March
1935
Volume
3 Number 12 (36 of 88)
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 601 to page 648 (48 pages)
Page 606 – Contents Page
Page
608 – “The Aircraft Carrier” – A striking bow-on photograph of H.M.S.
Courageous
Page
609 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(Not
Subtitled – There is a box on this page stating “Readers are strongly advised
to give their newsagent a standing order for “Popular Flying”. This will prevent the disappointment which
must be the experience of many who do not get their copies at time of
publication. Practically every issue
during the past twelve months has run out of print immediately after
publication.”)
Page
610 – Via Atlantic – Is Great Britain Missing a Golden Opportunity? – Nigel
Tangye
Page
614 – Beyond the Ceiling – Carmichael Earl (An alias for W.
E. Johns’ son)
Page
618 – Who Killed Immelman? – Part 1 – W. R. R. Puglisi
(Immelmann
was famous for the “turn” that he “invented”.
Looping
the loop and turning over at the top of the loop so he was then flying back in
the opposite direction)
Page
621 – Part 2 – How Immelmann Fell (From Berlin Nachtausgabe)
Page
623 – Portraits for Posterity (No. 9) – Captain John Aidan Liddell, V.C.
Pages
624 and 625 – The Centre Pages – Flying Wires – What the World is Doing
Page
626 – My Most Thrilling Flight – Civil Flying Thrills – William Courtney
(This
account was published in 1936 in the book ‘Thrilling Flights’ as the 1st
of 20 accounts.
This
was the last “Thrilling Flight” published in “Popular Flying” to appear in the
book.
As to why this account by William Courtenay,
the Air Correspondent for the London
“Evening
Standard” was chosen to open the book, I am not entirely sure)
Page
629 – A Gallant Failure – Harrison Forman
(“The
story of the first attempt to blaze an air-mail trail between China and the
Philippine Islands”
On
Page 630 there is picture of a Chinese lady who had just be given a “flip” in a
plane and the caption states she is 120 years old. In other words she was born in 1815 the same year as the Battle
of Waterloo!)
Page
632 – Family Servant – Wilfrid Tremellen
Page
635 – Planes of History (No. 36) – The Vickers Vulture – illustrated by Howard
Leigh
Page
645 – An advertisement for M.G. Cars (“By courtesy of “The Motor”)
Page 646 – Told on the Tarmac
Page 648 – The Buyers’ Log
On
the back cover is the usual John Hamilton advert – for 9 of their books.
Books
include ‘Planes of the Great War’ but for the first time we have an advert for
the
“Biggles” book “The Black Peril” by W.
E. Johns
The picture is
titled “Combat”
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