Aviation Magazines

[LowNSlow]

Am I the only person who is sad enough to keep all the flying orientated comics he buys. Pending the move to LNS Towers I have 3 garbage sacks full in a friends house and the legs of my bed barely touch the ground due to the stacks of Aeroplane, Pilot, Flyer etc underneath. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> . .. .After the move large strong shelves will be built to accommodate these weighty tomes.. .. .Reasure me, please say I'm not the only one..... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="confused.gif" />

[DOC.400]

Don't panic LNS -I've got loads in cupboards too, plus donations from friends and elderley relatives as they clear out their houses, and do you know, I don't think I've EVER looked at them a second time............. .. .Any good homes/archives out there??. .. .DOC

[LowNSlow]

Glad I'm not the only one Doc. :D

I'm sure there are more collectors lurking out there who are too embarassed to admit to their squirrel tendancies :p

[Polar_stereographic]

Unfortunately since the arrival of minor Polars, I just don't have time to read them like I used to. Does not stop me buying them. I now have two piles, those that have been read and those that have not.

I end up taking a heap of them on holiday as I get more time then. Plus I'm a squirell by nature, but my better half is completely the opposite. Keeps the read pile a fraction of the size it used to be.

PS

[suction]

I'll put my hands up too. I've got Pilot going back to the seventies and plenty of the others too. I still flick through them occasionally on rainy Sunday afternoons. I usually buy Pilot, Flyer & TP on a monthly basis - the only opportunity I get to read them is on business trips - so if you see a fella on a 757 clutching a fist full of flying mags then it's probably me.

-S

[Evo7]

The worst bit is when you know you read something useful in Pilot .... or maybe it was Flyer .... this year .... or maybe the end of last year ... could have been last summer .... and there was this red Extra on the cover .... which might have been a yellow Extra .... or a yellow Cub .... which would mean that it was Pilot .... or maybe Flyer .... but certainly this year .... or maybe the end of last year .... :rolleyes: :)

[LowNSlow]

Exactly Evo. I justify the space occupied by saying it's a library of valuable data :cool:

Never can find the article I'm looking for though. Maybe one day I will descend to the depths of anorakdom which will make me catalogue the piles. The piles are already sorted into Pilot, Flyer etc in chronological order. Arrrgghh I'm halfway there, all it needs now is a list of content on the top of the pile :eek:

Morphine please nurse, urgently :D :D

[nosefirsteverytime]

*puts up 'is 'and*

Yep, me too! 'tis how I found out about flying over seas in Florida (one day....), and I'm keeping them for the ILAFFTs and "That Worst Day". May come in handy later along the training road!

But, what I'd like to know, is who sticks up the posters in the middle of some of 'em? Or, to be more exact, who has the most posters on 'is/'er walls?

[CBG]

I too must confess. I got all the Flyer going back a few years. When I did not have any wings I bought a copy of Flyer, was interested in the stuff and I called the editor to ask him "how to become a pilot". He very kindly spent 20 minutes on the phone telling me about medicals, schools, gave me all sorts of useful phone numbers. I then subscribed to the magazine and gave tonnes of money to European flyers to make me one (flyer that is).

In the past few years Irv Lee, Ronnie Faux and other Flyer contributors did provide me with tips, help and information I did not find in their articles. The end result is that I no longer fly in the UK (unfortunately) but I have kept my subscription to Flyer.

I also get the US Flying - don't you just love the way Lane Wallace writes?

I too sometimes pick up an old copy.......and spend the rest of the afternoon going through quite a lot of the mags.