Contents

I

Index - 40

India and Burma, Aviation in - 39

Influence of Air Racing - 7

Instruction in the Air - 5

International Service Markings (colour plate) - 7

Into the Stratosphere - 1-2

Inventor of the Box-Kite - 36

“Italia” - 33-34

Italian Air Force - 31

Italian Enterprise - 24-25

J

Japanese Air Force - 39

Jersey Airways - 30

Jones, Squadron Leader Ira, DSO - 40

K

Kestrel, and Merlin - 22

Kingsford-Smith, Sir Charles - 32-33

Kite Balloons - 23-24

KLM - 17

L

Landing Speed Problem - 1

Leader of British Aviation - 37-38

Learning to Fly - 1 - 2

Lighting the Modern Airport - 11

Lilienthal, Otto - 24

Lindbergh, Charles A. - 16-17

Link Trainer - 24

London-Manchester Race - 13

Lunardi’s Second Balloon (colour plate) - 27

M

McCudden, James Byford, VC - 36

“Macon”, US Airship (colour plate) - 11

Mannock, Major Edward, VC - 37

Maps, How Made - 12

Mercedes-Benz (engine) - 26

The “Mercury” (colour plate) - 19

Mercury and Pegasus, Bristol - 25

Merlin and Kestrel - 22

Meteorology, “Solid” - 28

Miles Magister Monoplane (colour plate) - 2

Model Aeroplanes, Duration Type - 35

Model Petrol-Driven Aeroplanes - 37

Modern Aero Engines (1) - 17

Modern Aero Engines (colour plate) - 17

Modern Soaring Flight - 2

Modern Soaring Flight (photo supplement) - 2

Mollison, James Allan - 26

Montgolfier Brothers - 6-7

Moore-Brabazon, Col J T C - 4

Mooring of Airships - 11

Moving Wing Flight - 1

N

Navigation, Principles of - 14

New Guinea Gold - 10-11

New Zealand, Flying in - 14

“Norge” - 33-34

North Atlantic, Conquest of - 4-5

Norway’s Aviators - 31-32

Novel Uses of the Aeroplane - 19-20

O

Originator of Light Aircraft - 15

Ornithopters, Experiments with - 30

Over Everest by Air - 3

Over Everest by Air (photo supplement) - 3

Over the Alps (Swissair) - 23

Overseas Air Fleets - 34

P

Pagaentry in the Air - 36-37

Pan-American Airways - 29

Pan-American Airways (photo supplement) - 29

Parachute, Pioneers of the - 29-30

Parachute Landings - 1

Parachute Landings (photo supplement) - 1

Patrol Boats of the Air - 35

Patrol Boats of the Air (photo supplement) - 35

Pegasus and Mercury, Bristol - 25

Percival Aircraft Types - 8

Performing Practice Circuits - 9

Pilotless Aircraft - 36

Pilotless Aircraft (photo supplement) - 36

Pioneers of Large Aircraft - 11

Pioneers of the Parachute - 29-30

Poland’s Achievement - 34

Principles of Navigation - 14

Progress to Solo Flying - 13

Pterodactyl Aircraft (colour plate) - 39

The Pupil Becomes a Pilot - 18

The Pupil Becomes a Pilot (photo supplement) - 18

“Puritan” (Goodyear Airship) - 18

R

RAF Operations Overseas - 27-28

RAF Pilots, Training - 8

RAF Ranks, Badges and Flags (colour plate) - 8

RAF Reserve - 33

RAF Squadron Badges - 31

RAF, Training Boys in the - 28-29

Railway Air Services - 20

Reaction Propulsion - 26

Reading Weather Charts - 17

Reconnaissance Aircraft - 27

Refuelling During Flight - 19

Representative British Aircraft (1) - 24

Representative British Aircraft (2) - 38

Representative Types of Continental and American Aircraft (1) - 12

Representative Types of Continental and American Aircraft (2) - 12

Rhodes-Moorhouse, W. B., VC - 39

Rigging an Aeroplane - 7

Robinson, William Leefe, VC - 19

Rolls, Hon. Charles S. - 16

Rolls Royce Merlin and Kestrel - 22

Romance of Ballooning - 9

Romance of Ballooning (photo supplement) - 9

Romance of the Wright Brothers - 14

Routes of the Empire - 32

Round the World in Eight Days - 2-3

Royal Aircraft Establishment - 36

Royal Canadian Air Force - 32

Royal Canadian Air Force (photo supplement) - 32

Royal Dutch Air Lines - 17

Russian Air Force - 37

S

Sadler, James - 2

Santos-Dumont, Alberto - 15

Saro Aircraft - 28

Saro Aircraft (photo supplement) - 28

Schneider Trophy - 20

“Scylla” (Imperial Aiways) (colour plate) - 17

Seaplanes and Their Work - 2

Second “Graf Zeppelin” - 39

Short Brothers - 10

Short Empire Flying Boat - 34

