FEBUARY
1933
Volume
1 Number 11 (11 of 88)
This issue of Popular Flying magazine features the “Biggles” story
The Joy Ride
Contents
This issue runs from page 613 to page 668 (56 pages)
Page
613 – Contents Page
(The
“Biggles” story in this index is referred to as “The Joy-Ride” with a hyphen
but the actual story isn’t)
Page
615 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(Subtitled
– Air Transportation – A Passenger’s Plaint)
Page 618 – The Joy Ride – A New “Biggles” Story – W. E. Johns
This
Biggles story continues on pages 619 and 620
The
illustrations are by Edward Oldham and Howard Leigh.
W.
E. Johns is not credited at all on this story.
In
March 1934 this story was published in the third Biggles book – “Biggles of the
Camel Squadron”
Page
612 – Blind Flying is the Fashion – Winifred Brown
Page
624 – Bristol Built – L. G. Callingham
Page
627 – More Faked Dog Fights
434Page
628 – My Most Thrilling Flight – Pauline Gower
(This
lady was the third woman to have a “B” Licence in this country.
This
account was published in 1936 in the book ‘Thrilling Flights’ as the 12th
of 20 accounts)
Page
630 – Arms and the Man - Photographs
from the Imperial War Museum
Page
632 - Knights of the Air – Captain Albert Ball VC, DSO, MC
Page
635 – Early Days – Some Personal Recollections – Harry Harper
(This
article has some photos of Orville and Wilbur Wright and tells us, amongst
other things that the First Lord of the Admiralty wrote to them and said “I
have consulted my expert advisers with regard to your suggestion as to the
employment of aeroplanes and I regret to have to tell you, after the careful
consideration of my Board, that the Admiralty, whilst thanking you for so
kindly bringing the proposals to their notice, are of opinion that they would
not be of any practical use to the Naval Service”.
Page
637 – Planes of History – The F.E.
Page
638 – A Trip Round “Mespot” – (Photographs from Iraq)
Pages
640 and 641 - The Centre Pages – an illustration by Howard Leigh – “Rode the
Six Hundred”
Page
642 – A Naval Occasion – A Short Story Founded on Facts by E.A.S.
Page
644 – The Aeronautical and Automobile Engineering Dinner
(Caricatures
by Fred May)
Page
648 – Tarmac Scrapings – by ToothComber
Page
650 – Motor Musings – “Janus”
Page
652 – Falcons of France – A Thrilling Serial of War in the Air – Charles
Nordhoff and J. N. Hall
(This
continues onto page 654 where the results of the Christmas Mix-Up Competition are
also given)
Page
656 – Told on the Tarmac
Page
659 – Round the Schools & Clubs
Page 661 – The Aviation Bookshelf
Page
664 – More Readers’ Photographs (Some Ingenious Scale Models) and Plane Models
(The Sopwith Camel)
Page
666 – By Air Mail – Useful Information
Page 612 – The Buyers’ Log
(Where to Fly)
Page
668 – Under the Windstocking
(What
Readers Think. Conducted by the Editor)
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 unknown
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