Contents

A

Across the Pacific

Advance of the Empire Air Mail

Aerial Mountaineering

Aero Engine, Evolution of

Aero Engines of the Great War

Aerobatics, Art of

Aerodrome Construction

Aeroplane Endurance

Aeroplane Engineering as a Career

Aeroplanes of the Great War (1)

Air Defence Cadets

Air France

Air Mail, Advance of the Empire

Air Mails of the Empire

Air Photography - 1

Air Racing

Air Rescues

Air Routes Across America

Air Taxis

Air Traffic Control

Air Transport in Canada

Air Travel to the Continent

Air Trophies, Famous

Air War on Insects

Aircraft Armament

Aircraft Carrier, Evolution of

Aircraft Electrical Equipment

Aircraft Instruments, How [They] Work

Aircraft Maintenance

Aircraft Markings

Aircraft Which Hover

Airmen, Work of

Airscrews and Their Design

Airscrews, Controllable-Pitch

Airship, Types of

Airships, American

Airships, British

Airships, Construction of Rigid

Airships, French

Airships, How [they are] Flown

Airships, Mooring of

Alcock and Brown

All-Metal Construction

All Types of Aircraft Classified

Altitude Pioneers

America, Air Routes Across

American Airships

American and Canadian Pioneers

Andree, Salomon

Arctic Aviation, Soviet

Armament, Aircraft

Atlantic Weather Forecasts

Australia, First to

Australia’s Civil Aviation

Australian National Hero

Auxiliary Air Force

Aviation in India and Burma

Aviation in Sweden

Avro Anson

(colour plate)

Avro, Designer of the

B

Ball, Captain Albert, VC

Ballooning

Balloons, Kite

Barker, Major W. G., VC

Belgium’s National Air Line

Bird Flight

Bishop, William Avery, VC

Bleriot, Louis

Blind Flying

Blind Flying, Cockpit Equipped for (colour plate)

Boeing B17B Bomber

(colour plate)

Bomber Recognition Silhouettes

Box-Kite, Inventor of

Bristol Aeroplane Company

Bristol Pegasus and Mercury

Britain’s First Aerial Voyages

British Airships

British Airways

British Aviation, Leader of

British Civil Aircraft (1)

British Civil Aircraft (2)

C

Canada, Air Transport in

Canada, Winter Flying in

Canadian and American Pioneers

Catapults for Aircraft

Caterpillar Club

Cayley, Sir George

Certificate of Airworthiness

Chilton Single-Seater

“China Clipper” Service

Circling the Globe

Civil Flying as a Career

[Classification] of Types of Aircraft

Cobham’s Pioneer Empire Flights (1)  

Cobham’s Pioneer Empire Flights (2)

Cobham’s Pioneer Empire Flights (3)

Cody, Samuel F

Comet, De Havilland

Commercial Flying in the USA

Conquest of the North Atlantic

Construction of Rigid Airships

Controllable-Pitch Airscrews

Cub Monoplane

D

De Havilland, Geoffrey

De Havilland Comet

Designer of the Avro

Development of the Bomber

Dramas of Air Rescues

Duration Type Model Aeroplanes

E

“Eagle”

East of the Baltic

(Finnish aviation)

Electrical Equipment, Aircraft

Empire, Routes of

Endurance, Aeroplane

Everest, Over, by Air

Evolution of a British Aircraft Carrier  

Evolution of the Aero Engine

Evolution of the Fighter

Experiments, Great Air

Experiments with Ornithopters

F

Fairey Battle

Famous French Partnerships

Famous German Airship Flights

Father of British Aeronautics

Ferdinand, Count von Zeppelin

Fight Against Fog

Fighter, Evolution of the

Fighter Design

Fighter Squadron Markings

(colour plate)

Filling the World With Amazement

Finland’s Airways

First Air Meeting at Rheims

First Aerial Voyages

First Aviator to Fly the Channel

First British Pilot

First English Aeronaut

First Man to Study Gliding

(Lilienthal)

First Powered Aeroplane

First to Australia

Fixed Wing Machines

Fleet Air Arm

Flight of the “Eagle”

Flights of Fancy

Floatplanes and Flying Boats

Flying Boat, Short Empire

Flying Boats and Their Work

Flying Fitness, Testing

Flying in New Zealand  

Fog, Fight Against

Fokker, Anthony

Foreword

Formation Flying

French Air Force

French [Air] Services

French Airships

From Balloons to Flying Boats

G

Geoffrey de Havilland

German Air Force

German Airship Flights, Famous

Germany’s Air Lines

Gipsy Designs

Gliding, Modern Soaring Flight

Graeme-White, Claude

“Graf Zeppelin”, Second

Great Air Experiments

H

Handley Page 42

Handley Page Ltd

Hargrave, Lawrence

Hawker, Harry

Hawker Hind

(colour plate)

Henson, William

Henson’s Proposed Aeroplane

(colour plate)

Hinkler - The Brilliant Navigator

Holland’s Famous Designer-Pilot

Homing Radio

How Aircraft are Designed

How Aircraft Instruments Work

How Airships are Flown

How an Aeroplane Flies

How Bird’s-Eye Views are Used

How Maps are Made

“Hurricane”

I

India and Burma, Aviation in

Influence of Air Racing

Insects, Air War on

International Service Markings

(colour plate)

Into the Stratosphere

Inventor of the Box-Kite

“Italia”  

Italian Air Force

Italian Enterprise

J

Japanese Air Force

Jersey Airways

Jones, Squadron Leader Ira, DSO

K

Kestrel, and Merlin

Kingsford-Smith, Sir Charles

Kite Balloons

KLM

L

Landing Speed Problem

Leader of British Aviation

Learning to Fly - 1

Lighting the Modern Airport

Lilienthal, Otto

Lindbergh, Charles A.

