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 by Flying-Officer W. E. Johns
(NOT Captain this time!) who
“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 rogerharris@biggles.info)
Below are pictures of what I believe are these signed copies of
FIGHTING PLANES AND ACES and THE CAMELS ARE COMING (the 100 signed Camels were
NOT first editions but later editions)
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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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