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Used to be FlyPast but Aeroplane now I think - the Database features are absolutely superb and generally worth the cover price alone plus they seem to be doing a bit better on keeping up with news, which used to be their weak point.
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I note that you are relatively new to PPRuNe so I thought I had better mention that your post will invoke a modicum of advertising which is not allowed on PPRuNe, except to those who pay for it. FLYER magazine is one and we have to protect them, and others from mags getting free space. I am sure you now see the point.
The occasional mention is OK but links to a magazine is a big no-no.
So there ya go. Sorry, but PPRuNe is vastly expensive to run these days and if we give advertising space away then PPRuNe would suffer. Not, therefore, an option.
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I note that you are relatively new to PPRuNe so I thought I had better mention that your post will invoke a modicum of advertising which is not allowed on PPRuNe, except to those who pay for it. FLYER magazine is one and we have to protect them, and others from mags getting free space. I am sure you now see the point.
The occasional mention is OK but links to a magazine is a big no-no.
So there ya go. Sorry, but PPRuNe is vastly expensive to run these days and if we give advertising space away then PPRuNe would suffer. Not, therefore, an option.
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Well, CamelPilot, I won't mention my current magazine, nor the one I used to edit...
Having read it, off and on, since the first issue, I would certainly recommend Aeroplane (they've dropped the 'Monthly' bit from the title) because it is accurate almost to the point of being definitive, has a high standard of English and is very well designed.
Worth reading - although infamous for its poor repro and quirky layout - is that wonderful U.S. publication (pretty much an institution) WWI Aero. If early and pioneering aircraft are your bag, this is one you cannot miss. Subscribe now, and help keep dear old Leo Opdyke afloat!
Of course, there are many others out there that deserve praise: thankfully even the wobbliest issues of the most indifferent flying publications never sink to anything near the standard of the average C5 TV documentary!
Having read it, off and on, since the first issue, I would certainly recommend Aeroplane (they've dropped the 'Monthly' bit from the title) because it is accurate almost to the point of being definitive, has a high standard of English and is very well designed.
Worth reading - although infamous for its poor repro and quirky layout - is that wonderful U.S. publication (pretty much an institution) WWI Aero. If early and pioneering aircraft are your bag, this is one you cannot miss. Subscribe now, and help keep dear old Leo Opdyke afloat!
Of course, there are many others out there that deserve praise: thankfully even the wobbliest issues of the most indifferent flying publications never sink to anything near the standard of the average C5 TV documentary!
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Hi Philip.
Just the sort of post I would have expected from you. Thanks very much. Can't complain about your approach to it but I do know the mags to which you refer.
A clue. I wrote an article in Aeroplane a while back. Leisure Sport should tap a nerve.
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Just the sort of post I would have expected from you. Thanks very much. Can't complain about your approach to it but I do know the mags to which you refer.
A clue. I wrote an article in Aeroplane a while back. Leisure Sport should tap a nerve.
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'The Aeroplane', every time. As Phillip quite rightly says, definitive, correct, factually accurate, and a good standard of 'English (UK)', as Microsoft quite delicately doesn't put it!
Flypast is OK-ish, but does have its 'nothing happens in the world apart from the USA, moments' But at least the editor knows what he's talking about, unlike Pilot..which was good once, but then a huge multi-title conglomerate company bought it and it went rapidly down the pan..
The rest? Waste of space & money IMHO
Flypast is OK-ish, but does have its 'nothing happens in the world apart from the USA, moments' But at least the editor knows what he's talking about, unlike Pilot..which was good once, but then a huge multi-title conglomerate company bought it and it went rapidly down the pan..
The rest? Waste of space & money IMHO
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Aeroplane, no doubt, just getting better and better. The Database section is very strong ,best, perhaps when featuring less well known types (eg Ambassador, Gannet in recent issues). I tend to think that the quality of Aeroplane is like having a Putnams book in minature every month.
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Absolutely agree with all said above, shifted to Aeroplane several years back - apart from anything else, I find it clearer to read - Flypast's typeface became too small for "comfortable" reading!
