August
1934
Volume
3 Number 5 (29 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 225 to page 272 (48 pages)
Page
230 – Contents Page
Page
232 – “Skartists!” - A Photograph of “Sky-scribes weaving weird and fascinating
patterns at Hendon”
Page
233 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(Subtitled
– The Royal Air Force Display – “The memory of what may be the last R.A.F.
Display at Hendon was marred by the accident in which Squadron Leader Collett
lost his life ……….”
In
a paragraph labelled “Sorry” Johns apologises for an error on Page 172
of
the July 1934 issue when a Fairey Firefly was wrongly labelled a Hawker Fury)
Page 236 African Flight – Scott Lindberg (Foreword on Wilson Airways by V. J.
Wheeler)
Page
240 – Portraits for Posterity (2) – Lieut. Col. William Avery Bishop, V.C.,
D.S.O. and Bar, M.C, D.F.C., R.F.C.
(“A
Canadian from Ontario, he was the victor of a hundred sky combats, with an
official record of 72 enemy planes”)
Page
241 – My Most Thrilling Flight – Turkish Delight – Lieut. S. J. Wise (Retd.)
(This account was published in 1936 in the book ‘Thrilling Flights’ as the 20th of 20 accounts)
Page 243 – Price v. Performance – The Cheap Light
Plane Question – F. G. Miles
Page 246 – A Balloon Ascent from Cremorne
Gardens. 1854 – Moyra Fuller
Pages 248 and 249 – The Centre Pages – “What is Done by Night, Appears by Day” – An
illustration by Howard Leigh
Page 250 – A Day With No. 16 Squadron – Flying
Officer F. C. E. Hayter
Page 253 – Sky Terriers – A Complete Story –
Harry Jackson
Page 256 – Flying Wires – Condensed News Items
intercepted during the month
Planes 258 – Planes of History (No. 29) – The
Fokker D.VIII. – illustrated by Howard Leigh
Page 259 – Navigation for the Amateur Pilot – P.
Goudime
Page 260 – The Aviation Bookshelf
Page 261 – Rolls-Royce – The Best Car in the World
(Their first photographic advert in Popular Flying Magazine)
Page
262 – Under the Windstocking
(“The
Aerial Steam Carriage”)
Page 272 – The Buyers’ Log
On
the back cover is the usual John Hamilton advert – for 5 of their books.
There
is again a prominent advert for Wings Flying Thrills (paper-backed version) by
such well-known authors as Captain W. E. Johns;
Captain Heydemarck, “Vigilant” and Arch Whitehouse. A wonderful shillingsworth.”
There
is also an advert for ‘The Cockpit’ and ‘Planes of the Great War 1914 – 1918’
by Howard Leigh”.
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