APRIL
1933
Volume
2 Number 1 (13 of 88)
This issue of Popular Flying magazine features the “Biggles” story
The Bottle Party
This issue of Popular Flying magazine contained a free supplementary print illustrated by Geoffrey Watson
The
R.A.F. Long-Distance Fairey-Napier Monoplane
Contents
This issue runs from page 1 to page 56 (56 pages)
Page
3 – Contents Page
Page
5 – Letter of congratulations on Popular Flying’s first birthday from F.
Shelmerdine – the Director of Civil Aviation
Page
672 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(This
article is all about the success of Popular Flying and then about Air
Transportation)
Page 9 – The Peppercorn Aces – Edgar Jepson and
Frank Birkinshaw
Page
12 – How Big Flights are Planned – Amy Mollison
Page
14 – My Most Thrilling Flight – “Contact” (Alan Bott)
(This
account was NOT published in the 1936 book ‘Thrilling Flights’)
Page
17 – Modern British Aircraft (1) – The Hawker Rolls-Royce Osprey
Page
18 – When Knights Were Bold – Authentic War Photos from the Imperial War Museum
Page
20 – Aviation as a Career – No 2 Appointments in Civil Flying – Major Oliver
Stewart
Page
23 – Round the World Without a Stop – Refueling Aircraft in Flight – Captain
Charles Ward
Page
25 – A Critical Moment – an illustration of Air Combat by F. L. Westley
Page
26 – Combat Tactics – “Tracer”
(This
interesting article – illustrated with diagrams of aeroplanes blind spots, sets
out the correct way to attack planes)
Pages 28 and 29 - The Centre Pages – A Trip Over London – (This time our camerman has stayed nearer home)
Page 30 – Long Distance Flight – Air Commodore J. A. Chamier
Page 32 – The Bottle Party – A New “Biggles” Story – W. E. Johns
This
Biggles story continues on pages 33 and 34
The
illustrations are uncredited but appear to be more like Edward Oldham work than
Howard Leigh’s.
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
35 – Here, There & Everywhere – an interesting set of photographs published
by permission of “Shell”
Page
36 – Told on the Tarmac
(A
boxed note on this page also informs readers that Popular Flying has opened a
special enquiry bureau to assist them with air related enquiries. Advice will be give free of charge)
Page
38 – Filming Everest
Page
42 – Round the Schools & Clubs
Page
44 – Air Post Collecting – Past & Future – Francis J. Field
Page
46 – Petrol-Driven Model Aeroplanes – Captain C. E. Bowden
Page
47 – A Full Page Advert for “Skybirds” Constructive 1.70 Scale Models (of
aircraft and hangers)
Page
48 – Royal Air Force – Old Comrades Association – “Popular Flying” to be
official organ
Page 52 – The Aviation Bookshelf
(This
includes a large boxed 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 54 – Under the Windstocking
(What
Readers Think. Conducted by the Editor)
Page 55 – The Buyers’ Log
(Where
to Fly)
On
the inside back cover is the usual John Hamilton advert – for 9 of their books
BUT Johns is credited as Flying-Officer W. E. Johns (NOT Captain this time!),
in the adverts for ‘Fighting Planes and Aces’ and ‘The Camels are Coming’
Click here to see a much larger picture of
the cover artwork – the artist is Edward Oldham
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