November
1938
Volume
7 Number 8 (80
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 381 to page 428 (48 pages)
Page 382 – Contents
Page
(The
contents page is by an advert for Wills’s Gold Flake
cigarettes)
Page 384 – A Beacon for Airmen – A photograph of the notice board
indicating the site and purpose
of Britain’s first tree
beacon planted as a guide for airmen
Page 225 – The Editor’s Cockpit – W.
E. Johns
(For the first time there is no editorial from Johns. Instead there is the following note.
“In view of the uncertainty of the political situation the
Editorial feature which normally appears on this page is for once held
over. The difficulty of writing while
the situation is changing hourly will be appreciated; anything can have
happened by the time these words appear in print. The following letter, however, from a reader
who is in close touch with the Civil Air Guards scheme, should be of as much
interest as anything can be while the atmosphere is full of rumours of war. W. E. J.” The letter that follows
is headed “The C. A. G. – What Will He
Become? – by “Old Timer” and talks of the rumour that nearly 30,000 applications have
been received from people who wish to train as pilots for the Civil Air
Guard. This letter continues onto page
386 and the final paragraph after it is “STOP PRESS” – “While this issue of POPULAR
FLYING is actually on the machines come the news of the Munich settlement. So the world breathes again – slightly hoarse
from holding its breath so long. We have
escaped war, it seems, but at such a cost as only the future will reveal. Still, make no mistake,
the world has had the shock of its life, from the highest to the lowest. (Particularly the highest.) From it all may come a better understanding
between the peoples of the nations who, caught between the cross-fire of a
handful of insane egotists and blundering politicians were likely to become
bomb-fodder. All that remains for the
immediate present is for the so-called statesmen to congratulate themselves
(and soft-soap each other) on getting themselves out of the mess which they
themselves created – a mess which could come as no surprise to readers of this
paper. But they have had their fright,
so they may do better in future. W. E. J.)
Page 387 – The Blind Flying Panel – Wing-Commander G. W.
Williamson
(A run down of the instruments and
controls of current aircraft)
Page 390 – Air Line Development Overseas – Nigel Tangye
(This
article starts by bemoaning the lack of an air service to South America when
both Germany and France have one.
It
then discusses other routes)
Page 395 – The
First British King to Fly – Bladud, Father of King
Lear, Attempted Flight – Harry Maitland
(An account of the legend of the King who constructed wings and
flew before they broke and he fell to his death)
Page 396 – The Yanks are Coming – says
Arch Whitehouse
(If Britain goes to War there will not be enough Atlantic Liners
to take care of the thousands of Americans
who want
to come over and join the Air Force)
Page 398 – Flying for the Spanish (Government) Air Force – Harold
Cosh
(“Mr. Cosh was not a mere bird of passage in Spain. He was there for fourteen months.
No political sympathies are implied by the publication of this
article – Ed.”)
Page 400 –
Monoplane v. Biplane Training – H. M. Schofield
(“The
author of this article, Flight-Lieutenant H. M. Schofield, R.A.F.O. is a
Director of General Aircraft Ltd., and has been with the Company since its
incorporation in 1931, when he was chief test pilot and sales manager. He served in the R.N.A.S. and R.A.F. 1917 to
1929, and was a member of the successful Schneider Trophy Team at Venice in
1927. He was instructor to the Oxford
University Air Squadron in 1928, and chief pilot to National Flying Services
Ltd. in 1930. He won the King’s Cup in
1934 in a Monospar. Flight-Lieutenant
Schofield is at present Manager of No. 18 Elementary and Reserve Flying
Training School, organised and administered for the Air Ministry by General
Aircraft at Fair Oak, Woking”
He was
also the co-author of ‘The Pictorial Flying Course’ published in 1932 where he
wrote the text and Flying Officer W. E. Johns provided the illustrations)
Page 402 – A
Parachute Problem – by “Atlas”
(This article talks about how difficult it is to parachute out
of a plane at high speed and asks if, in an emergency,
there
would be time to lose speed until it was safe enough to bail out)
Pages 404 and 405 – The Centre Pages – War Clouds Over Europe – Types of Machines which, by the time you read
this, may be in the news
Page 406 – Flying
Wires – Air News from all points of the compass
(One
interesting item of news is “The new German Messerschmidt
experimental aeroplane has a reported speed of 440 m.p.h.”)
Page 408 – The Bird
is Gone – Douglas Ross
(In
a follow up article to “The Modern Treasure Hunter Travels by Air” from the August
1938 issue of POPULAR FLYING, the author tells of how he and his team came by a
treasure map of Cocos Island which they had good
cause to believe to be genuine, only to find “the bird is gone” carved in wood
when then got there)
Page 410 – Anyone
Can Fly This Fool-Proof ‘Plane – Andrew R. Boone
(The
author sets outs his experience at flying a Stearman-Hammond
plane)
Page 416 – Model
Topics – by “Airfoil”
(There
is a discussion about the Wakefield Cup Competition here followed by discussion
of “Solid” Scale Models)
Page 417 – An
advert for Shell – “Pioneers of Modern Aviation” – featuring Hubert Latham (the
Frenchman who set up several records in 1909)
Page 418 – Under
the Windstocking
(“Readers’
Correspondence, conducted by the Editor”
This
includes a letter from Wilhelm R. Mann to Mr. B. B. Perry – the author of the
article “Loewenhardt’s Seventh” in the March 1938
issue of Popular Flying – including a copy of his hand written’ thank you’ note
and recalling the time he met him after he was shot down)
Page 424 – Aviation
Bookshelf
(One
book is reviewed – ‘Teach Yourself to Fly’ by Nigel Tangye)
Page 428 – The Buyers’ Log
(This
carries the same Royal Air Force advert for vacancies for air observers and for
pilots as set out in previous months)
Inside Back Cover –
Advert for Royal Seal Blended Virginia (tobacco)
Back Page – “Confidence with
LODGE – The Best Plug in the World”
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