Best Aviation Magazines?

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
s.com...
I've got my opinions (and we subscribe to a bunch of them) -- but I'm
curious what the group-think is on this question:

What's your top 5 favorite aviation mags?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

I subscribe to these 3:

Sport Aviation
Aviation Consumer
Air & Space

I read these occasionally, but don't subscribe:

Fly-past
Flying

KB

I've got my opinions (and we subscribe to a bunch of them) -- but I'm
curious what the group-think is on this question:

What's your top 5 favorite aviation mags?

My favorites are the ones I *don't* subscribe to. I have a couple of Fly Baby
items that I make available to folks on my web page...patches, reprints of
1960s-era Fly Baby newsletters, etc. Because of the international interest in
the airplane, I occasionally get requests for these items from folks outside of
North America.

When that happens, I offer them a deal: Instead sending me money, I tell them
to package up a batch of their own country's aviation magazines and mail them to
me. I tell them specifically NOT to buy new magazines for me...just send me the
ones they've got sitting around and would be throwing out, anyway. To put
together a bundle where the postage is approximately equal to the cost of the
items I send them.

I've received magazines from Great Britain, Norway, France, South Africa,
Australia, and New Zealand. I get a special kick out of the Norwegian and
French ones. It's fun to pick through the technical articles and try to figure
out the point's they're making (e,g, even if you don't know what "La Vitesse Est
Aussi Important Que La Masse" means, you can recognize photos and drawings of a
pitot tube!). Even the advertisements are fresh....

Ron Wanttaja

Jay Honeck wrote:
What's your top 5 favorite aviation mags?

IFR
AOPA
Private Pilot
Plane & Pilot
Trade-a-Plane

I get Flying, but it has too much biz jet stuff for me.

Kev

Jay Honeck wrote:
I've got my opinions (and we subscribe to a bunch of them) -- but I'm
curious what the group-think is on this question:

What's your top 5 favorite aviation mags?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

AOPA Flight Training
Aviation Safety
AOPA Pilot
Flying
Plane & Pilot

Jay B

I like the mags with destinations. Southwest Aviation etc. That and
Trade-a-Plane (pilots are always thinking about buying an airplane).

So Jay, what are your top 5?


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message s.com...
: I've got my opinions (and we subscribe to a bunch of them) -- but I'm
: curious what the group-think is on this question:
:
: What's your top 5 favorite aviation mags?
: --
: Jay Honeck
: Iowa City, IA
: Pathfinder N56993
: www.AlexisParkInn.com
: "Your Aviation Destination"
:

"B A R R Y" wrote in message news : On 09 Dec 2006 17:18:13 GMT, Blanche wrote:
:
: Smithsonian Air & Space
:
: Sorry, I forgot that I get this. Make it #5!
:
: It _IS_ a very nice magazine, but I didn't think of it for some
: reason.
:
: I really enjoyed the recent B58 article.

It is amazing how poor the editing in Air & Space is, though. Seems like their is at least half a dozen obvious errors
in every issue ( I know, there...)

Are these choices going to be available at the Inn? (An excellent
idea, actually -- stocking the library with material you know will be
read!)

Actually, most already are -- and then some.

We currently receive:

- Flying
- GA News
- Aviation Consumer
- Plane & Pilot
- EAA Sport Aviation
- AOPA Pilot
- Aviation History
- Flight Journal
- Pipers
- Cherokee PIlots Association Mag
- America's Flyways
- Pilot Getaways
- Midwest Flyer
- Smithsonian Air & Space
- Antique Airfield Runway

And probably some I'm forgetting....

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

I still subscribe to Flying Magazine, but it usually takes me about
five minutes to wander through the magazine and filter out stuff. Every
cover is a picture of a bizjet, and I get the feeling they're catering
toward uppercrust FBO's (like the Yellowstone Jet Center here).

That being said, I like Lane Wallace's articles. But, being a computer
geek, I'm not sure I would like to be a passenger in an airplane flown
by a Captain named "Abend". :)

I get AOPA mag and the two EAA mags. Like'em both. Also get Air & Space
and Flight Journal. Like them too.

--Walt
Bozeman, Montana


Jay Honeck wrote:
Are these choices going to be available at the Inn? (An excellent
idea, actually -- stocking the library with material you know will be
read!)

Actually, most already are -- and then some.

We currently receive:

- Flying
- GA News
- Aviation Consumer
- Plane & Pilot
- EAA Sport Aviation
- AOPA Pilot
- Aviation History
- Flight Journal
- Pipers
- Cherokee PIlots Association Mag
- America's Flyways
- Pilot Getaways
- Midwest Flyer
- Smithsonian Air & Space
- Antique Airfield Runway

And probably some I'm forgetting....

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:
I've got my opinions (and we subscribe to a bunch of them) -- but I'm
curious what the group-think is on this question:

What's your top 5 favorite aviation mags?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

My top 5 favorites I currently subscribe to are

Flight Journal Simply the best all around enthusiast mag out there.
Air and Space Sometimes I read it cover to cover sometimes not.
Warbird Digest New but pretty good for Warbird coverage
Air Enthusiast Not as British as it used to be and the lesser for it
but still good.
Classic Wings Australian version of Warbird Digest but does delve
into civilian aircraft.

I get some professional mags at work but it isn't really fun reading
anymore.

My favorite aviation magazine of all time was Air Progress from the
1970s and '80s. What a blast that magazine was. I actually wrote to
Budd Davisson years later to tell him how much that magazine meant to
me and he called me at home to thank me! The writers for Air Progress
were having fun. In contrast the writers for Flying seemed to always
have a stick up thier butts from trying to be so cool and efficient. I
remember AP did a series on spoof homebuilts like a 3/4 scale B-17 and
then a 5/3 Piper Cub. Think a Piper Cub the size of an Antonov Colt!

John Dupre'