SEPTEMBER
1933
Volume
2 Number 6 (18
of 88)
This issue of Popular Flying magazine features the “Biggles” story
The Blue Orchid
Contents
This issue runs from page 293 to page 348 (56 pages)
Page 294 – Contents Page
Page 297 – Who’s Who in Aviation - A
Photographic Portrait of The Rt. Hon. The Lord Mottistone
of Mottistone
(better known as Fighting Jack Seely) – Chairman of the Air League of the British Empire
Page 298 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W.
E. Johns
(Subtitled – Lift Up Your Eyes – “Shall
England dream when days demand her watchful and awake?”)
Page 301 – The Blue
Orchid – Another “Biggles” Adventure – W. E. Johns
This Biggles story continues on pages 302, 303 and 340
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
304 – A holiday by Air – Flt. – Lieut. Guy Du Boulay
(Retd.)
Page
307 – How Manfred von Richthofen died – The Baroness
K. von Richthofen
(This article is by his mother who organised a Richthofen Exhibition
on the fifteenth anniversary of his death on 21st April 1918)
Page
310 – Power Units – Capt. Charles E. Ward
(This article is all about different internal-combustion engines used for flying)
Page
313 – The Air Exercises – Major C. C. Turner
Page
315 – Photography from the Air – P. Terence Griffith
Page
317 – Smuggling by Air – “Canuck” – The well known
writer on Canada
Page
318 – Pilots – Past and Present – various photographs of groups of pilots
Pages
320 and 321 – The Centre Pages – A Tough Proposition – illustrated by Frank L. Westley
Page 322 – Planes
of History – The Handley Page – illustrated by Howard Leigh
Page 303 – The Air
League of the British Empire – Notice to Members
Page 324 – The Dove
of Peace – a two page illustrated poem – L. D. T.
Page 326 –
Joyriding and Joyriders – Pauline Gower
Page 327 –
Sideslips – Geoffrey Dorman
Page 329 –
Slipstream – News from all Quarters
Page 331 – A Model
Sailplane – W. Rigby
Page 332 – Round
the Schools and Clubs
(This
features a caricatures of Capt. H. Duncan Davis (Managing Director of Brooklands Aviation Ltd and Brooklands
School of Flying)
Page 336 – The Aviation Bookshelf
Page 338 – Under the Windstocking
(Readers’
Correspondence)
Page 342 – Air Post Stamps – A Tragic Flight – The Lithuanian
Transatlantic Mail Stamps
Page 345 – Parliamentary Paragraphs – Aviation News from the House
of Commons
(Discussions in the House include ones that are still with us
today
– Annoyance caused by Low
Flying and More Complaints about Engine Noise)
Page 347 – The Buyers’ Log
On the back cover is the usual John Hamilton advert – this time
for 15 of their books.
Including – “The Spy Flyer” by Flying Officer W. E. Johns (still
not The Spy FlyerS) and the now correctly titled
Cruise of the Condor by Flying Officer W. E. Johns – the second Biggles book
published in August 1933.
‘Wings: Flying Adventures’ edited by Flying Officer W. E. Johns is
also advertised as is ‘The Pictorial Flying Course’ by Schofield and Johns.
Click here to see a much larger picture of
the cover artwork – the artist is Frank L. Westley
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