Air Stories — page 97: what you’re looking at

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AIR STORIES is to be enlarged, and its price raised to 9d. a copy. The increase in price is being made with great reluctance, but the recent rapid rise in the cost of paper supplies— nearly 50 per cent. in the past six months—has so increased production costs as to make the step unavoidable, At the sate time, the extra 2d. per copy will, by a small margin, more than cover the increased production costs. This difference is too small to allow of a lower selling price than 9d.—a magazine selling at 84d. or 84d. would be unwelcome both to readers and to newsagents—but, in bulk, it will enable us appreciably to enlarge the magazine and to effect a number of those improvements which we have had in mind for some time past, but whose expense we have hitherto been unable to justify. The small surplus arising from the increased selling price will, therefore, be returned to the reader in the form of an enlarged and improved magazine, and, though we realise that the increase in price will be a disappointment to many, we feel confident that all our readers will appreciate our frank explanation of the position and will continue to support the magazine as loyally as they have always done in the past. And they may be sure that just as soon as the cost of paper returns to its normal level so will the price of AIR STORIES at once be reduced to its original figure. S TARTING with next month’s issue, 189 Two Models in One Issue AND now for some indication of what readers of the new AIR STORIES are going to get for their extra two pence a month. In the first place, the greater number of pages will allow of printing more and longer stories and articles, and each issue will contain at least nine or ten separate features of fact or fiction, in addition to all the usual special sections such as the ‘* Here’s the Answer,’’ ‘‘ Contact ’’ and Book Reviews columns. Illustrations, and special sketches such as the ‘‘ Bull- dog Breed ’’ page in this issue, will be more frequent than hitherto, and model aircraft enthusiasts will be pleased to learn of an important improvement in their section of the magazine, by which two famous types of aircraft—a Great War machine and a modern warplane— will be featured together in each issue hereafter. : So much for generalities. Now for details of the contents of the next issue of AIR STORIES, the first to be pub- lished at the new price. An outstanding feature will be a long complete story of an air war over England as it might be waged to-morrow. The time is 1938, and the author, Mr. J. H. Stafford, whose thrilling stories of the R.A.F. in action on the North-West Frontier have made him one of AIR STORIES’ most popular writers. Mr. Stafford is a former member of the Royal CORNICLO® (©