‘Wings: Flying Adventures’ is referred to as
edited by W. E. Johns.
Now
there is no mention of back issues of Popular Flying Magazine
Page
482 – Contents Page
Page
485 – The Vision B.C. 54 – A.D. 1918
Page
429 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(Subtitled
– Christmas Number in which Johns relates some semi-supernatual aviation tales.
A
box at the end informs readers about flying Christmas cards that are available)
Page 488 – The Intruder – Craven Hill
Page 491 – Modern Days – Modern Ways (a full page cartoon)
Page 492 – Planes of History – The Spad
Page 493 – A Sub-Arctic Holiday – Geoffrey d’Egville
Page
496 - Knights of the Air – The Leading War Aces of all Countries
Page 497 – Richthofen’s Last Flight – The Story of the Death of Germany’s Greatest Ace – W. E. Johns
Pages 500 and 501 – A double page illustration by Frank L. Westley – ‘Christmas Day on the High Seas’
Page
502 – Mainwaring gets Through – Arthur Cave
Page 434Page
505 – My Most Thrilling Flight – Lieut. W. J. Tremellen
(This
account was published in 1936 in the book ‘Thrilling Flights’ as the 10th
of 20 accounts)
Page
508 – Dumb Stunts – Suggested Flights for 1933 – by “G.G.”
(Two
pages of cartoons)
Page
510 – Croydon Calling! – A Peep Behind the Scenes at the Air Port of London
Page
512 – Do You Remember? - Some of the
Men and Machines that made Aviation History
(A
small note under the title says “Is “Biggles”
here? Perhaps: who knows?
If
not, he will be in the January Number in a story entitled “The Professor”)
Page
514 – Fighting Planes of the Royal Air Force – Major Oliver Stewart
Page
517 – A full page (colour) advert for Hamleys and a Flying Scale Model
Pages
518 and 519 - The Centre Pages – an illustration by an uncredited artist – “A
Dreadnought of the Skies”
Page
521 – What to Buy for 1933 – British Machines for the Private Owner – Capt. C.
E. Ward
Page
527 – Where to Fly – A Guide to your Nearest Aerodrome
(It
is interesting to note that the County where I live – Herefordshire - was
without an aerodrome
or landing ground in 1932. Now – some 75
years – we still only have one small one at Shobdon)
Page
528 – Records and Achievements in the Air
Page
530 – Did You Know – by Howard Leigh
Page
532 – A Seven League Stride in Model Aviation – W. Rigby
Page
536 – By Air Mail – An Aero-Philatelic Review of 1932
Page
542 – The Mix-Up – An Amusing Competition for a Dull Evening
(You
had to cut out the 8 jumbled aircraft illustrated and re-arrange them in a 6
inch by 6 inch box into a “realistic dogfight”. The prize for the best entry, a gold fountain pen, would go to
the arrangement most like the
original
picture that had been drawn by the artist before all of the aircraft were
jumbled up)
Page
545 – Falcons of France – A Thrilling Serial of War in the Air – Charles
Nordhoff and J. N. Hall
Page
556 – The Aviation Bookshelf
Page iv – The Buyers’ Log
Click here to see a much larger picture of
the cover artwork – the artist is uncredited
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