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Old 13th January 2018, 20:56
Jukka Juutinen Jukka Juutinen is offline
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Re: Declining quality of British aviation magazines

I completely agree with Denes. As I previously wrote, The Aviation Historian could be it if its editorial policy was changed. As of now, there are too many useless articles like the one on an air stewardess or or the one on some Iranian aerobatic team in the jet era. For me the maximum amount of editorial space devoted to post-1945 stuff should not be more than 15 % and of that only a minor share of that should be wasted on airliners, esp. jet airliners.

However, the best option would be a new querterly or bimonthly (quarterly being perhaps the most feasible) magazine that would be strictly limited to pre-1946 aviation history. Articles should be on average at least 70 % text and the illustrations should be selected primarily for their informational value, not eye candy. Technical articles having substantial number of detail technical drawings could devote a greater share to illustrations. The page count should be at least 80 per issue.
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