November
1933
Volume
2 Number 8 (20 of 88)
This issue of Popular Flying magazine features the “Biggles” story
Beauty and the
Beast
Contents
This issue runs from page 405 to page 456 (52 pages)
Page
408 – Contents Page
Page
410 – A Photographic Portrait of Colonel W. A. Bishop, V.C. D.S.O. (the leading
surviving British “Ace”)
Page
411 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(Subtitled
– Some Facts and Figures – This is about the Directorate of Civil Aviation’s
published ‘Report on the Progress of Civil Aviation, 1932’ which sets out some
interesting facts and figures. For
example, Flying for hire or reward in the U.K. for the five year period 1928 –
1932, 170,900 flights were made per passenger killed, and 427,200 per passenger
injured. Over the same period 1,094,000
aircraft miles were flown per accident in which the occupants were killed or
injured.)
Page 412 – Dependability – The Main Factor – Air
Commodore Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith
Page 414 – The Case for the Attack-Ship – Alfred Cellier
(The American Authority on Military Aviation)
Page 417 – The Zepp Straffers – Thomas A. Lloyd (Author of “Reminiscences of 39 Squadron, R.A.F”)
Page 420 – Beauty and the Beast – A “Biggles” Story – W. E. Johns
This
Biggles story continues on pages 421, 422, 446 and 454
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 423 – A New British Aircraft – The Comper
“Mouse” – A 3-Seater Cabin Monoplane with D.H. Gipsy Major Engine
Page 424 – My Most Thrilling Flight – Lieut. V. D. Grant
(This account was published in 1936 in the book ‘Thrilling Flights’ as the 14th of 20 accounts)
Page 426 – The Coast Defence Exercises – Sham War
That Makes History – Major C. C. Turner
Page 429 – Planes of History – The Sopwith
One-And-A-Half Strutter – illustrated by Howard Leigh
Pages 430 and 431 - The Centre Pages – “Going
Down!” – an illustration by Frank L. Westley
Page 432 – Oswald Boelcke – Knight of Germany – W.
E. Johns
Page
434 – Under the Windstocking
(Readers’ Letters. Conducted by the Editor
This continues onto page 455 where my
favourite letter is “Dear Sir – My friend and I have been trying
hard to find out if a fly half-rolls or
loops to land on the ceiling. We have
caught two or three and put
them in a jar, but the little blighters are too quick for us. Can any of your readers answer this question?)
Page 436 – The Air League of the British Empire – The Air and the Navy
Page 438 – Combat Tactics – Continued from Last Month – “Tracer”
Page 442 – Motor Mutterings – “Janus”
Page 444 – Slipstream
Page 448 – Air Post Stamps – Modern British Air Mails
Page 449 – Full Page Cartoon by John Reynolds Advertising Shell
Page 450 – Model Planes – The Airspeed “Courier”
Page 452 – Round the Schools and Clubs
Page
454 – The Aviation Bookshelf
Page 456 – The Buyers’ Log
On
the back cover is the usual John Hamilton advert – this time for 28 of their
books.
They
include – for the first time – an illustration of ‘Cruise of the Condor’ by
Flying-Officer W. E. Johns. Other Johns
books advertised are ‘The Pictorial Flying Course’ by Flight-Lieut. H. M.
Schofield and Flying-Officer W. E. Johns
and
‘The Spyflyers’ as it is now correctly titled, again by Flying-Officer W. E.
Johns, ‘Fighting Planes and Aces’ by Flying-Officer W. E. Johns and ‘The Camels
are Coming by W. E. Johns (William Earle).
‘Wings:
Flying Adventures edited by Flying-Officer W. E. Johns is also advertised.
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to see a much larger picture of the cover artwork – the artist is Eric Duncan
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