NicR wrote:
Flyer magazine is now free for everyone to read online
The Flyer back catalogue becomes free after a 3 month delay; same for the UK LAA magazine. AOPA Pilot has highlights from each edition on their website, and Plane and Pilot has individual articles. I think the market has changed and nowadays magazine content has to be published online to bring search traffic to the publisher.
Astonishingly, Google Books has a complete series of 80 years of Flying (and its predecessor Popular Aviation) from 1927 to 2008, which someone must have spent a long time scanning. Just had a quick look at one from 1946 and it’s funny how familiar the aircraft in the adverts are
And for those who don’t know, Flyer magazine is now free for everyone to read online:
Maoraigh wrote:
I read flying and motor mags in the Aberdeen town library […] electronic media
Eureka moment just checked my library’s website and they do magazines online via an app, including:
Which includes 1 to 3 years of back-issues. Easily more than I could read.
I get the LAA mag with my subscription; sadly I seem to never have time to read it, but it’s the kind of content I like. There’s usually a good trip report, there’s technical stuff about building and maintenance, a monthly article about all the stuff that’s broke recently on LAA members planes etc.
I take it all back about Pilot: the infringements article in the November edition is proper investigative journalism
Jujupilote wrote:
I like the technical articles of kitplanes, which is available on their website. How they are still free I don’t know but it’s great !
Just read a very good article/comparison on avionics on their website. Never heard of it before but will browse for more!
A proportion of buyers of GA magazines are dreamers who never get round to flying. Impulse buyers at news-stands. A market only available to paper, not electronic media
I’ve found them pretty poor for many years. I always thought the USA aopa mag was the pick of the bunch but I have to say I haven’t read it for many years.
I’ve always thought Propliner was the best of the aviation magazines and even now when I read back editions I think it’s quite a good historical account.
Poland used to have “Pilot Klub” but it shut down some years ago. They published a lot of my articles. The guy who ran it became an airline pilot, I think.