June
1936
Volume
5 Number 3 (51 of 88)
This issue of Popular Flying magazine features NO “Biggles” story. The last “Biggles” story was published in the May 1934 issue
This issue of Popular Flying magazine contained a free supplementary print illustrated by Howard Leigh
The
Hawker “Fury” – Roll-Royce “Kestrel” Engine
Contents
This issue runs from page 113 to page 168 (56 pages)
Page 116 – Contents Page
(The contents page is on the same page as a
small photograph with the caption
“A nice model “Bulldog” sent to us by a reader”)
Page
118 – Confidence Needed Here – An American transport aeroplane gives
sight-seers a bird’s-eye view of Niagra
Page
119 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(Subtitled
“Time Marches On” – Johns criticises the League of Nations for doing nothing
while Mussolini has won his war in Abyssinia (Eithiopia). “A League of Nations. Pah!
Don’t make me sick. A league of
rabbits”. Later on in a very
interesting section headed “What you Want” Johns talks of receiving 5,850
postcard questionnaires and his comments on the statistics are set out on Page
121 above)
Page
122 – The Abyssinian Air Force – Orloff De Wet
Page
124 – Aviation in New Zealand – Southern Alps Service – A Boom Year Ahead – F.
Stewart
Page
127 – Kriegsgefangenenlager (War Prisoners Camp – W.
E. J(ohns)
(Johns
writes about his experiences as a prisoner of war)
Page 131 – Modern Aircraft – No. 4 – The Sikorsky S-42-A
Page
132 – McElroy of “Forty” – F. T. Gilbert (Late of 40 Squadron R.F.C.)
Page
134 – A Forced Landing in Africa – G. D. Flemming
Page
136 – The Future of Britain’s Air Transport – William Courtenay
(Air
Correspondent of the London “Evening Standard”)
Page
138 – A Desert Flying Club – R. Goodwin-Smith
(Gliders,
Thrills, and a Drop into Shark-Haunted Sea)
Pages
140 and 141 – The Centre Pages – “Pretty to Watch” – Smart Work by the United
States Air Corps
Page
142 – Flying Wires – From All Quarters
(These
brief news items again make no reference to the very first Spitfire flight which
took place on 5th March 1936.
They do contain an astonishing amounts of deaths in flying and
parachuting accidents though …… )
Page 144 – The Aviation Bookshelf
(Features a detailed review of ‘The Battle Below’ by Wing-Commander H. N. Wrigley about the history of No. 3 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps and deals in detail with the death of Manfred von Richthofen. The review goes into great detail about the various accounts of the death of ‘The Red Baron’ and makes very interesting reading)
Page 146 – Rubber Motors for the Aeromodellist – D. A. Russell
Page 149 – Smuggling Chinks by Air – Charles Kennett
(“Mr. Kennet’s (sic) first article appeared last month; this is a continuation of it”)
Page 156 – Under the Windstocking
(“Readers’ Correspondence, conducted by the
Editor” –
The letters include another one from ‘Holme
Lacy, Herefordshire’ just a few miles away from where I live.
Captain R. Gordon Berry was the correspondent.
Page 168 – The Buyers’ Log
On the inside back cover is the usual John Hamilton book advert, this time for the “Ace” series. 10 new titles – as well as 23 titles already published. There is then the Airman’s Bookshelf with another 15 titles and finally “announcing The Aircraft Modeller’s Guide”. All 9 of Johns books published to date are included in these 26 titles.
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