Hi Haraka, yes, when the new owners brought out their first "Summer" issue of Aeroplane even some former members of staff thought it had gone quarterly! And the publication-a-month-before-coverdate used to drive me nuts — it was a steady progress of competitive leapfrogging between Aeroplane and Flypast to beat each other on to the newsstands by a day or two, and it went on for decades. During my tenure we never actually got to the stage of routinely bringing an issue out two months before coverdate, e.g. November issue coming out in September — I was always fiercely against that — but it has since become the norm. I always used to suggest, to whichever publishing director happened to be passing through at the time, that we should all take a month off (on full pay, of course!), and then on-sale date would be back in sync with the calendar. But they would always just look at me oddly.