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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