February
1935
Volume
3 Number 11 (35 of 88)
(NB – There is an error on
Page 561 “The Editor’s Cockpit” where this issue is wrongly referred to as
Volume 3 Number 12!)
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 553 to page 600 (48 pages)
Page
560 – A Frank L. Westley illustration of three of the new “Pterodactyl”
fighters as portrayed on the cover picture
Page
561 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(Not
Subtitled)
Page
564 – Defending London in the Air – Interception – The Inside Story – “Lynx”
(“Lynx”
is an officer who has just retired from the R.A.F. after many years’ service –
Ed.)
Page
568 – Something New in Fighters – Flt./Lt. C. W. McKinley Thompson
Page
570 – The Truth about Warneford – Lt.-Commander R. F. Lee-Dillon
(“Who
was flying with him a few minutes before his death”)
Page
573 – My Most Thrilling Flight – Captain A. H. Cobby
(This
account was not published in 1936 in the book ‘Thrilling Flights’)
Page
575 – Portraits for Posterity (No. 8) – Captain Lanoe George Hawker, V.C.
Pages
576 and 577 – The Centre Pages – The Birth of an Aeroplane – From Mock-Up to
Finished Article
Page
578 – The First Fighter Squadron – No. 11 Squadron R.F.C. – A. J. Insall
(On
Page 579 there is a photograph of the remains of Baron von Richthofen’s aeroplane
at the aerodrome of No. 3 Squadron of the Australian Flying Corps, near
Bertangles. 22nd April 1918)
Page
582 – Flying Wires – What the World is Doing
Page
584 – The Art of the Model Maker – Realistic Model Arrangements and Cunning
Photography by Readers
Page
586 – Diamonds by Air – A Complete Story – John Rolf
Page
588 – Planes of History (No. 35) – The Pfalz Scout D.XII – illustrated by
Howard Leigh
Page
590 – The Banqueting Season – Aviation Dines and Dances (a selection of
photographs)
Page
598 – Under the Windstocking
(There
are no letters this month but there is an excellent no nonsense article by W.
E. Johns complaining about some of the ridiculous
letters he receives ……. “In the first place I should like readers to bear in
mind when they reach for their stylos, that while they have perhaps only one
letter to write, that same epistle will be one of a hundred or more waiting to
greet me on the Editorial desk the next morning. Now if these letters were brief, to the point, or contained one
honest-to-goodness question it might be possible to deal with them forthwith
and still leave time for the more important work of getting the paper to
press. But they are not, and I
sometimes wonder if the fellow who writes five closely written foolscap sheets
about his past life, and finishes up by asking me to find him a job in
aviation, seriously supposes that I have an hour or more to devote to what is,
after all is said and done, of no interest to me or anyone else except himself. Be reasonable. And the same applies to the reader who thinks, presumably, that
while he is writing he might as well make a job of it, and tabulates anything
from a dozen to twenty questions the answering of which would involve a day’s
work in a library ……..”))
On
the back cover is the usual John Hamilton advert – for 9 of their books.
Books
include ‘Planes of the Great War’ and “Wings. Flying Thrills” (“Winter Number
Now Ready”) containing stories by W. E. Johns
and others
Click here
to see a much larger picture of the cover artwork – the artist is Frank L.
Westley
The picture is titled “Something New in Fighters”
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