May
1937
Volume
6 Number 2 (62 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 57 to page 112 (56 pages)
Inside Front Cover – Rolls-Royce Advert featuring The Hawker “Hurricane”
Page 58 – Contents Page
(The contents page is by an advert for Wills’s Gold Flake)
Page
60 – Have a Smoke? – An Italian Smoke-Flying Squadron does its stuff. Blotting Out a target.
We
have no smoke-flying units yet, but we have a smoke event at the R.A.F.
Display.
Page
61 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(Not
subtitled – Johns talks about the rush to spend money on building an Air Force
after his earlier calls to do so were rejected, he talks of the death of
Christopher Sprigg in Spain who was the author “Arthur Cave” and talks about
how he was sold a story by “Gordon Harker” published in the March 1937 issue,
only to find that it was not by Gordon Harker at all! –This Editorial covers
two pages)
Page
63 – Air Accidents and Ice – A straight left on a subject of topical interest
and considerable importance – by “Quaestor”
(W.
E. Johns says of this article “On the next page you
will read another bit of intelligent anticipation, which is the modern
expression of prophecy”)
Page 65 – Island Hopping in the West Indies – Joanna Railton
(This account of a flight in the Caribbean is also
of interest for the account of meeting an escapee from the French Penal Colony
in French Guiana, which reminds me of “Papillon” – one of the best films ever
made and my favourite book)
Pages
68 and 69 – The World on Wings
Page
70 - Now For The Atlantic – Jim
Mollison
(“Jim
Mollison holds the record for direct Atlantic crossings, so he knows, more than
any other living man,
the
sort of conditions Atlantic pilots are likely to meet”)
Page
73 – What I Saw in Spain – Nigel Tangye
(An
account of the Spanish Civil War – including an astonishing story of a Russian
pilot who was forced to parachute to safety over enemy troops and pretended to
shot himself to stop them shooting at him!
He survived, although badly burnt, and made it to hospital.)
Page
76 – The Atlantic Air Race – William Courtenay
(An
account of “the greatest Air Race ever organised”)
Page
78 – Scout versus Two Seater – by The Editor (W. E. Johns)
(Johns
five page article is illustrated with pictures drawn by Howard Leigh)
Page
83 – Air Adventure in Abyssinia – C. F. Hayter
(An
article by the pilot of the British Red Cross plane to Abyssinia)
Pages
84 and 85 – The Centre Pages – The Abyssinian Adventure – A Pictorial Record of
Italy’s Abyssinian Campaign
Page 88 – The Future of the Helicopter – M. Louis Breguet
Page 90 – Flying Wires – Brief News from Far and Near
Page 92 – Modern Aircraft – The Lockheed “Electra” 10a
Page 96 – Under the Windstocking
(“Readers’ Correspondence, conducted by the Editor”)
Page 98 – The Aviation Bookshelf
(3 books are reviewed)
Page 100 – Our Jokes Page
Page 104 – Delivering the Goods – J. Jay
(“Air transport will play a major part in rushing prints of the Coronation film to every cinema in the world”)
Page 106 – An advert by Newnes publishers for two of their books, “Sky High” and “Steeley Flies Again” by W.E. Johns
Page 108 – An advert for Ramsgate Aviation Holiday Camp
Page 112 – The Buyers’ Log
Inside Back Cover – An advert for John Hamilton Ltd books – The ever popular “Ace” series – nine new titles plus two other non-fiction titles
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