February
1937
Volume
5 Number 11 (59 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 runs from page 549 to page 604 (56 pages)
Page
552 – Crossing the Bar – A Mediterranean patrol. Hawker Rolls-Royce “Ospreys” over Alexandria Harbour
Page
553 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(Subtitled
– The Airports Question – “Years and years ago one or two far-sighted people
realised that aviation in this country could never become serious business
until someone, somehow, produced planes near towns where aeroplanes could land. They said so, and they were right. And the older I get the more I realise how
right they were”)
Page
555 – This Aerodrome Business – R. Ashley Hall
(Chairman, Aerodrome Owners’ Association)
Page
559 – Modern Aircraft – The Heston “Phoenix”
Page
560 – Airport Lighting – Capt. C. E. Ward
(“Scientific
lighting at an airport is an absolute necessity if public transport is to be
conducted with safety and regularity”)
Page
564 – “Det var frammande flygare i Nordnorge.
Ryska krigsfartyg och flygare nargangna” – What’s Going On? – Mark R.
Rascovick
(“This
account of strange happenings over Scandinavia has been sent to us by a Swedish
correspondent, Mr. M. R. Rascovick,
who
forwards also a number of newspaper clippings, of which the above are examples,
to show how much concern is being felt
about
the mysterious ghost-flyers of the North”)
Page
566 – Economy with Efficiency
(“The
London Gliding Club’s Headquarters”)
Page
567 – The Aeroplane and Architecture – by C. N.
(“Candid
Criticism of an International Architect”)
Page
569 – Army Co-Operation, 1916 – Major J. B. Gould
(A
brilliant account of how the author (the pilot) and his gunner were sent out to
spot a new heavy German gun and how they were shot down and both badly wounded
in the process. But they photographed
the gun and in due course it was put out of action)
Page
571 – Flying Films
(Three
stills from the film “Lost Horizon” - or ‘Lost Horizons’ as the article
calls it)
Page
572 – War Flying Adventure in Russia – C. E. Buck
(An
account of fighting with the “White Russians” against the Red Russian
“Bolshevic menace which threatened them”.
The author’s plane is forced to land and his pilot was “bayoneted to
death before my eyes”. The article
details the author’s experiences as a prisoner until he was repatriated)
Page
575 – Flying Wires – News in Brief from Far and Near
(One
item of news of interest is
“Danger
signal. During 1933-34 Japan imported
from Australia 45,273 tons of iron-ore.
In the year 1934-1935 the figure jumped to 250,000 tons”)
Pages
576 and 577 – The Centre Pages – Bird Flight – “Wonderful Photographic Studies
in a New Book”
Page
580 – Naval Eight – (Concluded from last month)
(This
advert features a caricature of the author similar to the one of W.
E. Johns used in a previous edition of ‘Popular
Flying’ )
Click here
to see a much larger picture of the cover artwork – the artist is Howard Leigh
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