June
1935
Volume
4 Number 3 (39 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 113 to page 168 (56 pages)
Page 118 – Contents Page
(The contents page is on the same page as an untitled photograph of nine bi-planes)
Page
119 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(In
an unsubtitled editorial Johns talks about the fear of war that is growing “I
don’t want war; you don’t want war; no common citizen I know in any country in
Europe wants war. Yet we are being
headed straight for it. The Government
knows it. Every Government in Europe
knows it. Every man in the world who
has any sort of brain to think with, knows it.
But the war-makers won’t be killed.
I shall be; and so will you. Yet
we stand for it. What can we do about
it? Nothing! Not a thing …….”)
Page
121 – German Air Force Equipment – What the Pilots of the New Circuses will fly
– by our Special Correspondent
Page
124 – Premonition – A True Tale of 1916 – C. Riley
Page
127 – Holidays by Air (Continued) – Majorca and N. Africa – W.
E. Johns (uncredited)
(This
article includes photos of Johns and “Mrs W.E.J”. In fact, Johns was not married to Doris, his partner)
Page
130 – Training Without Power – Andrew R. Boone
“(United
States Navy Pilots now begin Ab Initio Training in Gliders”)
Page
132 – My Most Thrilling Flight – Mrs. Keith Miller
(This
account was not published in 1936 in the book ‘Thrilling Flights’)
Page
134 – Aviation and the Collector – by R. O.-S.
Page 137 – The Passarola – A quaint early
Portuguese effort to achieve Flight
Page 138 – Flying Wires – News from All Quarters
Pages
140 and 141 – The Centre Pages – Off Singapore – An illustration by Frank L.
Westley
Page
142 – Recollections and Reflections on Historical Inaccuracy – A. J. Insall
Page
146 – Portraits for Posterity (No. 14) – Captain W. G. Barker, V.C., D.S.O.,
M.C.
(Major
(he was later promoted) Barker survived the War with 52 confirmed victories.
He
was killed whilst flying a civil aeroplane in Canada on March 12, 1930)
Page
148 – A photograph of some of the winning models in the recent “Skybirds”
Competition, with the prizes they won
(You
will notice two copies of “The Air V.C.’s” by W.E.
Johns)
Page
149 – “Oupe F’r T’Coope” – The Coupe de France – W. Rigby
(“An
Eyewitness Account of the Parisian International Model Aircraft Competition”)
Page 150 – Under the Windstocking
(“A Reply to Udet” – F. J. Hunt writes in to
take issue with points made by Udet in the May 1935 edition)
Page 152 – The Crusader – A Complete Story by Wilfrid Tremellen
Page 155 – An Advert for Castrol XXL and De Havilland aircraft
Page 160 – Aviation Bookshelf – Astronautics – The First British Book on Rocket Flight
Page 168 – The Buyers’ Log
On
the back cover the usual John Hamilton advert is no longer there ……….
Click here
to see a much larger picture of the cover artwork – the artist is unknown
The picture is
titled “The Eternal Question”
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