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 she 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
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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