September
1934
Volume
3 Number 6 (30 of 88)
This issue of Popular Flying magazine features NO “Biggles” story. The last “Biggles” story was published in the May 1934 issue
This issue runs from page 273 to page 328 (56 pages)
Page
278 – Contents Page
Page
280 – “An Amazing Action Photograph of a German Balloon Observer Leaving his
Drachen in a Hurry”
Page
281 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(Subtitled
– The Air Exercises)
(Translated
by Claud W. Sykes)
Page
286 – Why Not Learn to Glide? – J. R. Ashwell-Cooke
(On
Page 289 is a list of Gliding Clubs)
Page
290 – Bob Short – Air Hero of the Shanghai War – Harrison Forman
Page
293 – Portraits for Posterity (3) – Captain Andrew Weatherby Beauchamp-Proctor,
V.C., D.S.O., M.C, D.F.C.,
(“Captain
Beauchamp-Proctor who was a South African, was killed on June 21st 1921,
at Upavon, whilst practising for the R.A.F. display. His machine was seen to go into a spin after looping, and fall
out of control”)
Page
294 – The King’s Cup Race – 43 Aeroplanes Line Up For The Big Race
(The
winner was Flt.-Lieut. H. M. Schofield who co-wrote with W.E.
Johns ‘The Pictorial Flying Course’
A
photograph of Schofield can be seen on Page 323 in a Shell advert)
Page
296 – Modern British Aeroplanes (5) – The Avro Club Cadet – Flt.-Lieut. C.
Turner-Hughes
Page
298 – My Most Thrilling Flight – Blue Sparks – J. H. Crowe
Page
316 – Under the Windstocking
(“A
Warbird Speaks”)
On
the back cover is the usual John Hamilton advert – for 9 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
are also adverts for ‘The Cockpit’ and ‘Planes of the Great War 1914 – 1918’ by
Howard Leigh”
and
‘Biggles Flies Again’ and ‘Camel are Coming’ by Captain W.
E. Johns
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