November
1937
Volume
6 Number 8 (68 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 425 to page 484 (60 pages)
Page 427 – An Advert for Airports Limited
(“We have pleasure in announcing that in
accordance with the new policy of the Company, no landing fees will be charged
to private owners of aircraft when landing at Gatwick or Gravesend”)
Page 428 – Contents Page
(The contents page is by an advert for Air France)
Page
430 – Dawn Patrol – A photograph of a Hawker Demon of No. 64 Squadron,
silhouetted against a dawn sky during recent exercises.
Page
431 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W. E. Johns
(Not
subtitled – Johns goes into some detail about a recent holiday in France and
says he went to the pictures there and saw a graphic film about the bombing of
Shanghai – “War isn’t war any longer.
It is just wholesale carnage, the turning of a town into a vast
slaughter house. What have these poor
devils of Chinese done, whose mangled remains I saw being forked into carts
like so much manure?”. “I’ll tell you
this. Conscription or no conscription,
I shall never drop another bomb – unless it be on the Japanese war-lords’ headquarters. And I would do, at this moment, with the
greatest possible satisfaction, for even now, when I close my eyes, I can still
see that dreadful picture of Shanghai.”)
Page
433 – King’s Cup Air Race - 1937
(“The
sixteenth race has been flown and won”)
Page 434 – Lessons of the Atlantic Flights – by “Atlantis”
(“A
memorable and magnificent accomplishment has just been completed by pilots of
Imperial Airways. This is the conquest
of the Atlantic Ocean by air – the last great air route which for nearly 20
years has both attracted the adventurous and defied subjection. The completion of ten crossings between
England and America via the hazardous direct route by those two courageous
Commanders Capt. A. S. Wilcockson and Capt. G. J. Powell and their men, is the
most solid triumph of which civil aviation can yet boast.” The picture that accompanies this article
shows a Liner that looks remarkably like the “Titanic”. This is the “Aquitania” which was launched
exactly a year and a week after the “Titanic” sank on 14th April
1912)
Pages
438 – Trans – Canada – The story behind the trans-Canada air mail – Edward
Green
Page
442 – Haven of the War Birds – W. J. Boylhart
(A
fascinating article about the Jarrett Museum of World War History, on a large
New Jersey farm in the United States)
Page 445 – War Birds on Parade (2) – How many can you name? - Six glossy black and white photographs of aircraft from the Great War
(“No prize is offered for correct solutions,
but the Editor will present a book to the reader who sends in the first correct
list. The Editor’s decision must be
final. Last month’s list: (1) S.E. 4;
(2) D.H. 3; (3) Sopwith Bulldog; (4) Hamble Baby; (5) Westlake Wagtail; (6)
Grain Griffin.)
Page
446 – Planes and Personalities – by “Observer”
Page 448 – So That Fools May Fly – W. R. A.
Walters
(An
article about various flying inventions)
Page 450 – Erich Loewenhardt – Pour le Merite – German Ace – John C. Hook
(“Loewenhardt, with 54 victories to his
credit, ranks third on the list of German Aces and was at 20 years of age on of
the youngest recipients of the Pour le Merite.”)
Page
452 – An Artist who Foresaw the Air Raid
(Three
futuristic pictures by the artist Albert Robida, born in Spain in 1848, but who lived and worked in Paris, who
painted aerial wars in 1869)
Page
453 – A colour full page advert for Lockheed “Airdraulic” Shock-Absorber Struts
Pages
454 and 455 – The Centre Pages – Untitled – Five glossy black and white
aviation photographs
Page 456 – “Event Unadorned” – a glossy full page advert for the British Power Boat Company
Page 457 – Modern Aircraft – The Percival “Mew Gull”
Page 458 – Spanish Gold – Charles Kennett
(The Author’s account of going to Spain to
bring a cargo of precious heirlooms back to the safety of England)
Page 461 – Bristol “Blenheim” Bombers in the Royal Air Force
(“The first of the new type aircraft to come
into service in considerable numbers is the “Bristol” Blenheim Bomber, and its
phenomenal speed – approaching 300 m.p.h. – and exceptionally high performance
have set a new standard that is altering the whole conception of air
operations)
Page 462 – National Gliding Contests, 1937
Page 464 – Flying Wires – Brief News from Far and Near
Page 466 – Squadron Crests of the Royal Air Force – Fourth Series
Page 468 – Slipstream
Page 472 – Aviation Bookshelf
(Three books are reviewed – one is “Biggles Flies West” by Capt. W. E. Johns
who says
“It was good fun writing this story, but it
gave me a crack to turn up £30, to buy a doubloon to see what this
not-so-common coin was like.
Stop me and I’ll let you have a look at
it”.)
Page 484 – The Buyers’ Log
Inside Back Cover – Advert for Minors cigarettes and the British Aviation Insurance Co. Ltd
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to see a much larger picture of the cover artwork – the artist is Howard Leigh
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