Magazine Subscriptions

[tom d. friedman]

i can see where the web saves bucks from subscribing to mags ya cheap s.o.b.s (only kidding ) but i like to sit down with a stiff drink at the end of a long day & read at my own comfort, with my keester parked in my chair, with no computer eye strain. my mags are more portable than a lap top, & less of a pain in the ass. as an author i find it easier to find reference material from the old stack of dead trees rather than doing a web search which usually brings up everything but what i'm looking for. it's frusterating has all hell to cull through all that info when you use the wrong search word set up. with a mag....... just turn to page what ever.

[Tom Crawford]

Air Classics, Warbirds International & Warbirds Digest.

I second you Tom. Me to...when the mail "person" comes and leaves me a present in mail box it makes everything good for the evening. I can filter
out all the female voices (all consumed in their world) and enjoy an hour or so in "MY" world. (Me and a shot of Absolute).
Tom

[Roger Cain]

Pacific Flyer
Warbirds Digest
Classic Wings
FlyPast
Playboy (very nice hot air balloons)

And two I'm about to let expire
Air Classics (30 years - on and off)
Warbirds Intl. (since the first issue)

Memberships that include literature:
Society for Avition History
Wings of History
EAA Sport Pilot (Would prefer the Warbirds issue instead)
CAF
CAF Golden Gate Wing

Free at airport: InFlight USA

Yup, way too much to read, not enough time

[Brad]

Warbird Digest and Classic Wings Down Under.

I get the CAF Dispatch because I'm a member but it's really not much of a magazine anymore.

I've got all the Air Classics and Warbirds International from the first issues but as soon as the subscriptions run out I have no plans to buy them anymore.

My EAA and Warbirds of America membership run out at the end of November and I doubt that I'll renew either of them again.

I have all the Sport Aviation issues on CD and I think that is the best money that was ever spent on something that's totally useless! It only serves to keep me occupied in the airplane while flying to the desert but I sure wish more magazines would offer the CDs.

[Lynn Allen]

Air Classics
Warbird Digest
Aopa
CAF


Lynn

[bdk]

Classic Wings is the only commercial mag I get anymore . I also get the NATA mag, WOA, and American Rifleman as a result of memberships. When you join or renew EAA you can opt out of Sport Aviation and save a few bux. Everything else I let expire. I don't have time anymore. I have let expire Air Comix, Warbirds Int'l, Military Vehicles, Hot Rodding, Popular Hot Rodding, Vintage Racecar Journal, and a few others I'm sure that I have forgotten about.

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[henning]

Ok, so here goes...

warbird digest
EAA-warbird
AOPA pilot
intl airpower review (started with wings of fame (red) which I really liked!
Businessweek

then, part of this is the neighbor kid has a rather deadly
magazine fundraiser each year... which I endorse since they buy lots
of popcorn from my favorite cub scout... you dads know the drill...

flying
plane & pilot
air & space
flight

Then often at the mag store... when something really catches my
interest.. more often than not..

wings / airpower
Aeroplane
flypast
flight journal
air classics
classic wings (hard to find, but like it alot)
flight getaways (liked this one..is it still alive?)

occaisionaly:
warbirds intl
aviation history
flight training

woodworking
sea classics (like this one..)
outside

yeah, I know I read alot. Yikes, this is quite a list...

[Scott Rose]

The internet cannot surpass the magazines for portability

I agree, It's difficult to bring a computer into my libraries reading room. There is no desk and only one porcelain chair.

[TimAPNY]

The internet cannot surpass the magazines for portability

I agree, It's difficult to bring a computer into my libraries reading room. There is no desk and only one porcelain chair.

I tend to read more of the articles in the Mags that I might be more apt to pass over on the Net. Nothing like collecting more useless info in my head.

Tim

[Mudge]

Warbird Digest
Guns
American Handgunner

Mudge the hostile

[ww2John]

Subscriptions -
eaa warbirds (membership)
air & space (membership)
NMUSAF Friends Journal (membership)

book store for long flights
(only when I run out of books for the trip back home)
aeroplane
flypast

Magazines vs Internet - kinda tough to browse the Internet on commercial airline flights where I get most of my reading done way too many months this past year

...plus I think Scott & I have similar libraries...

FYI - the most recent EAA Warbirds magazine has two good articles; one with a lot of "old" a/c pix and the other is the final installment on the post-war Bendix races.

[Dennis Bergstrom]

Subscriptions:

Classic Wings - An awesome magazine since issue #1 - I have the complete set. Excellent photography, lots of worldwide news, outstanding survivor lists, etc, etc.

Warbird Digest - informative articles, great photography, lots of news
Warbirds International - will probably drop due to his CWH whining
Pacific Flyer
Sport Aviation
EAA Warbirds
Air & Space Smithsonian
FlyPast


From a good friend in Scotland after he's read it:
Aeroplane Monthly

At the newstand:
Flight Journal - great John Dibbs photography and interesting historical articles. I buy all of their special editions about specific warbird types.
Air Classics - occasionally...but after Michael's fiasco with CWH probably not any more.

Dennis

Air International
Airliners
Air Classics
International Air Power Review
Air Force Magazine

Jim C.

[Dave Homewood]

My only subscription is to Classic Wings, which is the best magazine there is, full stop. I get the subscription every year from Mum for my birthday, but even if she didn't give it to me I'd still subscribe.

I used to subscribe to New Zealand Wings from about 1990 - 97, but I gave up my sub after Ross Macpherson, the editor, sadly died from cancer, and the magazine seemed to dip in quality imho. It also went cold on warbird content as Classic Wings Downunder was stealing its thunder by then.

However in recent years I have been buying it again from bookshops, and recognised that Calum Macpherson, Ross's son, had really brought it back up to scratch. It continues to be excellent under new editor and owner Rob Neill. I buy it every month again now and someday when i get organised I'll re-subscribe. I realise now that I wish I'd bought all the ones I've missed as back-issues are a mine of information. I have most copies from 1972-97 thanks to being given Dad's collection and also buying extras here and there. I will endeaour to make up the lost years somehow, and then start working backwards collecting right back to 1932 when it strted if I can. Fat chance of that though.

I used to buy Aeroplane Monthly, Flypast and Wingspan all from the UK too, but the internet gives me more than enough info on their scene nowadays.

[PhantomAce08]

Just as a side thought, it is good to check Ebay for subscriptions--they are much cheaper! For example, I bought my fiance a year of Road and Track for $2.50!