JULY
1933
Volume
2 Number 4 (16 of 88)
This issue of Popular Flying magazine features the “Biggles” story
The Gold Rush
Contents
This issue runs from page 169 to page 236 (68 pages)
(most of the extra pages are extra adverts)
Page
169 – Full page advert for Rolls Royce Aero Engines – for speed and reliability
Page
171 – A landscape (rather than portrait) photograph of ”The new Hawker “Fury”
with Rolls-Royce Kestrel engine”
(The
caption says that this is – ‘The fastest Military Aircraft in the world’ – even
though it is still a bi-plane)
Page
173 – A half page advert for the R.A.F. Display at Hendon – Saturday, June 24th
1933
Page
174 – Contents Page
Page
176 – A Portrait of the Marshall of the Royal Air Force – Sir John Maitland
Salmond – by Orde
Page
177 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(Subtitled
– More About War-Time Flying Training – This editorial is illustrated with some
very interesting pictures including a couple from Johns own personal collection
of two planes that he himself crashed)
Page 180 – The Gold Rush – The First of a New Series of Biggles Stories – W. E. Johns
This
Biggles story continues on pages 181, 182, 222, 228 and 230
The
illustrations are by Edward Oldham.
W.
E. Johns is not credited at all on this story.
In August 1934 this story was published in the
fourth Biggles book – “Biggles Flies Again”
Page 183 – A Portrait of 2nd Lieut.
Gilbert Stuart Martin Insall, V.C., M.C., R.F.C. – by E. Newling
Page 184 – A Portrait of Capt. Andrew Weatherby
Beauchamp-Proctor, V.C., D.S.O., M.C., D.F.C. – by Cowan Dobson
Page 185 – What Were They Like? – by The Editor (W.E. Johns)
(Information and photographs of various First World War aces – including the next four pages)
Page 186 – A Picture of Col. William Bishop – leading
surviving British ace – A Canadian by birth – with 72 victories
Page 187 – A Portrait of Oblt. Ernst Udet –
Germany’s leading surviving ace – with 62 victories (2nd to
Richhofen)
Page
190 – My Most Thrilling Combat – Hauptmann Hermann Goering
(This somewhat surprising account to find in the pages of Popular Flying again changes the title of the series from the usual ‘My Most Thrilling Flight’. I note with interest the lines “The publication of this article does not necessarily mean that we agree with Captain Goering’s present political activities; we are concerned only with his career as an airman – Ed”. Suffice to say this account was NOT published in the book ‘Thrilling Flights’.
Page 191 – Who Killed Schaefer? – T. Stuart Lewis
(late R.F.C.)
Page 193 – The Aeroplanes They Flew – (an article
about the planes of 1914 – 1918)
Page 198 – And Today (photographs of current
planes)
Page 199 – Royal Air Force Equipment – A Brief
Review of the Machines Used by the R.A.F. today
Pages 202 and 203 - The Centre Pages – Fast and
Fury-ous – an uncredited illustration of a squadron of
Hawker Rolls-Royce Super-Furies in formation.
Page 206 – EA!
As The R.F.C. Saw Them – Striking Pictures of German War-Planes in
Flight
Page 207 – Combat Tactics – Continued from a previous number - by “Tracer”
Page 209 – Who’s Who in the King’s Cup Race – Full List of Entries
Page 211 – The Brain Storm – General W. B. Caddell
Page 212 – A half page advert for The King’s Cup Air Race at Hatfield on Saturday 8th July 1933
Page 215 – The Design of a Military Aircraft – Air Commodore J. A. Chamier
Page 220 – Sideslips – Geoffrey Dorman
Page 224 – Told on the Tarmac
Page 229 – A full page advert for the Merseyside Aviation Display – July 1st 1933 – Liverpool Airport – Speke
The Premier Civil Air Meeting of the Year
Page
232 – Under the Windstocking
(Readers’ Correspondence conducted by the Editor)
Page 234 – The Buyers’ Log
(Between
pages 234 and 235 was inserted a card – possibly for subscription. All that remains in my copy is a stub)
Page
236 – On the last page before the back cover is the usual John Hamilton advert
– this time for 9 of their books.
They
include ‘The Pictorial Flying Course’ by Flight-Lieut. H. M. Schofield and
Flying-Officer W. E. Johns
and
‘Fighting Planes and Aces’ by Flying Officer W. E. Johns
On
the back cover is a full page advert for the Vickers Supermarine “Southampton”
MKIV Rolls-Royce Kestrel Engines and the Supermarine Aviation Works (Vickers)
Limited, Southampton, England.
Click here to see a much larger picture of
the cover artwork – the artist is unknown
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