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Classic Wings is the best overall

Posted by Richard Allnutt on Tue Sep 10, 2002 01:52:31 PM

In reply top Warbird Magazines posted by Tim Savage on Mon Sep 09, 2002 09:12:02 PM

While I really enjoy aspects of Flypast, and love the database section of Aeroplane I think Classic Wings covers what I love most in the greatest detail. They always have at least one great article on some restoration or other you have heard little about in other journals, and it always includes superb photographs, reproduced on very high quality paper stock. The news section always includes something on breaking events elsewhere in the world, but also has a lot of stories from the antipodean perspective which are rarely featured elsewhere, and yet nearly always of a significant type. I used to really enjoy Warbirds Worldwide, and even made contributions from time to time. It is sad that WW went the way of all flesh, but Classic Wings is a clear successor, and reports on areas not often covered well in the European Press. The US magazines (Air Classics and Warbirds International) are, by and large, junk. They have a few good pictures from time to time, but the articles are nearly always generic rehashes of some previous article, and have very little new information. Perhaps this is because
the owners of these magazines are notorious for not paying contributors.

At any rate, go out there and subscribe to Classic Wings... it's much much cheaper to do it that way, and it's an excellent highly polished product.

Cheers,
Richard

: I am interested in what people would like to see most in a
: warbird magazine. What do you like about the ones that a
: re out now and what would you like to see if someone would
: develop a new one.

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