August
1935
Volume
4 Number 5 (41 of 88)
AIR TRANSPORT NUMBER
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 233 to page 296 (64 pages)
Page 238 – Contents Page
(The contents page is on the same page as a very small untitled photograph of three unnamed bi-planes)
Page
240 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(Subtitled
“Flying By Numbers” where Johns talks about his disappointment with the recent
Air Display (at Hendon) and then “The S.B.A.C. Show where Johns praises it and
says “I made an unkind remark about the S.B.A.C. some time ago. I take it back ………..” However, he doesn’t actually say was
“S.B.A.C.” stands for so I can’t tell you.)
Page
243 – Hendon Highlights – With our casual cameraman in the Colindale enclosure
– some photographs
Page
244 – The Recollections of an Air Pioneer – Sir Alliott Verdon-Roe
(“Who,
on June 8th 1908, made the first short aeroplane flight in England”
–
Sir
A.V. Roe gave us “Avro” and talks in this article about how he wrote to Wilbur
Wright in 1906 and then in 1909 cycled to “Le Mans” to meet him and was shown
over his famous biplane and given a lift in his car back into town)
Page
249 – The Royal Air Force Display
(“A
few personalities seen on the tarmac and in the enclosures”)
Page
250 – Sky Lines over Europe – A Brief Description of the European National
Airways – W. Carmichael Earl
(W.
E. John’s son)
(Page
256 features an illustration of Martineau’s Airway Time Table – A Map of
Principal European Routes
Page
257 – Quo Vadis? There is an Air Way to
Every Important City and Many Holiday Resorts in Great Britain
Page
259 – Shaw – Formerly Lawrence of Arabia – Basil Jones
(An
article by a man who served with “Shaw” in the Royal Air Force)
Page
262 – The Flying Flea – An account of the most widely discussed aeroplane of
recent years
The
Pages between 264 and 265 – The Centre Pages – Shell Chart of Aircraft Markings
of All Nations
(These
four pages are unnumbered but show various nations markings.
It is surprisingly to note that Finland have
a swastika as well as Germany)
Page
265 – Can you Smile?
Page
266 – Flying Wires – News from all quarters
Page
268 – Down in the Forest – The true story of my adventures whilst flying in
Africa – Mrs. J. M. Keith Miller
(This
frank account of a long-distance flight that failed should give those who
hanker for this sort of thing food for thought)
Page
272 – My Most Thrilling Flight – “55” – Another Episode – “Two of our machines
failed to return” – F. E. Nash
(This
account was not published in 1936 in the book ‘Thrilling Flights’)
Page
274 – N.C.O. Pilot – Sergt. - Pilot E. J. Elton
Page 276 – Early Bird – A Short Story by J. E. Gurdon
Page 278 – Under the Windstocking
(“Readers’ Correspondence”)
The centre of this page features “The Dying
Aviator” one of the R.F.C. Rhymes)
Page 296 – The Buyers’ Log
(Again,
no John Hamilton advert on the back cover)
Click here
to see a much larger picture of the cover artwork – the artist is Eric Duncan
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