Interesting topic.
I stopping buying magazines here in the late nineties due to their cost, content and the departure of authors like Green, Gunston and Swanborough. But one British 'magazine' at the time that really impressed me was Twenty First Profile. I have no idea how long it lasted, but it had superb articles on well known and rare aircraft, wonderful photos, colour artwork, cutaways, line drawings (and no advertisements), but I guess these days it can all be found on the net....