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Old 9th Jun 2016, 22:20
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Mike Flynn
 
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You will never see that on the front cover of any magazine apart from Private Eye

The problem these days is that we are all way in front of magazine editors and what they can write in a glossy twelve times a year.

Sure they have nice trips here there and everywhere to check out aircraft no one will ever buy.

I bought Pilot decades ago partly for the aircraft adverts.

AFORS has taken that market from them.

I don't need to be reminded I need a Breitling watch or all the other expensive stuff I can buy on ebay for half the price.

The letters page was another area I bought Pilot 30 years ago plus the stuff from Alan Bramson.

I can get all that and more from the internet in seconds
now.

Then of course we have the carousel of editors who move from magazine to magazine.

Dave Calderwood,Philip Whiteman etc.

If you look at the cost of any glossy magazine and check out what is editorial and advertorial then you pay a lot for very little original text.

I suspect I am opening another can of worms as we put one to bed elsewhere.

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