September
1936
Volume
5 Number 6 (54 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 281 to page 332 (52 pages)
Page 282 – Contents Page
(The contents page is on the same page as a small
photograph of a biplane with the caption
“Egyptian Flight. Refueling in the Desert”.
On the same page is a John Hamilton book advert for 11 books but not including any of W. E. Johns books)
Page
284 – Things That Have Come. A
remarkable picture of the Zeppelin Hindenburg, like a beam of light as she
passes seemingly between the towers of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York
City, after taking off from Lakehurst
Page
285 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(Subtitled
– The State of Things to Come – “I am doing my day’s good turn. When the poor wretch who is sitting in this
chair in the year 2936 editing the September issue of the 1005th
volume of Popular Flying, wants to find an excuse for the failure of Britain to
get into the first three in the Annual Interplanetary Race round the Solar
System, he will be bound to make some passing comment on the beginning of the
decline and fall of the British Empire through the failure of its leaders to
grasp the importance of Air Power.
Then, instead of having to work it out for himself, all he will have to
do will be to turn up his back numbers and find it is already written for him”)
Page
288 – Wings Over Northern Europe – Jhr. Fr. Van Reighersberg Versluys
(“A
delightful twenty hours flight by Regular Air Services from Holland through the
Border States of the Baltic and Scandinavia”)
Page
292 – After Richthofen’s Death – A Brief Account of the Subsequent History of
the Richthofen Squadron –
by
“Vigilant”
(On
page 293 there is a photograph of “Richthofen’s Albatros as it is preserved
to-day in the Luftfahrt Museum, Berlin.
In this machine he scored most of his victories”)
Page
297 – The Naming of Aircraft – W. R. A. Walters
Page
298 – China Spreads her Wings – Harrison Forman
Page
302 – The Deicke Aeroplane
(“Some
time ago we published a photograph of a new light-weight, low-priced aeroplane
which has just been produced in Germany.
It resulted in a large number of enquiries which we were unable to
answer because the details of the machine had not reached us. We at once endeavoured to repair this by
getting into touch with Herr Arthur Deicke, of Munich, the inventor, and we are
now able to give the following particulars”)
Page
304 – Flying Wires – Interesting News from all quarters
(These
brief news items again make no reference to the very first Spitfire flight
which took place on 5th March 1936)
Pages
306 and 307 – The Centre Pages – “Birdmen – Then and Now”
Page 308 – Under the Hood – G. I. Myers and Howard Kaster
(“Reactions of the student to modern instrument and beam flight training as practised in the United States”)
Page 312 – The First Solo Flight from the Philippines to China – Charles Kennett
Page 314 – Animal Aviators – F. H. Maberley, M.D.
Page 316 – Modern Aircraft – The Miles “Falcon”
Page 317 – Aviation Bookshelf
Page 318 – The Silk Stocking - A Short Story – Reginald Sunnucks
Page 320 – Under the Windstocking
(“Readers’ Correspondence, conducted by the
Editor
– The letters include “How Major McCudden, V. C. was killed” by a reader, who does not want his name published, who was actually standing on the aerodrome at the time and witnessed the whole thing. He was taking off on a routine flight when his engine failed and he crashed into a wood. He wasn’t killed outright but died shortly afterwards)
Page 329 – An advert for a Cessna C34, four-seat, high performance cabin monoplane
(This is the first reference to a Cessna that I have seen)
Page 332 – The Buyers’ Log
On the inside back cover there is a particularly interesting advert by Newnes for ‘Sky High’, ‘Steeley Flies Again’ and mentioning that ‘Murder by Air’ is coming soon. The advert also mentions ‘Blue Blood Runs Red’ being published under the nom-de-plume of ‘John Earlie’. In fact the spelling of the surname when published was “Early”.
The advert is accompanied by a (now fairly well known) caricature of W. E. Johns by RICH.
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to see a much larger picture of the cover artwork – the artist is Eric Duncan
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