April
1937
Volume
6 Number 1 (61 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 1 to page 56 (56 pages)
Inside Front Cover – Rolls-Royce Advert
Page 2 – Contents Page
(The contents page is by an advert for Wills’s Gold Flake)
Page
4 – Over the Hills and Far Away – A photograph of a Pan American Douglas, with
Mount Aconcagua in the background
Page
5 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(Not
subtitled – Johns talks about his recent holiday abroad and comments on the
various freedoms in Europe
– such as being able to drink alcohol after
10.30 pm. Again, the Editorial is
unusually short, taking up only one page)
Page
6 – Mapping the World by Camera – Air Photography – The Robot Pilot – An Ideal
Survey Plane – Captain C. E. Ward
(“The
probability that a general small-scale air survey of the Empire and the
complete revision by air of the Ordnance maps of the British Isles will be
undertaken in due course is of great importance to aviation. On the technical, commercial and practical
sides there are opportunities for capital, and for personnel to be trained to
deal with one of the most fascinating jobs one can imagine – mapping the world
by camera”
-
I wonder what the author would think of Google Earth?)
Page 10 – A Kirby Kite in the High Veld – P. A. Wills
(The Author is the holder of the British Gliding
Distance Record – 104 miles)
Page
12 – Aeroplanes End Fish Poaching – Edward Green (Our Canadian Correspondent)
(An
account of how aircraft is used to stop Salmon poachers in British Columbia)
Page
15 – Modern Aircraft – The Dart “Kitten”
Page
16 – A Royal “Shoot” – Major J. R. Gould
(An
account of the co-operation between gun battery and aeroplane in 1916 during
the Great War)
Page
18 – Timing Races in the Air – A. G. Reynolds
(Official
Timekeeper of the R.A.C., the Royal Aero Club, and the F.A.I. ,the Federation
Aeronautique Internationale,
Mr.
Reynolds, who is probably the best-known “timer” in the world, has been doing
this work for about twenty years”)
Page
19 – Instruction Then and Now – Captain Duncan Davis
(“When
I first became connected with aviation some two years before the Great War,
the
art of teaching flying as we now know it was almost non-existent ………….”)
Page
20 – The Polish Air Force – A. T. Lutoslawski
(An
interesting article about an Air Force that would be totally destroyed in the
first weeks of September 1939 by the invading Germans)
Page
22 – Flying Wires – Brief News from Far and Near
(No
mention of the Spitfire here)
Page
24 – The Adventures of Two Air Girls – Pauline Gower
(A
short story)
Page
26 – Flying in Ceylon – A. L. N. de Silva
(Following
previous notes on Empire aviation, we are glad to have this first-hand
information about the position in “The Garden of the World”)
Page
27 – More Royal Air Force Crests
Pages
28 and 29 – The Centre Pages – Deck Landing – Old Style
Page 30 – More Flights of Fact
(These pages include, amongst other things “An Air Minded Public School” – An article about Highgate School which has installed various aero engines for the pupils to dismantle)
Page 32 – Design, Performance, Estimation and Flight Testing of Petrol ‘Planes – Part 3 – Airscrew Design and Flight Testing
Page 36 – The Ghost Pilot – Major W. Molesworth
(A supernatural story)
Page 39 – In Lighter Vein
Page 40 – Midland Enterprise
(An account of the Northamptonshire Aero Club at Sywell)
Page 42 – The Aviation Bookshelf
(5 books are reviewed)
Page 45 – Another British Ace
(A signed photo accompanies some details about Capt. Robert Alexander Little, D.S.O. (and bar) D.S.C. (and bar))
Page 47 – An advert for Greys Cigarettes
(A slightly risqué cartoon, showing a woman
in a bath but I particularly like the footnote
“Twenty ordinary cigarettes a day, says a doctor, can do a smoker no harm”)
Page 48 – An advert by John Hamilton Limited publishers for three of their books (none by W.E. Johns)
Page 53 – An advert by Newnes publishers for three of their books including “Steeley Flies Again” by W.E. Johns)
Page 55 – An advert by the Model Aircraft Stores for “Britains’s Breeziest Baby Engine – The Spitfire”)
Page 56 – The Buyers’ Log
Inside Back Cover – Adverts for Player’s Airman Navy Cut tobacco and The British Aviation Insurance Co. Ltd.
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