January
1935
Volume
3 Number 10 (34 of 88)
SPECIAL MIDDLE EAST 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)
Inner Front Cover – A Colour Advert for Vickers (Aviation) Limited
Page 502 – Contents Page
(There is now a new layout to the contents
page and for this “Special Egyptian Issue
and the contents page is set by the side of a photograph of an effigy of an Egyptian Pharaoh)
Page
503 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(Subtitled
– The Mannock Spirit – in this editorial Johns criticises a speech made by the
Marquess of Londonderry, the Secretary of State for Air. Johns quotes part of the speech and then
says “To his Lordship, those sentiments may sound very dignified and inspiring,
but to me they sound like the bleat of a very superior English sheep that has
lost its lamb. Never have I read
anything quite so pathetically futile, so painstakingly negative, so utterly
fustian. How well I can imagine the
sort of fellow who wrote that piece of parsimonious bunkum.”
There
is a box on Page 505 saying
“The
Editor and the staff of “Popular Flying” wish all readers at home and abroad A
HAPPY CHRISTMAS”.
Although this was the January issue, Popular
Flying was published on the 20th of the month prior to the cover
date.)
Page
506 – The Private Owner’s Outlook – Kamal Bey Eloui – Managing Director of
Misr-Airwork
Page
509 – Wings Over Egypt – A Brief History of Aviation in the Middle East
Page
510 – What Middle East Operators Need – Commercial Aviation in Egypt, Palestine
and the Sudan – H. Spooner
Page
514 – With a Dragon in Arabia – Geoffrey Mahoney (Late of Misr-Airwork)
Page
518 – Civil Aviation in Palestine – (“We regret that we are not permitted to
publish the name of the author”)
Page
520 – A Grim Day Off Gwadur – Flight-Lieut. R. Linton
Page
522 – Flying Wires – News from Far and Near
Pages
524 and 525 – The Centre Pages – “Interesting and Decorative Examples of Modern
Air Post Letters”
Page
526 – A Review of “King of Air Fighters” – The Biography of Major “Mick”
Mannock” by Flight-Lieut. I. R. A. Jones
(On
Page 527 there is an illustration of “Richthofen’s Last Flight” by Frank L.
Westley. The review is by W.
E. Johns)
Page
529 – Portraits for Posterity (No. 7) – Major James Byford McCudden, V.C.,
D.S.O., M.C., M.M.
Page
530 – Under the Windstocking
(Readers’
Correspondence. Conducted by the Editor
The
correspondence are mainly former First World War Pilots)
Page 531 – Planes of History (No. 34) – Morane-Saulnier Type “P” Parasol – illustrated by Howard Leigh
Page 533 – An Advert for Misr-Airwork – Almaja Airport, Cairo.
Page 535 – An Advert for the Egypt Travel Bureau – “Piccadilly to Cairo in 4 ½ Days – Visit Egypt and the Sudan”
Page 540 – Memories of 60 Squadron R.F.C. (Continued from last month) – Sergt.-Major A. A. Nicod
Page 546 – Told on the Tarmac
(“Some of the most amazing “dog-fight” photographs have recently reached us from “Skybird” enthusiasts and model makers. In fact, these are so good that we shall publish, next month, a double page selection of them”)
Page 547 – An Advertisement for Wolseley Motors
Page 552 – The Buyers’ Log
On
the back cover is the usual John Hamilton advert – for 12 of their books.
Books
include ‘Planes of the Great War’ but for the first time there are no W.
E. Johns books advertised
Click here
to see a much larger picture of the cover artwork – the artist is unknown
The picture is titled “The First “Southampton” Egyptian Cruise, 1926”
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