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 toda
– 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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