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Going Back In Time

Sat Jul 23, 2016 4:11 pm

Flying magazine and it's previous titles is now avialable on Google Books. Enjoy!
https://books.google.com/books?id=d5MrN ... navlinks_s

Re: Going Back In Time

Sat Jul 23, 2016 9:49 pm

Thanks for the heads-up! (Or should I say, "I learned about Flying from that" :roll: )

Re: Going Back In Time

Sun Jul 24, 2016 7:16 am

Thanks....I think......another way to spend endless hours on the internet..... :P

Re: Going Back In Time

Sun Jul 24, 2016 11:11 am

Thanks for posting that.

Re: Going Back In Time

Sun Jul 24, 2016 6:21 pm

I started reading Flying as a teenager, it was my sole source of knowledge on general aviation.
Thanks to a better than average memory (about aviation stuff at least :) ) it's where I learned about not only Cessnas and Beeches, but about vintage aircraft like Stinsons and various biplanes.

One of it's more noteworthy editors, Stephen Wilkinson, is a frequent poster here and has a wealth of knowledge about the magazine and general aviation in its "glory days".
Last edited by JohnB on Sun Jul 24, 2016 10:24 pm, edited 2 times in total.

Re: Going Back In Time

Sun Jul 24, 2016 9:12 pm

Funny...I just forwarded this link to my wife, who was the managing editor of Flying back when we first met, and I told her that here was where she could look up all the awful, embarrassing, sexist things I wrote in the 1960s/70s...I particularly remember one article I did on some avionics company that claimed it was going to put all the other avionics companies out of business (it went bankrupt within a year), and I dutifully repeated their claim that they used women assemblers "because their fingers were smaller."

I don't even want to think about it...and I'm not gonna look.
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