Link Trainer

London-Manchester Race

Luftwaffe

Lunardi, Vincent  

Lunardi’s Second Balloon

(colour plate)

M

McCudden, James Byford, VC

“Macon”, US Airship

(colour plate)

Maintenance, Aircraft

Mannock, Major Edward, VC

Maps, How Made

Mercedes-Benz

(engine)

The “Mercury”

(colour plate)

Mercury and Pegasus, Bristol

Merlin and Kestrel

Meteorology, “Solid”

Miles Magister Monoplane

(colour plate)

Model Aeroplanes, Duration Type

Model Petrol-Driven Aeroplanes

Modern Aero Engines (1)

Modern Aero Engines

(colour plate)

Modern Soaring Flight

Mollison, James Allan

Montgolfier Brothers

Moore-Brabazon, Col J T C

Mooring of Airships

Moving Wing Flight

N

Navigation, Principles of

New Guinea Gold

New Zealand, Flying in

“Norge”

North Atlantic, Conquest of

Norway’s Airways

Novel Uses of the Aeroplane

O

Originator of Light Aircraft

Ornithopters, Experiments with

Over Everest by Air

Over the Alps

(Swissair)

Overseas Air Fleets

P

Pagaentry in the Air

Pan-American Airways

Parachute, Pioneers of the

Parachute Landings

Patrol Boats of the Air

Pegasus and Mercury, Bristol

Percival Aircraft Types

Performing Practice Circuits

Pilotless Aircraft

Pioneers of Large Aircraft

Pioneers of the Parachute

Poland’s Achievement

Principles of Navigation

Progress to Solo Flying

Pterodactyl Aircraft

(colour plate)

The Pupil Becomes a Pilot

“Puritan” (Goodyear Airship)

R

RAF Operations Overseas

RAF Pilots, Training

RAF Ranks, Badges and Flags

(colour plate)

RAF Reserve

RAF Squadron Badges

RAF, Trainers of

RAF, Training Boys in the

Railway Air Services

Reaction Propulsion

Reading Weather Charts

Reconnaissance Aircraft

Refuelling During Flight

Representative British Aircraft (1)

Representative British Aircraft (2)

Representative Types of Continental and American Aircraft (1)

Representative Types of Continental and American Aircraft (2)

Rhodes-Moorhouse, W. B., VC

Rigging an Aeroplane

Robinson, William Leefe, VC

Rocket Propulsion

Rolls, Hon. Charles S.

Rolls Royce Merlin and Kestrel

Romance of Ballooning

Romance of the Wright Brothers

Routes of the Empire

Round the World in Eight Days

Royal Aircraft Establishment

Royal Canadian Air Force

Royal Dutch Air Lines

Russian Air Force

S

Sadler, James

Santos-Dumont, Alberto

Saro Aircraft

Schneider Trophy

“Scylla” (Imperial Aiways)

(colour plate)

Seaplanes and Their Work

Second “Graf Zeppelin”

Short Brothers

Short Empire Flying Boat

Short-Mayo Aircraft

Short-Mayo Aircraft

(colour plate)

Showman Who Turned Aviator

Singapore’s Great Airport

Sizes of Civil and Military Aircraft

“Solid” Meteorology

Solo Flying

Some Famous Air Trophies

Sounding the Skyways

South Africa’s Air Routes

Soviet Arctic Aviation

Spectacular Record Breaker

“Spirit of St Louis”

Stratosphere, Into the

Stringfellow, John

Survey in the Empire

Surveying New Airways

Sweden, Aviation in

Swissair

Swissair DC-2 (colour plate)

T

Test Pilot, Work of

Tests of Flying Fitness

Traffic Rules of the Airways

Trainers of the RAF

Training Boys in the RAF

Training Machines

Training RAF Pilots

Tricycle Undercarriages

Triumph and Tragedy in the Arctic

Two-Seater Tipsy

Types of Airship

Tytler, James

U

Unconventional Aircraft

Unconventional Aircraft

(colour plate)

United States’ Air Force

V

Verdon-Roe, Sir Alliott

von Zeppelin, Count Ferdinand

W

Warneford VC, Flight Sub-Lieutenant

Weather Charts

Welding in Aeronautics

Wing Loading Problems

Wings Over the Forest

Winter Flying in Canada

Work of Airmen

Work of the Test Pilot

World-Wide French Services

“Winnie Mae”

Wright Brothers