December
1934
Volume
3 Number 9 (33 of 88)
INDIAN AVIATION 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 441 to page 496 (56 pages)
Page 448 – Contents Page
Page 450 – “This is to be Alone; This, This is Solitude” – A Photograph of a Hawker Hart flying past a mountain
Page
451 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(Subtitled
– The Tale of the Comet – this editorial also features a message from
The
Earl of Willingdon, the Viceroy of India)
Page
454 – The Development of Civil Aviation in India – Major E. Tymms, M.C. –
Director of Civil Aviation in India
Page
455 – Private Flying in India – Lord Ronaldshay
Page
457 – What Indian Operators Need – Nevil Vintcent – Manager of Tata Sons
Aviation Department
Page
460 – Frontier Facets – Radio Tests in the Khyber Pass – C. H. Bennett
Page
464 – Memories of 60 Squadron – Sergt.-Major A. A. Nicod
Pages
468 and 469 – The Centre Pages – Unusually these pages are used for two regular
features
Page
468 – Planes of History (No. 33) – The Pfalz D.R.1 Triplane – illustrated by
Howard Leigh
Page
469 – Portraits for Posterity (6) – Captain Albert Ball, V.C., D.S.O., M.C.
(This
portrait is unusually small as the page features a photograph of the Albert
Ball memorial in Nottingham Castle Grounds and the German tribute to the fallen
airman as well as an extract from the “London Gazette”)
Page
470 – My Most Thrilling Flight – A. J. Insall (Late R.F.C.)
(This
account was published in 1936 in the book ‘Thrilling Flights’ as the 19th
of 20 accounts.
On
Page 471, the second page of this article is a reproduction of a letter dropped
over the British lines in German which reads “To the Royal English Flying
Corps. September 21st
1915. The German airmen thank you
cordially for sending news of the death of our two comrades, Lieutenants
Teschmann and Guvelack, and for the honourable burial. We should be very grateful for details of
their graves. Roesler, Lieutenant.”)
Page
472 – Reunion – A Complete Story – W.E. Johns (Illustrated
by Edward Oldham)
Page
476 – The Collector’s Page – An Aerial Traveller of 150 Years Ago – The Lunardi
Anniversary
(“This
year of 1934 marks the 150th anniversary of the first successful
balloon flight ever made in England, when Vincent Lunardi, Secretary to the
Neapolitan Ambassador in London at that time, made his spectacular ascent from
the Artillery Ground at Moorfields, and flew for nearly 26 miles to Colliers
End, Ware, thus earning for himself the proud title of “The first aerial
traveller in the English atmosphere”)
Page
478 – Under the Windstocking
(Readers’
Correspondence. Conducted by the Editor
One
of the letters complains about how the B.B.C. ignores the subject of aviation)
Page 492 – The Aviation Bookshelf
(This includes a review of ‘Richthofen, the
Red Knight of the Air’ – by “Vigilant”.
The review is by W. E. Johns who
says this “The non de plume “Vigilant” by the way, conceals the identity of one
who served in the Intelligence Service during the war. He speaks German like a native and has spent
a lot of time in the country collecting material for the new book, which every
war-flying student will be anxious to possess”.
There has been speculation that W. E. Johns himself was “Vigilant” but this seems unlikely.)
Page 496 – The Buyers’ Log
On
the back cover is the usual John Hamilton advert – for 12 of their books.
Books
include ‘Wings’, ‘The Cockpit’ and ‘Planes of the Great War’
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to see a much larger picture of the cover artwork – the artist is unknown
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