September
1935
Volume
4 Number 6 (42 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 297 to page 352 (56 pages)
Inside front cover – A Shell Advert
Page 300 – Contents Page
(The contents page is on the same page as a very small untitled photograph of three unnamed bi-planes)
Page
302 – A Very Strange Bird – A photograph of a man-lifting kite going aloft on
Salisbury Plain several years before the Big Fuss started. One of the photographs from our newly
acquired collection (See “Kites” on Page 332)
Page
303 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(Not
Subtitled. “Last month will surely go
down in the records of Civil Aviation as Black July. Not since air transportation became a serious business have there
been so many major crashes in such a short time …….”)
Page
306 – If War Should Come – Colonel George Drew
Page
310 – Scotland Yard 20 Years Hence (or less) – Cecil Bishop (Late of C.I.D.,
New Scotland Yard)
(On
talking about Armed Bank Robbery and the like – “I believe that the only way in
which nations can free themselves from this menace, is by exercising the
greatest care in admitting aliens ……….”)
Page 312 – The Saga of S-K – Edward Green (Our Canadian
Correspondent)
Page
314 – The Recollections of an Air Pioneer – (Continued from last month) – Sir
Alliott Verdon-Roe
(Sir
A.V. Roe, who gave us “Avro”, continues with his recollections of the early
days
“in
which aviation was looked upon as a rather fantastic form of suicide”)
Page
318 – 40’s Third Balloon Strafe – by “McScotch”
(“A
few personalities seen on the tarmac and in the enclosures”)
Page
322 – Flying Wires – Interesting News from all quarters
Pages
324 and 325 – The Centre Pages – Running the Gauntlet(s)! – An illustration by
Frank L. Westley
Page
326 – When the Royal Air Force Flew the Mails – G. A. Flamank
Page
328 – The Heritage of Icarus – by R. O – S.
Page
330 – My Most Thrilling Flight – A. E. Turner
(This
account was not published in 1936 in the book ‘Thrilling Flights’)
Page
331 – Scale Model Aeroplanes versus Model Flying Machines – The other point of
view – C. W. Needham
Page 332 – Kites – J. Carmichael Earl (W. E. Johns son)
Page 333 – The Flight that Failed – Basil C. de Guerin
Page 335 – We should Smile!
Page 337 – Flying with a Dance Band – Jack Hylton
Page 338 – Under the Windstocking
(“Readers’ Correspondence”
One letter says “Richthofen, Manfred von,
Deceased – I have reverend respect for the great airman as a soldier who died
for his cause, together with sincere respect for a worthy foeman of the
British. Would it not be possible,
however, to have all aviation magazines form an agreement not to mention this
particular figure for at least twelve months, thereby giving the general public
a rest from reference to a subject which not only is very threadbare, but which
seems likely to start a new war just where the last one finished”)
Page 339 – A Full Page Photographic Advert for Rolls-Royce “The Best Car in the World”
Page 346 – Aviation Bookshelf
(Books reviewed include “Some Milestones of Aviation” and “The Raid” both by W. E. Johns)
The review of “The Raid” is not particularly
politically correct by today’s standards ………
“This is, I confess, without shame, a most unlikely story in which an archaeologist, his niece (the heroine), an R.A.F. officer (the hero), a Russian agent (the villain) get tangled up in Iraq with a lot of Wogs. There is a Sheikh, or course, very dirty and verminous like the real thing. The story was written originally by request as a film scenario, which accounts for the presence of a pretty girl in a place where no self-respecting reptile would stay for five minutes, but political and service difficulties stopped its production”)
Page 349 – Royal Air Force Squadrons, 1935
Page 351 – Amateur Radio and Aviation – The Royal Australian Air Force Wireless Reserve – J. E. Marshall
Page 352 – The Buyers’ Log
Click here
to see a much larger picture of the cover artwork – the artist is unknown
The
picture is titled “40 Squadron’s Balloon Strafe (see page 318)”
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