October
1934
Volume
3 Number 7 (31
of 88)
SPECIAL CANADIAN NUMBER
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 329 to page 384 (56 pages)
Page 331 – An Advert for ‘The Greatest Story of Flying Ever Told’
– The air life of Major “Micky” Mannock
- Publication will begin EXCLUSIVELY in the September 30 edition
of the SUNDAY DISPATCH
Page 332 – Contents Page
Page 334 – “The Abode of the Gods” – A photograph of Mount Rainier
in Canada, which rises to 14,400 feet
(This photograph was clearly the inspiration for Howard Leigh’s
cover for “Biggles Flies North”
published May 1939)
Page 335 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W.
E. Johns
(Subtitled – Our Canadian Number –
At the end in a paragraph headed “Au Revoir” Johns says “By the
time you read this I shall, I hope, by giving my aching pen a brief respite in
some remote spot where the sky is blue and the panting of the passionate
crooner is not heard. Will querists,
therefore, kindly hold up the correspondence barrage for a week or two? Anyway, if you do not receive a reply to your
letter you will know why”.)
Page 338 – What Canadian Operators Need – There are more American
than British machines in Canada – Why?
Our efforts to capture contracts have too often failed – Why? –
Arnold H Sandwell (Aviation Editor, Montreal Daily Star)
Page 342 – Sky Tramps of the Gold Belt – Kim Beattie
Page 347 – Flying Firemen – Kenneth Walters
Page 350 – Portraits for Posterity (4) – Captain A. R. Brown, D.
S. C.,
(“Captain Roy Brown is well known to students of air-war history
as the officer who shot down and killed
Rittmeister Baron
Manfred von Richthofen, leader of the famous German “Circus” that bore his
name”)
Page 351 – Chivalry in the Air – Lt.- Col. W. A. Bishop, V.C.,
D.S.O., M.C., D.F.C.
(“Bitterness and hatred was not present
in the Air Forces”)
Page 354 – R. C. A. F. – A Brief History of the Royal Canadian Air
Force
Pages
356 and 357 – The Centre Pages – “Canadian Cameos”
“Magnificent
photographs by the Royal Canadian Air Force, specially provided for this issue
of POPULAR FLYING”
Page
358 – Flying in the Arctic – by the Venerable A. L. Flemming,
Archdeacon of the Arctic
Page
360 – Smart Alec and the Box – Wilfrid Tremellen
Page
362 – Double Page Advert for National Benzole Mixture
Page
364 – Flying Wires – Condensed News Items intercepted during the month
Page 366 – Under the Windstocking
(Readers’ Correspondence.
Conducted by the Editor)
Page 372 – Motor
Mutterings – “Janus”
Page 377 –
Navigation for the Amateur Pilot – Cross-Country – P. Goudime
Page 380 – Planes
of History (No. 31) – The Vickers “Vedette” – illustrated by Howard Leigh
Page 384 – The
Buyers’ Log
On the back cover is the usual John Hamilton advert – for 11 of
their books.
There is again a prominent advert for Wings Flying Thrills (No. 2.
ready 1st October) by such well-known authors as Capt. W. E. Johns; Capt. 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 ‘The Pictorial Flying Course’ co-written by Captain W. E. Johns.
At the top of the advert is “Richthofen – The Red Knight of the
Air by “Vigilant”
Click
here to see a much larger picture of the cover artwork – the artist is E.
Duncan –
The picture is entitled “The Dominion of Canada”
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