October
1935
Volume
4 Number 7 (43 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 353 to page 408 (56 pages)
Page 356 – Contents Page
(The contents page is on the same page as a small painting of the Clubhouse at Herts and Essex (Flying) Club)
Page
302 – A Short Wave – Length! – A photograph of the new Short R.24/31 Flying
Boat landing on water
Page
359 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(Subtitled
“More Peculiar Peculiarities” – Johns criticises the smug British attitude that
“We are notoriously slow starters, and we make the most ridiculous blunders
(don’t you know), but when we do get goings etc. etc.”. He talks of the blunders that cost a hundred
thousand lives ….. “I helped to shovel eighteen hundred of them into pits
(without the blankets for which their next-of-kins were probably charged),
including seventy-seven of my own machine-gun squadron of seventy-five, in
front of Horseshoe Hill, in Greek Macedonia.
We were sent to take the hill without big guns. Oh yes, they sent guns out to us, but when
they got to Salonika there wasn’t any tackle big enough to lift them out of the
ships. At least, that’s what we were
told ……..”)
Page
362 – An American Tour – A. Hessell Tiltman (Joint Managing Director of
Airspeed Ltd.)
Page
366 – Recollections of an Air Pioneer – (Continued) – Sir Alliott Verdon-Roe
(Sir
A.V. Roe, who gave us “Avro”, continues with his recollections)
Page
370 – Mathy of the Zeppelins – Alfred Cellier
(An
article about Kapitanleutnant Heinrich Mathy,” the best known of those Zeppelin
commanders”)
372
– “Bomb Released, Sir!” – Desmond Nicholas
(“The
bomber is very much in the public eye at the moment, so this short description
of just how the man upstairs works, should be found interesting”)
Page
374 – Aerial Sailing in Germany – by our Special Correspondent on the spot
Page
376 – Days of Test Flying – Flt.-Lt. N. Comper
Page
379 – War in the Air – Illustrated – The War as the Airman saw it – Instalment
1 of newly acquired photographs
Pages
380 and 381 – The Centre Pages – War in the Air (continued from Page 379) –
More War Photographs
Page
382 – Flying Wires – Interesting News from all quarters
Page
384 – Learning to Glide – Donald B. Rae (of the London Gliding Club)
Page
385 – Animal Flight and Motorless Aeroplanes – The Late Eric Stuart Bruce
(“Readers
of Popular Flying will be sorry to learn of the death of our contributor
shortly after he had written this article for us”)
Page
388 – Knowall Denver – A Complete Story – Douglas Hales
Page 390 – We May Laugh!
Page 391 – Under the Windstocking
(“Readers’ Correspondence”
One letter says “….. the suggestion of a
Re-union sounds most attractive. There
is however, one serious drawback, and that is the unfortunate, but frequently
observed fact, that War carries off all the best. Only the dross is left to eat the dinners and brave over the
port. The really interesting Re-union
will be outside the Pearly Gates.
(Yes! I said ‘outside’!). Johns adds his comment – “Not necessarily”)
Page 396 – Modern Aircraft – The Gloster “Gauntlet” –
No. 1 of a new series of brief descriptive articles featuring the most outstanding aircraft of all nations
Page 400 – Aviation Bookshelf
(Headed “Biggles Again” and reviewing “Biggles Flies East” and “Biggles Hits the Trail” both by W. E. Johns)
“When the Editor of Popular Flying went on his holidays and gave me these two books to read he mentioned that ever since Biggles faded out of the pages of Popular Flying, a steady stream of enquiries has been received concerning his possible return. Unfortunately, lack of space forbids his reappearance in these columns, but he takes the stage again in the two above named books which are available at all booksellers and libraries”)
Page 408 – The Buyers’ Log
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