Have to say that I think flaps to 60 has a very valid point. For many years I had a subscription to ‘Aviation Week and Space Technology’, but dropped that in favour of ‘Flight’ because it was concentrating far too much (for my taste) on rocketry, space exploration etc rather than aeroplanes – sorry ‘airplanes’.
Now FI is going very much the same way. I seriously considered not renewing my subscription last time and think things will have to have changed rather dramatically for me to pay up next time.
It might have been that I was preoccupied at the time, but I scanned the last issue in a matter of minutes and didn’t find an article that I read beyond the first couple of paragraphs.
(I still always start at the back page though. It’s almost a ‘secret handshake’ in a newsagent, isn’t it? [“Ahh, another pilot!”])