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The best-known monthlies — you know who they are! — are both excellent in their diverse ways. But what is lacking (and apologies to those who know me and have heard me banging on about this for years) is an aviation equivalent of ‘Classic and Sportscar’ or ‘Classic Cars’. That is, a title that would provide total coverage of the vintage/classic/neo-classic/warbird/preservation/museum/aviation history scene with news, gossip, event reports, product news, ask-the-man-who-owns-one marque analyses, informed flight tests, technical tips, personality profiles, history, nostalgia and information of interest to owners/would-be owners, enthusiasts and ‘anoraks’ alike, all presented in quality writing and photography. Alas, a mere glance at either of those motoring titles will tell you why it can never happen: they have huge revenue-generating advertising bases that aviation simply could not duplicate. And of course there are many, many more classic car owners/would-be owners/enthusiasts/dreamers out there than there are aviation equivalents. Until a benevolent publisher comes along who is willing to absorb the losses such a title would undoubtedly suffer, it will remain forever a pipe dream. (And if you think such a person exists, you must be smoking some very funny stuff in your pipe.)
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Spot-on, Aerohack - but then you'd not expect me to disagree, would you?
CamelPilot: having long been fascinated by the Leisure Sport replicas - and knowing L S pilots Brian Lecomber and the late Tony Harold (still greatly missed) - I remember that piece very well.
I should add that, as well as that magnificent and informative section on the Wright brothers' aeroplanes, Aeroplane does us all proud in covering civil machinery so well: we all get tired of wall-to-wall warbirds in the end...
CamelPilot: having long been fascinated by the Leisure Sport replicas - and knowing L S pilots Brian Lecomber and the late Tony Harold (still greatly missed) - I remember that piece very well.
I should add that, as well as that magnificent and informative section on the Wright brothers' aeroplanes, Aeroplane does us all proud in covering civil machinery so well: we all get tired of wall-to-wall warbirds in the end...
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Aerohack, you produce it. I'll buy it... I''ll even hep you produce it. I know what you mean...
CamelPilot, you mentioned that piece you wrote for Aeroplane to me before - I can't find it in any of my copies so assume it predated me buying it regularly. Any clues as to which issue? And time we had another drink...
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CamelPilot, you mentioned that piece you wrote for Aeroplane to me before - I can't find it in any of my copies so assume it predated me buying it regularly. Any clues as to which issue? And time we had another drink...
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Warbirds Worldwide, IMHO, gave the best warbird specific in-depth coverage of any magazine/periodical during it's time. I had always wondered how 'they' built / re-built such machines, and WW offered a wonderful insight into the 'nuts and bolts' of it, together with some top-notch photography, reproduced on quality glossy paper.
My copies, purchased before it's unfortunate demise, will give me pleasure for many years to come.
My copies, purchased before it's unfortunate demise, will give me pleasure for many years to come.
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I'm just nipping out to buy a lottery ticket...
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Treadders.
It was the October 2001 issue. Spooky was on the front cover.
Time we met for our glass of lemonade. Well, yours is, I colour mine with tea!
Mr P.
I did say that individual opinions are OK. What is NOT acceptable are links to the mags. People are well able to do that for themselves.
Hope that clarifies it for you.
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It was the October 2001 issue. Spooky was on the front cover.
Time we met for our glass of lemonade. Well, yours is, I colour mine with tea!
Mr P.
I did say that individual opinions are OK. What is NOT acceptable are links to the mags. People are well able to do that for themselves.
Hope that clarifies it for you.
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Wings Down Under is always a useful read, if only to give an alternative point of view.
For some interesting little Gems I find The Fighter Collections quartely magazine "Fighter Log"
a) stunning quality for a volountary production
b) always comes up with something different.
Dunno who puts it together for TFC though?
Chris
For some interesting little Gems I find The Fighter Collections quartely magazine "Fighter Log"
a) stunning quality for a volountary production
b) always comes up with something different.
Dunno who puts it together for TFC though?
Chris
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and c) is inevitably late!
You after a share of my Lottery winnings? I forgot to go...
CamelPilot, Thanks for that, I must have it somewhere... Lemonade it is, week beginning 17th suit?
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You after a share of my Lottery winnings? I forgot to go...
CamelPilot, Thanks for that, I must have it somewhere... Lemonade it is, week beginning 17th suit?
Treadders