POPULAR FLYING MAGAZINE � ISSUE 1 (0F 88) (original) (raw)
OCTOBER 1932
Volume 1 Number 7� (7 of 88)
This issue of Popular Flying magazine features the �Biggles� story
�A Battle of Flowers
Contents
This issue runs from page 369 to page 424 (56 pages)
Page 370 � Contents Page
(The contents page has now move to a page on the left rather than a page on the right)
Page 373 � The Editor�s Cockpit � W. E. Johns
(Subtitled � Wanted � A Cheap Light Plane)
Page 375 � Control Tower Calling � Arthur Cave
Page 378 � Aircraft Noise � E. N. B. Bentley
Page 380 � My Most Thrilling Flight � Major Charles G. Barker
(This account was published in 1936 in the book �Thrilling Flights� as the 8thof 20 accounts)
Page 383 � Planes of History � The Bristol Fighter
Page 384 � Darkest Africa Filmed from the Air � with Cobham to Lake Kivu
(Page 385 features a photograph of two bare breasted African ladies - surprising in a 1930�s publication)
Page 386 � A Battle of Flowers � A �Biggles� Story � William Earle
This Biggles story continues on page 387 and 410
The illustrations are by Howard Leigh.
William Earle was, of course, a pseudonym for W. E. Johns, his first names being William Earl (without the �e�)
In August 1932 this story was published in the first Biggles book � �The Camels are Coming� with a slight name change � it became �THE Battle of Flowers� rather than �A Battle of Flowers�.
Page 388 � The Empire Learns to Fly � Aviation in Australia � Capt. C. E. Ward
Page 390 �With Spurs On � A Short Story � Oliver Way
Page 392 � This Months News in Pictures
Page 394 - Knights of the Air � Major Francesco Baracca
Pages 396 and 397 - The Centre Pages � an illustration by Howard Leigh � �Trapped�
Page 399 � Falcons of France � A Thrilling Serial of War in the Air � Charles Nordhoff and J. N. Hall
Page 404 � Ticket to Clacton!
Page 406 � Collecting Flown Covers � A Profitable Hobby � T. S. Denham
Page 408 � Did You Know? � A Collection of Interesting Aeronautical Facts
Page 412 � A School Model Aeroplane Club � F. W. Stuckey
Page 415 � Told on the Tarmac
Page 416 � Motor Mutterings � �Janus�
Page 419 � A full page advert for MG cars
Page 420 � Round the Schools and Clubs
Page 423 � The Buyers� Log � Aircraft for Sale � Where to Fly � Opportunities
Page 424 � The Aviation Bookshelf � New Books for the Air Library
(This new feature reviewed five books.� At the end of the page was a three-panel cartoon)
Inside the back cover there is a John Hamilton advert for 11 of their books including Wings: Flying Adventures and Fighting Planes and Aces, respectively edited and written by Flying Officer (as he is credited) W. E. Johns.� Also included is The Pictorial Flying Course by H. M. Schofield and W. E. Johns and again states that back issues of the first two issues of Popular Flying Magazine are available �price 8d per copy, post free�.
Click here to see a much larger picture of the cover artwork � the artist is uncredited
