February
1934
Volume
2 Number 11 (23 of 88)
This issue of Popular Flying magazine features the “Biggles” story
The Oriental Touch
Contents
This issue runs from page 569 to page 612 (44 pages)
Page
570 – Contents Page
Page
572 – The Richthofen Circus – An illustration of the Red Baron and seventeen of
his pilots
Page
573 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(Subtitled
– The Question of Advertising – “That is costs more to sell a commodity than it
does to produce it is a fact well known to those engaged in commence …………” Johns talks about how aviation needs to be
publicised.)
Page 576 – Richthofen Memories – Carl-August von
Schoenebeck (Late of Jagdstaffel ll)
Page 580 – Aircraft Carriers of the Future – An
“Airshipman” replies to Major Turner – J. A. Sinclair
Page 584 – The Oasis Circuit Race – Glenda Graham
Page 586 – The Oriental Touch – A “Biggles” Story – W. E. Johns
This
Biggles story continues on pages 587, 588 and 610
The
illustrations are uncredited but may be 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 589 - Planes of History (No. 23) – The Pfalz
Scout (D.III) – illustrated by Howard Leigh
Pages 590 and 591 - The Centre Pages – “Why
Not?” – an illustration by Howard Leigh made from designs submitted by a
reader, Mr. J. D. Browning, of what a future low-powered, popular-priced
aeroplane may look like.
Page 592 – Thirty Years Hence
(“Thirty years ago the brothers Wilbur and
Orville Wright first flew in a power-driven aeroplane.
In this symposium six famous aircraft
designers look ahead at the machines of 1964”
There are some interesting predictions
here. Louis Bieriot (the first man to
fly the English Channel) said “Air travel fares will be drastically reduced,
but private flying as a sport will remain an expensive business”.)
Page 594 –
Submarine Patrol – Charles Dixon (Late W/T Observer, R. N. A. S.)
Page 596 – Combat Tactics – by “Tracer”
(Continued from a previous issue) – Bomber Formations
Page 598 – February Anniversaries – A Resume of
Aeronautical History – J. G. Allen
Page
600 – Under the Windstocking
(Readers’ Letters. Conducted by the Editor
Page 603 – The Air League of the British Empire
(“Six months ago when “Air and Airways”
ceased publication at short notice, the Air League found itself without an
official journal. We owe a debt of
gratitude to the proprietors and editor of Popular Flying for coming to our aid
and filling the gap. The association
has been a pleasant one, but it was from the first fairly clear that it was
likely to be temporary. Popular Flying
could not afford to give more than a limited amount of space for the purposes
of the Air League, nor offer terms which made it practicable for us to
continue. With this number we,
therefore, part from Popular Flying with hearty good wishes on both sides and
with hope of co-operation in the future.
The time has come when the Air League must have its own Journal, and from
February, members will receive the Air Review, which will contain matter
specially chosen to interest them; I
hope that they will like it”.
A boxed note on Page 610 invites members of the Air League to subscribe to Popular Flying at 8s per annum)
Page 604 – The Aviation Bookshelf
Page 605 – Told on the Tarmac
Page 606 – Model Competition Results
(This showed photographs of the three
winning entries in each class –
Flying Scale Models, Flying Non-Scale Models and Non-Flying Models)
Page 611 – The Buyers’ Log
On
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
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to see a much larger picture of the cover artwork – the artist is unknown
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