Also an interesting topic!
Fascinating!
I seem to be seeing views and experiences with these publications virtually identical to my own.b
Also an AE/AI and AM reader since Vol 1 Issue 1 - never Flypast - but gave up on AI for the same reasons stated above? It seemed to became a trade journal.
I still take AM and now also take 'The Aviation Historian' (TAH) which is as close to the closed AE Quarterly as you can get, but bemoan the loss of the mix of current and historic which AI gave in a monthly, and I won't take a weekly like Flight.
Also take specialist journals like Cross and Cockade and Prop Swing (SVAS).
And yes I use the Internet widely, inc. Social Media, but a good printed journal is hard to beat.
Mick Oakey and Co. @ TAH seem to be able to blend and use the different media channels well and understand that need, but I don't feel the mainstream hard copy publishers are there yet.
They have a wealth of archival material they could start to release - will they?
Ahhh! I am not alone...