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Re: Declining quality of British aviation magazines
Nick, the first problem with the articles as in current Aeroplane/Flypast is that they are awfully short and superficial. You may at first say that hey, it is 6 or even 8 pages (only rarely), but if of those 8 pages only 2 are text, there is simply no possibility for any comprehensivess. The Finnish aviation historical quarterly Suomen ilmailuhistoriallinen lehti has only 24 pages per issue, yet its articles are on average longer.
As for topics I would like to be covered:
1. Latest research of German WW2 aircraft. However, this seems to be today conducted mainly by French, German and other non-Anglo-American authors (like Denes Bernad) and it seems to be a rad flag to the editors of British mags.
2. WW1 aircraft in the spirit of Peter M. Grosz and J. M. Bruce.
3. Aircraft and aviation on the 1920s and 1930s. Again a vast gap in what is available.
4. Imperial Japanese aircraft and aviation, preferable ffrom authors who speak fluent Japanese.
5. Technical articles on aircraft and aircraft manufacturing up to 1945. E.g. an in-depth article series on the development of the DB 605 (and I do not mean any stuff about Black 6 or other warbirds).
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