June
1937
Volume
6 Number 3 (63 of 88)
AIR
TRAVEL AND HOLIDAY NUMBER
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 113 to page 172 (60 pages)
Page 116 – Rolls-Royce Advert
Page 118 – Contents Page
(The contents page is by an advert for British Airways)
Page
120 – Modern Equipment – A photograph of the recently opened terminal building
at Jersey Airport
Page
121 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(Not
subtitled – Johns talks about the future of aviation and how use of steam ships
and trains will decline as everyone travels by air – very prophetic –This
Editorial is back to three pages)
Page
124 – Fly Over Britain – Capt. C. E. Ward
(“Big
Air Line Programme for Coronation Year”)
Page 127 – Aerodrome Holidays
(“Have you ever thought of combining learning to
fly with the annual respite from the office?)
Pages
130 – A Holiday in the Sun – by W. E. J.
(Johns
talks about his holidays in Europe. “At
one time or another I have flown pretty well all over it; I have traversed much
of it, between Dieppe and Stavros, on and in all sorts of craft from motor-cars
to mule. I have also tramped much of it
on the soles of my feet, and this is the way I like best, for it gives one time
to look around and to get to know the people.
And let me say here that the people of Europe are a good crowd, despite
the efforts of poisoned-tongued propagandists who know only of other people by
creatures of their own kidney and do their best to make us hated for a lot of
vacillating, pretentious snobs. Until
the people of the world get together, race hatred will persist because it is
the policy of those who govern us to see that this is so. Never mind why, but it is so.”)
Page
135 – Air Holidays Abroad – by J. Carmichael
(This
article is written by W. E. Johns’
son)
Page
141 – Scandinavian Holiday – By one who has been – and enjoyed it (anonymous author – presumably W.
E. Johns again!)
(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
shoot himself to stop them shooting at him!
He survived, although badly burnt, and made it to hospital.)
Pages
142 and 143 – The Centre Pages – The World on Wings – A Pictorial Record of the
Month
Page 144 – With 47 Squadron in South Russia – E. W. Reynolds
(“Yet
another angle on war flying. This story
told by one of the “other ranks” of life in the “other ranks”, is a classic of
its kind.
It
is absolutely untouched, and rings true in every line. – Ed”)
Page 148 – D.C.2 Movie Stars – Harrison Forman
(An account by the Technical Director for “Lost Horizon” of the making of that film)
Page 150 – Modern Aircraft – The Taylor “Cub”
Page 152 – Flying Wires – Brief News from Far and Near
Page 154 – Under the Windstocking
(“Readers’ Correspondence, conducted by the Editor”)
Page 156 – The Aviation Bookshelf – Air Books of the Month
(4 books are reviewed)
Page 158 – “Clubsidies” – C. A. Nepean Bishop
(“As the primary purpose of a subsidy is to assist flying clubs so that they may be able to train pilots at a charge within reach of the average man or womn, it must be the main principle of such assistance that the business done by the clubs allows a reasonable profit to be made, together with a margin to encourage initiative and expansion, otherwise the scheme defeats its purpose at once”)
Page 172 – The Buyers’ Log
Inside Back Cover – An advert for ‘Classic Curly Cut’ – “The tobacco without a temperament”
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