Short-Mayo Aircraft -1

Short-Mayo Aircraft (colour plate) - 1

Showman Who Turned Aviator - 21

Singapore’s Great Airport - 5

Sizes of Civil and Military Aircraft - 3

“Solid” Meteorology - 28

Solo Flying - 13

Some Famous Air Trophies - 25-26

Sounding the Skyways - 25

South Africa’s Air Routes - 12

South Africa’s Air Routes (photo supplement) - 12

Soviet Arctic Aviation - 9-10

Spectacular Record Breaker - 38-39

Stratosphere, Into the - 1-2

Stringfellow, John - 13

Survey in the Empire - 17-18

Surveying New Airways - 37

Sweden, Aviation in - 22

Sweden, Aviation in (photo supplement) - 22

Swissair - 23

Swissair DC-2 (colour plate) - 23

T

Test Pilot, Work of - 4

Tests of Flying Fitness - 13-14

Traffic Rules of the Airways - 19

Trainers of the RAF - 30

Training Boys in the RAF - 28-29

Training Machines - 25

Training RAF Pilots - 8

Tricycle Undercarriages - 39

Triumph and Tragedy in the Arctic - 33-34

Two-Seater Tipsy - 33

Types of Airship - 4

Types of Airship (photo supplement) - 4

U

Unconventional Aircraft - 39

Unconventional Aircraft (colour plate) - 39

United States’ Air Force - 34

V

Verdon-Roe, Sir Alliott - 7-8

von Zeppelin, Count Ferdinand - 35

W

Warneford VC, Flight Sub-Lieutenant - 21

Weather Charts - 17

Welding in Aeronautics - 28

Wing Loading Problems - 10

Wings Over the Forest - 38

Winter Flying in Canada - 36

Work of Airmen - 32

Work of the Test Pilot - 4

World-Wide French Services - 14

World-Wide French Services (photo supplement)

- 14

“Winnie Mae” - 2-3

Wright Brothers - 14

A

Across the Pacific - 8

Advance of the Empire Air Mail - 22-23

Aerial Mountaineering - 15

Aero Engine, Evolution of - 2

Aero Engines of the Great War - 32

Aerobatics, Art of - 3

Aerodrome Construction - 21

Aeroplane Endurance - 27

Aeroplane Engineering as a Career - 16

Aeroplanes of the Great War (1) - 18

Air Defence Cadets - 37

Air France - 14

Air Mail, Advance of the Empire - 22-23

Air Mails of the Empire - 9

Air Photography - 1 - 5

Air Photography (photo supplement) - 5

Air Racing - 7

Air Rescues - 8

Air Routes Across America - 6

Air Taxis - 21-22

Air Traffic Control - 7

Air Traffic Control (photo supplement) - 7

Air Transport in Canada - 13

Air Travel to the Continent - 11

Air Trophies, Famous - 25-26

Air War on Insects - 22

Aircraft Armament -21

Aircraft Carrier, Evolution of - 33

Aircraft Electrical Equipment - 24

Aircraft Electrical Equipment (photo supplement) - 24

Aircraft Instruments, How [They] Work - 16

Aircraft Maintenance - 26

Aircraft Maintenance (photo supplement) - 26

Aircraft Markings - 15

Aircraft Which Hover - 35-36

Airmen, Work of - 32

Airscrews and Their Design - 13

Airscrews, Controllable-Pitch - 38

Airship, Types of - 4

Airship, Types of (photo supplement) - 4

Airships, American - 31

Airships, American (photo supplement) - 31

Airships, British - 21

Airships, Construction of Rigid - 34

Airships, French - 37

Airships, How [they are] Flown - 18

Airships, Mooring of - 11

Alcock and Brown - 4-5

All-Metal Construction - 6

All Types of Aircraft Classified - 7

Altitude Pioneers - 31

America, Air Routes Across - 6

American Airships - 31

American Airships (photo supplement) - 31

American and Canadian Pioneers - 18

Andree, Salomon - 8-9

Arctic Aviation, Soviet - 9-10

Atlantic Weather Forecasts - 5

Australia, First to - 5-6

Australia’s Civil Aviation - 11-12

Australian National Hero - 32-33

Auxiliary Air Force - 22

Aviation in India and Burma - 39

Aviation in Sweden - 22

Aviation in Sweden (photo supplement) - 22

Avro Anson (colour plate) - 30

Avro, Designer of the - 7-8

B

Ball, Captain, VC - 4

Ballooning - 9

Ballooning (photo supplement) - 9

Balloons, Kite - 23-24

Barker, Major W. G., VC - 38

Belgium’s National Air Line - 15

Bird Flight - 5

Bishop, William Avery, VC - 35

Bleriot, Louis - 18-19

Blind Flying - 15

Blind Flying, Cockpit Equipped for (colour plate)

