[Jukka Juutinen]

Bombhoon:

1. No doubt over the fact that the internet has affected affairs. However, I think it is wrong to blame the net for the decline of the mags I mention. After all, the decline of especially Aeroplane Monthly began in late 1990s, i.e. at a time when the net was not nearly as "all-encompassing".

2. The question of authorship for the purpose of living. It is my opinion that like many other quite specialist fields aviation history's greatest authors are those whose main income does not come from publishing. For example, the late D. K. Brown was a great naval author who was a naval architect by profession.

3. Is the situation in the U.K. so massively different from Finland? Here great many historians whine that military history rates so high in history book sales compared to e.g. topics like "Lesbian transgenders in the 17th century Finnish society".