MARCH
1933
Volume
1 Number 12 (12 of 88)
This issue of Popular Flying magazine features the “Biggles” story
The Bridge Party
Contents
This issue runs from page 669 to page 724 (56 pages)
Page
669 – Contents Page
Page
671 – Saloon Cars of the Air – illustrations by Frank L. Westley
Page
672 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(Subtitled
– Air Transportation)
Page 674 – Aviation as a Career – No. 1
Appointments in Civil Flying – Major Oliver Stewart
Page
677 – Pulling Power – Striking Photographs of the College of Aeronautical
Engineering at Chelsea
Page 678 – Guynemer Goes West – W. E. Johns
Page 681 – Planes of History – The Sopwith “Dolphin”
Page
682 – Away with the Red Flag – A Genuine Light Plane at Last – E. C. Gordon
Page 685 – Stott That Nonsense! – An Early
(F)lying Poster
(The title is not a typo. This is about a fraud by Ralph Stott in 1876 – see page 716 below)
Page 686 – A Trip Round the Holy Land -
(Photographs from Palestine)
Page
688 – Opportunities for Women in the Air – James Mollison
Page
690 – Feud – A Complete Story – Wilfrid Tremellen
Page
693 – Gold Cannibals & Aeroplanes – Flying in the Land of the Headhunters –
Francis McDermott
(This article is all about gold prospecting in New Guinea and the use of Aircraft there. If you have ever read “My Wicked, Wicked Ways” by Errol Flynn (highly recommended) you can read all about his experiences there as well)
Page 695 – Early Days – Some Personal
Recollections – Harry Harper
(Subtitled – 1909. Flying’s Most Wonderful Year
Pages 696 and 697 - The Centre Pages – Over the Roof of the World – (Fantastic photographs of the Himalayas)
Page 700 – The Bridge Party – A “Biggles” Story – W. E. Johns
This
Biggles story continues on pages 701, 702 and 706
The
illustrations are by 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
704 – Speed – To – Morrow – Excerpts from “Horizons” by Norman Bel Geddes
Page
707 – An unusual advert for Dunlop tyres consisting of a letter from Brooklands
School of Flying Ltd.
Page
712 – Round the Schools & Clubs
Page
714 – Plane Models (A German Scout)
Page
716 – An Early Air Adventurer – The Great Flying Hoax of 1876
(This
is about the fraud by Ralph Stott in 1876 which is advertised in the advert
displayed on Page 685 – see above)
Page
718 – Told on the Tarmac
(This
features a photograph of “Major J. H. Doolittle, the well-known American Pilot”
amongst other things.
I
assume this is Lieutenant Colonel James “Jimmy” Doolittle who lead the famous
“Doolittle” raid on Japan on 18th April 1942 in retaliation for
their attack on Pearl Harbour on 7th December 1941)
Page
720 – Air Post Stamps
Page 722 – The Aviation Bookshelf
(This
includes an advert for “Death in the Air” originally published in 1933 by an
anonymous author who was in fact Wesley Archer. Purporting to be real this was a fictionalised account by a
former pilot, using staged aerial combat photos for the “Cockburn-Lange
Collection” which were revealed as a hoax in the 1980’s apparently)
Page 723 – The Buyers’ Log
(Where to Fly)
Page
724 – Under the Windstocking
(What
Readers Think. Conducted by the Editor)
On
the inside back cover is the usual John Hamilton advert – for 6 of their books BUT Flying-Officer W. E. Johns (NOT Captain this
time!) “has autographed one hundred copies of each of his books, ‘Fighting
Planes and Aces’ and ‘The Camels are Coming’.
These signed copies are now available”.
Make sure of your copy by ordering at once ……”
(Where
are they all now I wonder? If you have
one, I would love to hear from you - my e-mail is on the main page)
NB
– For the first time ever in Popular Flying Magazine there is no “My Most
Thrilling Flight” article in this issue
Click here to see a much larger picture of the
cover artwork – the artist is unknown
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