- 15

Boeing B17B Bomber (colour plate) - 34

Bomber Recognition Silhouettes - 35

Box-Kite, Inventor of - 36

Bristol Aircraft and Engines - 29

Bristol Pegasus and Mercury - 25

Britain’s First Aerial Voyages - 27

British Airships - 21

British Airways - 25

British Airways (photo supplement) - 25

British Aviation, Leader of - 37-38

British Civil Aircraft (1) - 19

British Civil Aircraft (2) - 22

C

Canada, Air Transport in - 13

Canada, Winter Flying in - 36

Canadian and American Pioneers - 18

Catapults for Aircraft - 15-16

Caterpillar Club - 3-4

Cayley, Sir George - 3

Certificate of Airworthiness - 19

Chilton Single-Seater - 26

“China Clipper” Service - 8

Circling the Globe - 36

Civil Flying as a Career - 17

[Classification] of Types of Aircraft - 7

Cobham’s Pioneer Empire Flights (1) - 10

Cobham’s Pioneer Empire Flights (2) - 23

Cobham’s Pioneer Empire Flights (3) - 33

Cobham’s Pioneer Empire Flights (3) (photo supplement) - 33

Cody, Samuel F - 21

Comet, De Havilland - 38

Commercial Flying in the USA - 38

Commercial Flying in the USA (photo supplement) - 38

Conquest of the North Atlantic - 4-5

Construction of Rigid Airships - 34

Controllable-Pitch Airscrews - 38

Cub Monoplane - 20

D

De Havilland, Geoffrey - 12-13

De Havilland Comet - 38

Designer of the Avro - 7-8

Development of the Bomber -28

Dramas of Air Rescues - 8

Duration Type Model Aeroplanes - 35

E

“Eagle” - 8-9

East of the Baltic (Finnish aviation) - 24

Electrical Equipment, Aircraft - 24

Electrical Equipment, Aircraft (photo supplement) - 24

Empire, Routes of - 32

Everest, Over, by Air - 3

Everest, Over, by Air (photo supplement) - 3

Evolution of a British Aircraft Carrier - 33

Evolution of the Aero Engine - 2

Evolution of the Fighter - 23

Experiments with Ornithopters - 30

F

Fairey Battle - 29

Famous Flying Partnerships - 30

Famous German Airship Flights - 27

Father of British Aeronautics - 3

Ferdinand, Count von Zeppelin - 35

Fight Against Fog - 29

Fighter, Evolution of the - 23

Fighter Design - 16

Fighter Design (photo supplement) - 16

Fighter Squadron Markings (colour plate) - 37

“Filling the World With Amazement” - 1

Finnish Aviation - 24

First Air Meeting at Rheims - 15

First Aerial Voyages - 6-7

First Aviator to Fly the Channel - 18-19

First British Pilot - 4

First English Aeronaut - 2

First Man to Study Gliding (Lilienthal) - 24

First Powered Aeroplane - 13

First to Australia - 5-6

Fixed Wing Machines - 7

Fleet Air Arm - 6

Fleet Air Arm (photo supplement) - 6

Flight of the “Eagle” - 8-9

Flights of Fancy - 12

Floatplanes and Flying Boats - 33

Flying Boat, Short Empire - 34

Flying Boats and Their Work - 30-31

Flying Fitness, Testing - 13-14

Flying in New Zealand - 14

Fog, Fight Against - 29

Fokker, Anthony - 34-35

Foreword - 1

Formation Flying - 10

Formation Flying (photo supplement) - 10

French Air Force - 30

French [Air] Services - 14

French [Air] Services (photo supplement) - 14

French Airships - 37

From Balloons to Flying Boats - 10

G

Geoffrey de Havilland - 12-13

German Air Force - 29

German Airship Flights, Famous - 27

Germany’s Air Lines - 20

Germany’s Air Lines (photo supplement) - 20

Gipsy Designs - 35

Gliding, Modern Soaring Flight - 2

Gliding, Modern Soaring Flight (photo supplement) - 2

Glossary of Aeronautical Terms - 40

Graeme-White, Claude - 37-38

“Graf Zeppelin”, Second - 39

Great Air Experiments - 26-27

H

Handley Page 42 - 26

Handley Page Ltd - 11

Hargrave, Lawrence - 36

Hawker, Harry - 38-39

Hawker Hind (colour plate) - 21

Henson, William - 13

Henson’s Proposed Aeroplane (colour plate) - 13

Hinkler - The Brilliant Navigator - 39-40

Holland’s Famous Designer-Pilot - 34-35

Homing Radio - 3

How Aircraft are Designed - 25

How Aircraft Instruments Work - 16

How Airships are Flown - 18

How an Aeroplane Flies - 1

How Bird’s-Eye Views are Used - 14

How Maps are Made - 12

“Hurricane” - 37