May
1935
Volume
4 Number 2 (38
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 57 to page 112 (56 pages)
Page 57 – An Advert
for Ovaltine “H. L. Brook relied on ‘Ovaltine’ for Endurance and Stamina”
Page 59 – An
Illustrated Advert for “Air Stories” Magazine – issue 1
Page 62 – Contents
Page
(The
contents page is on the same page as a photograph entitled “Heavy Bombers,
1918”
Page 63 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W.
E. Johns
(Subtitled “Why?”
– “This month we lament, with an exceeding bitter lamentation, the death of
Captain Hugh “Tony” Spooner, Superintendent of Flying Operations and Chief
Pilot to the Misr-Airwork Company of Egypt”. Captain Spooner was killed in an aeroplane
crash in a sandstorm in Egypt.
Johns also manages to get a dig in at his critics on page 96
where “Editor’s Cockpit” continues “Perhaps those readers who last year went
off at the deep end about certain of our editorials in connection with the
re-equipment of German air squadrons, will, now that the Jagdstaffel
Richthofen is once more on the wing, take back their
impetuous accusations. “Alarmist” and
“Scaremonger” were two popular ones. And
will the two newspapers who mentioned me by name, at the same time uttering
coarse guffaws, admit that they were wrong?
They will not. A fat lot I
care. We were the first to say it, but
we should not have said it had we not been sure of our facts. We have our own sources of information, and
they are not the regular newspaper channels.
W. E. J.”)
Page 65 – Holidays by Air
(Following on from last months ‘Editor’s Cockpit’ when W. E. Johns said he was going to
write about holidays)
Page 68 – Doubts About the Seadrome – William Courtenay
Page 71 – Manfred von Richthofen – Ernst
Udet (Translated by Claud
W. Sykes)
(“A Necessary Answer to an Incredible Slander on the Dead Hero
of the Air”
In this fascinating article, Udet
answers criticism of von Richthofen and speaks out about
his true heroism)
Page 73 – Our Royal Family and the Air – Pauline Gower
Page 74 – Three Great Cannucks – Edward
Green
(A brief run down of the careers of
the three Canadian pilots featuring in Portraits for Posterity for their Civil
Aviation)
Page 75 – Portraits for Posterity (Nos. 11, 12 and 13) – Walter E.
Gilbert, Wilfred Reid and Clennel H. Dickens
Page 76 – An Aeroplane for £50 – Captain A. V. C. Douglas
(This article is about a De Havilland Humming Bird – D.H. 53 –
which the author bought for only £50.00)
Page 78 – Pioneers of Safety – Men who braved death to give us the
parachute – J. Carmichael Earl (W E Johns son)
Page 79 – Memories of “55” – W. E.
Johns (By request)
This article is just the best article I have read in Popular Flying
Magazine.
Johns talks about his experiences before he was shot down on 16th
September 1918
– poignant
and astonishing, it should be read by all fans of his work.
It has been reproduced on the Internet here
http://members.optuszoo.com.au/aheyes40/family/ach/wej.html
More details and photos relating to Johns being shot down can be
found here
http://webspace.webring.com/people/qm/major_snowdon/galmisc/johnswarmiss.html
Pages
80 and 81 – Memories of “55” –
W. E.
Johns (Continued from
Page 79)
Page 82 – The Merchant Balloonist of Bishopsgate
– by R. O. – S.
Pages 84 and 85 –
The Centre Pages – Naval Co-Operation – The Fleet-Air Exercises and a picture
from Greece
Page 86 – Flying
Wires – News from All Quarters
Page 89 – Under the
Windstocking
(“Letters
to the Editor”)
Page
90 – A Flying Scale Model. The S. E. 5
Page 93 – The Last
Drop – Complete Short Story – John Templer
Page 100 – Told on
the Tarmac
Page 102 – Memories
of “55” – W. E. Johns
(Continued from Page 81)
Between Pages 104
and 105 is an original postcard to send for a Free Copy of the book “1934
ACHIEVEMENTS”
Page 110 – Aviation
Bookshelf
(Two
W. E. Johns books are featured – “The Air V.C.’s” and “The Black Peril” – neither
are “reviewed” as such)
Also on Page110 –
Memories of “55” – W. E. Johns
(Continued from Page 102)
Page 112 – 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
Click here to see a much larger picture of the cover artwork – the artist is W.E. Johns
The picture is titled
“Well Away”
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