June
1934
Volume
3 Number 3 (27 of 88)
This issue of Popular Flying magazine features NO “Biggles” story. The last “Biggles” story was published in the May 1934 issue
Contents
This issue runs from page 105 to page 156 (52 pages)
Page
105 – Advert for the R.A.F. Display at Hendon on Saturday, June 30th
1934
Page
110 – Contents Page
Page
112 – A Photograph of “Refueling a “Bristol” engined Imperial Airways liner in
Central Africa
Page
113 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(Subtitled
– Women and Wings – “If anyone asked me what these girls are going to do when
the next war comes along, I should say the answer is a foregone
conclusion. They are going to fly. They will fly because they will be too
valuable in that capacity to be employed in any other ………..”)
Page 115 – The Aerial Steam Carriage 1842 – Capt.
V. D’Oyley Noble
Page 118 – Where Stands Germany? – The German
Point of View – President Bruno Loerzer
(“Herr Adolf Hitler has again assured the
world of the peace-loving nature of the German people.
How
far the world around us believe it is only a matter of goodwill”)
Page 120 – Air and Armageddon – Martin Raymond
434
Page
123 – Colonel S. F. Cody
(“The
late Colonel S. F. Cody, the great pioneer of military flying, and, we believe
the first man to fly in this country, was an American. The honour of being the first Englishman to
fly belongs, therefore, to Colonel J. T. C. Moore Brabazon”)
Page
124 – Flying Instruction Then and Now – Captain H. Duncan Davis
Page
126 – Modern British Aircraft (4) – The Monospar S.T.6 – Flight-Lieut. C.
Turner-Hughes
Page
128 – Flying Wires – Condensed News Items Intercepted During the Month
(Amongst
the many brief articles here is this one “DEAD MEN’S BOOTS – Mr. Potter, who
was detailed to bring in Richthofen’s body after crash, and who kept his boots
as souvenirs is now taking them back to Red Knight’s mother at
Schweidnitz. We suggest the joystick of
machine in which he was shot down, and which we have told is at Australian War
Museum, or at No. 1 Squadron Mess, Point Cook, Victoria, should follow”)
Pages 130 and 131 – The Centre Pages – “What
Now, Demons?” – An illustration by Frank L. Westley
Page
132 – My Most Thrilling Flight – Captain R. W. MacKenzie, M.C.
(This account was published in 1936 in the book ‘Thrilling Flights’ as the 16th of 20 accounts)
Page 83 – Combat Tactics – Bomber Formations
(continued from a previous issue) – “Tracer”
Planes of History (No. 27) – The B.E.2 e.–
illustrated by Howard Leigh
Page 137 – Friends – A Short Story – Wilfrid
Tremellen
Page 140 – Starting An Air Stamp Collection – B.
K. Cooper
Page 142 – Navigation for the Amateur Pilot – P.
Goudime
Page 144 – The Aviation Bookshelf
(For the first time a W. E. Johns books is reviewed
– “Biggles of the Camel Squadron. By W.
E. Johns.
John Hamilton Ltd., price 3s 6d.
Here is the second series of Biggles war-time stories, four or five or
which have appeared in Popular Flying. They
have now been touched up to make them suitable for the younger generation”
Now that is interesting!
Page
146 – Under the Windstocking
(Readers’
Correspondence)
(This
month’s letters include “A Letter from the “Red Knight’s” Mother – Baronin
Richthofen”
and
a letter from a friend of Major “Micky” Mannock V.C. enclosing one of his
original letters)
Page 155 – Told on the Tarmac
Page 156 – The Buyers’ Log
On
the back cover is the usual John Hamilton advert – for 12 of their books.
As
well as the usual W. E. Johns books ‘The Pictorial Flying Course’ and ‘Fighting
Planes and Aces’ we have the first advert for ‘Biggles of the Camel Squadron’
“More flying adventures from the log of Capt. James Bigglesworth, popularly
known in 266 Squadron R.F.C. as “Biggles”.
“Biggles” is without doubt, the most popular character in aviation
fiction”
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