JANUARY
1933
Volume
1 Number 10 (10
of 88)
This issue of Popular Flying magazine features the “Biggles” story
The Professor
Contents
This issue runs from page 557 to page 612 (56 pages)
Page 557 – Contents Page
Page 560 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W.
E. Johns
(Subtitled – Photo Phantasies – In which Johns states that after
years of collecting aviation photographs and researching many archives of
different Nations he has never found a real photo of aviation combat. This is because in a dog-fight you don’t have
the time to pick up a camera when you are trying to dodge bullets.
A box at the end informs readers “A few back numbers are now
available at 6d per copy. Readers
wishing to complete their volumes should write to the Publisher without delay”)
Page 562 – The Firm
Next Door – Arthur Cave
Page 565 – Aviation
in the Colonies – Canada – Capt. C. E. Ward
Page 567 – Deck
Landing – by a Pilot of the Fleet Air Arm
Page 434Page 570 – My Most Thrilling Flight – Commander Joachim Breithaupt
(This article is by the Commander of Zeppelin L.XV when he was
shot down over the English Channel in 1916.
This account was published in 1936 in the book ‘Thrilling
Flights’ as the 11th of 20 accounts)
Page 572 – From Wagons to Wings – Cyril B. Mills
Page 574 – The Paris Aero Show 1932 – by ‘Hawk’
Page 577 – The
Professor – A “Biggles” Story – W. E. Johns
This Biggles story continues on pages 578 and 598
The illustrations are by Edward Oldham.
Following publication of “The Camels are Coming” Johns is no longer
using his pseudonym of William Earle.
In March 1934 this story was published in the third Biggles book
– “Biggles of the Camel Squadron”
Page 579 – Planes of History – The Fokker D.VII.
Page 580 – Aviation in Hollywood – Film Stars Who Fly – W. A. Jeffreys
Page 582 - Knights of the Air – Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker
Pages 584 and 585 - The Centre Pages – a striking composite
picture of a dog fight – “Camels to the Rescue”
Page 586 – Fake – All Fake. More clever work with
models.
Page 587 – Sailplaning is Plain Sailing – J. R. Ashwell-Cooke
Page 588 – Did You Know – by E. A. Wren
Page 590 – Falcons of France – A Thrilling Serial of War in the
Air – Charles Nordhoff and J. N. Hall
Page 596 – Motor Musings – “Janus”
Page 600 – Told on the Tarmac
Page 603 – Around the Schools and Clubs
Page 603 includes a photo of W. E. Johns (fourth from right) and the only photo of Howard Leigh (far right) I have ever seen(!)
Page 606 – Air Post Stamps – A Review of 1932 (a conclusion to
last months article) – Francis J. Field
Page 608 – Model Planes – An Introduction to the Hobby – F. W.
Stuckey
Page 610 – The Aviation Bookshelf
(The books reviewed this month include “Fighting Planes and
Aces” by W. E. Johns)
Page 612 – The Buyers’ Log
(Aircraft for Sale – Air stamps – Where to Fly – Opportunities)
On the inside back cover is the usual John Hamilton advert – for
16 of their books including Capt. W. E. Johns books ‘Fighting Planes and Aces’, ‘The Pictorial Flying Course’
and ‘The Camels are Coming’. ‘Wings:
Flying Adventures’ edited by W. E. Johns is also on the list
Click here to see a much larger picture of
the cover artwork – the artist is Howard Leigh
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