November
1934
Volume
3 Number 8 (32 of 88)
ENGLAND – AUSTRALIA RACE 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 385 to page 440 (56 pages)
Page
385 – An Advert for MONOSPAR – an aircraft made by General Aircraft Limited
Page
388 – An Advert for WINGED WORDS – an entirely new range of Christmas Cards,
illustrated
by Capt. W. E. Johns
Page 390 – Contents Page
Page
392 – “The Pathfinders” – First Flight from England to Australia – 12th
November 1919
Page
393 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(Subtitled
–Lest We Forget – this editorial is about the first flight to Australia)
Page
395 – Let’s Pull Ourselves Together – A Straight Talk On Air Racing – Nigel
Tangye
Page
399 – The Route and its Alternatives – C. W. A. Scott
Page
404 – The Mac. Robertson International Air Races – List of Competitors
(The
list of entries for the England – Australia Race)
Page
406 – Dawn Patrol – S. Keith Jopp
Page
408 – The Price of Fame – John C. Hook
Page
410 – Men of a New Calling – The Stationmasters of the Empire Airways – R.
Brenard
Pages 412 and 413 – The Centre Pages – Planes
and Personalities in the England – Australia Race
Page
414 – Portraits for Posterity (5) – The Zeppelin Fighters
(A Photograph of Lieut. William Leefe Robinson, V.C., R.F.C., 2nd Lieut. Wulstan Joseph Tempest, D.S.O., M.C., R.F.C., and 2nd Lieut. Frederick Sowery, D.S.O., M.C., A.F.C., R.F.C., and R.A.F. All three of them together)
Page 415 – The Flying Dutchman – A Complete Short
Story – Arthur Cave
Page 419 – A Storm in a Tunnel – L. G. Branson
(An article about the compressed air tunnel
at the National Physical Laboratory)
Page 420 – Planes of History (No. 32) – The
S.V.A. – illustrated by Howard Leigh
Page
421 – Under the Windstocking
(Readers’
Correspondence. Conducted by the
Editor)
Page 423 – Rolls-Royce Aero Engine Advert
Page 424 – Motor Mutterings – “Janus”
Page 430 – Notice. My Most Thrilling Flight.
(This feature has not been discontinued but
has been held over this month
on account of the special Australian Race articles. It will continue next month.)
Page 434 – The Aviation Bookshelf
(This includes a review of ‘Planes of the Great War’ by Howard Leigh)
Page 438 – Told on the Tarmac
Page 440 – The Buyers’ Log
On
the back cover is the usual John Hamilton advert – for 10 of their books.
For
the first time the dust jacket of every advertised book is illustrated in this
advert.
Books
include ‘Wings Flying Thrills’, ‘The Cockpit’, ‘The Pictorial Flying Course’
and ‘Fighting Planes and Aces’ by
W.
E. Johns.
Click here
to see a much larger picture of the cover artwork – the artist is unknown
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