April
1935
Volume
4 Number 1 (37 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 1 to page 56 (56 pages)
Inside Front Cover – An Advert for a “Bristol” Bulldog
(It’s rather surprising to see a reversed swastika on the plane – I bet they ditched that as world events moved on!)
Page 6 – Contents Page
Page
8 – “Demonstration” – A photograph of a Vickers Vildebeest Torpedo Bomber
undergoing a test flight
Page
9 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(“Three
years ago this month the words POPULAR FLYING were set in print on this page
for the first time,
which
is another way of saying that it is our third birthday …..” The editorial is then subtitled – The Boy
Stood On –
“Being
the first of a series of lucid, unbiased articles on air sunshine holidays,
drawn from personal experience” )
Page
12 – Tell Us More – Yvonne Cloud
Page
14 – The Airport Problem – An Invention for Centralising Air Traffic –
Carmichael Earl (an alias for WE Johns son)
Page
17 – My Most Thrilling Flight – An Easter Monday Outing – Captain C. M. Down
(This
account was not published in 1936 in the book ‘Thrilling Flights’)
Page
20 – Leaping for Life – Parachuting Escapes in the Royal Air Force – Charles
Dixon
Page
23 – Portraits for Posterity (No. 10) – Second-Lieutenant William Barnard
Rhodes-Moorhouse, V.C.
Page
24 – Memories of 40 Squadron – F. T. Gilbert
Pages
28 and 29 – The Centre Pages – Brave Old World
Page
30 – Flying Wires – News from All Quarters
Page
33 – Those Remarkable Rotaries – The Ingenious Gnome, Le Rhone and Monosoupape
Engines – W. Boddy
Page
35 – Humorous Sideslips from Here and There
Page
36 – Co-Pilot – A Complete Story – M. P. Lynn-Stevens
Page
39 – The Modeller’s Guide – Those Fokkers
Page
40 – Aero-Philately and Aviation – Francis G. Field
Page
42 – Various Verses
(“We
seem to have very few air poets. Here are
some verses that have reached us from various authors”)
Page 43 – An Advert for Aviation & General Insurance Co. Ltd.
Page 44 – Under the Windstocking
(“Readers’ Correspondence. Conducted by the Editor”
The correspondence continues onto page 54
where we are told “Mr. E. Gibbings, at one time orderly room
clerk to Major Hawker, V.C., No. 24 Squadron
R.F.C. is looking for a job in any capacity on an aerodrome.
Letters sent to this office will be forwarded”)
Page 46 – Told on the Tarmac
(“Sky-writing at 18,000 ft – We hear from Sydney St. Barbe that he is finding a Miles Hawk Major ideal for sky-writing. This he is now doing at 18,000 feet. With a minimum of slipstream and the machine’s remarkably quick climb and handiness, the letters are clear, and remain for a remarkably long time”)
Page 51 – Advert for Wakefield Castrol XXL
Page 56 – The Buyers’ Log
On
the back cover is the usual John Hamilton advert – for 10 of their books but
also with a listing of “15 titles, previously published”. The 25 books advertised include all of the
first five John Hamilton Biggles books
as
well as ‘The Raid’, ‘V.C.s of the Air’ and ‘The Spy Flyers’ all by W.
E. Johns
For
the first time there is no “Planes of History – illustrated by Howard Leigh” in
Popular Flying Magazine
Click here
to see a much larger picture of the cover artwork – the artist is Beresford
Johnson
The picture is
titled “Speeding Up”
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