December
1933
Volume
2 Number 9 (21 of 88)
This issue of Popular Flying magazine features the “Biggles” story
Bob’s Box
Contents
This issue runs from page 457 to page 520 (64 pages)
(Special Enlarged Christmas Number)
Page
462 – Contents Page
Page
464 – Visibility Good – A Photograph of a “Monospar” arriving over Reims in
France
Page
465 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(Subtitled
– Prospects and Prophecies.)
Page 468 – Free Ballooning in 1933 – H. Gordon
Selfridge, Jun.
Page 472 – Running a Flying School – Captain
Duncan Davis
Page 474 – Wings and the West Indies – Martin
Raymond
Page 476 – Do You Remember? – A Selection of
Imperial War Museum Photographs
Page 477 – Memories of No. 11 Squadron, R.F.C.
(1917) – Captain F. Adams
Page 479 – The Craze for Flying – C. H. Lea
Page 480 – Stunting and Showmanship – Flight-Lieut. C. Turner-Hughes
Page 482 – Bob’s Box – A “Biggles” Story – W. E. Johns
This
Biggles story continues on pages 483, 484, and 504
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 485 – Salamanders of the Air – Special
Aircraft Against Ground Troops – Major C. C. Turner
Pages 488 and 489 - The Centre Pages – “The Far East Flight” – an illustration by an uncredited artist
Page 490 – R.A.F. Far East Flight – “The Greatest
Flight in History”
(This page lists all the people who took
part in this 3000 mile flight of four British Supermarine “Southhampton” Flying
Boats from Plymouth to Australia, circumnavigated that Continent and then
returned to Singapore. I note with
interest that one of the participants is a Flight-Lieut. C. G. Wigglesworth, A.
F. C.)
Page 491 – Magic in the Air – A Bedtime Story –
John Templer
Page 492 - Planes of History – The Bristol
Monoplane – illustrated by Howard Leigh
Page 493 – The Air League of the British Empire –
Air Defence
Page
495 – Under the Windstocking
(Readers’ Letters. Conducted by the Editor
This continues onto page 496 where a box adds “It is regretted that, owing to the large number of letters now received daily, only those with stamped, addressed envelopes will be answered. No further letters dealing with aviation as a career can be answered for the time being. This subject has been dealt with editorially several times, and there is nothing further to add. The subject will be dealt with again when further developments warrant it – Ed”)
Page 498 – Told on the Tarmac – The Far East Flight
Page 500 – Round the Schools and Clubs
Page 505 – Full Page Advert for Rolls-Royce Aero Engines – For Speed and Reliability
Page 506 – Model Plane Pedigrees – W. Rigby
Page 511 – Air Post Stamps – The Ubiquitous Aeroplane
Page 518 – A Model Plane Competition
Page 519 – The Buyers’ Log
Page
– 520 – The page before its usual place on the back cover is the John Hamilton
advert – this time for 23 of their books.
They include ‘The Cruise of the Condor’ by Flying-Officer W. E. Johns,
‘The Pictorial Flying Course’ by Flight-Lieut. H. M. Schofield and
Flying-Officer W. E. Johns, ‘The Spyflyers’ by Flying-Officer W. E. Johns,
‘Fighting Planes and Aces’ by Flying-Officer W. E. Johns and ‘Wings: Flying
Adventures edited by Flying-Officer W. E. Johns. The back cover itself is taken up by an a full page advert for
“The Supermarine Aviation Works (Vickers Limited), Southampton”.
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to see a much larger picture of the cover artwork – the artist is unknown
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