Time to Dispose of my Old Flypasts?

Keep them!!!!!

Once they are gone it will be too late 🙂

Can’t you stick them up in the lft and forget about them for a few years?

or would that use too many CD-ROMs?

at about 20p/disk Probably not, and you could store them on a spindle.

Think of the time though, alhough that wud be mitigated by the pleasue of seeing every single page again as you scanned it in.

I’ve enjoyed reading your replies to my post .

Moggy – I agree, I remember what it was like finding an old collection of mags as a youngster and would want them to go to someone who would really appreciate them, like a young enthusiast.

Yak 11 and Kev 35 – it’s funny isn’t it how you don’t miss something until it’s gone. I’m sure I would feel quite differently if I lost part or all of my collection.

Moondance – yours is the other side of the coin, and I have thought about the ‘out of date’ angle myself. But I still enjoy delving into, say, an article about the restoration about a particular airframe (Spitfire Mk1 by MAS, for example) in a past issue.

Blue Leader – yes, the loft has been used for the storage of some of them, do you remember that advert for the Flypast Bookshelf of The Future? That’s what the rest look like – in some very heavy binders. I can pick up any one of them and, as Kev says, could spend a while browsing.

Daz – don’t you find some individual issues of Aeroplane Monthly simply outstanding? I have a number of favourite issues I keep coming back to.

von perthes – The CD-ROM option sounds like a good idea. Unfortunately, with thousands of pages to scan this would be too time consuming for me. If Key Publishing were able to convert the contents to CD-ROM for every year and offer ‘years’ for sale, I may consider purchasing to save storage space.

nagsurya – why don’t you place a seperate post with your request? That way, you’ll get a much larger audience than those who read this post.

Eddy – money talks, yes, but I’d rather give them free of charge to a young enthusiast or aviation collection to loan out if I do decide to get rid of them.

Thanks for your replies 🙂

Dont throw the old magazines flypast e.t.c away sell them on Ebay, and make some money !!!!

Eddie Winch

Here’s a guy sitting out here in India who would give his right arm for aviation books and magazines (Like Flypast, Aeroplane, AIR Enthusiast etc.,) dealing with vintage aircraft that served in WW2 and WW1. I wonder if someone out there would like to dispose of their lot and I would be the lucky recipient. I have a pal in Newcastle who will collect for me in the UK and bring them to India when he comes over. Any offers?? E mail me at: [email]vlr_nagsurya@sancharnet.in[/email]
Rajan.:)

What about scanning them on to CD-ROM before getting rid of them, or would that use too many CD-ROMs? Don’t know how many issues you would get on each one. Could always leave out the adverts or stuff that doesn’t interest you.

Same dilemma here – got a vast pile of magazines from about 1996-present (Aeroplane and Flypast) in the loft.

And a ton of R/C modelling magazines, too!!

Hmmm, I’ve got FP from day 1 also,as well as Pilot from 1988 to date.

Ive had the same thoughts as you Seafuryfan, maybe I should pass them on to someone else so they can receive the same pleasure that I have had over the years.

They’re going to stay in the loft until I’ve made up my mind.

Its great to look back at the old airshows of the early eighties though, and one day the old memory is bound to pack up……..

Nostalga ‘aint what it used to be…………:)

I binned them all and don’t miss them. Much of the information is available (and far easier indexed) in a decent collection of books (Putnams for example, plus a decent collection of Mr. Ellis’s Wrecks & Relics). Most information you seek is probably on-line somewhere anyway.
The news sections, well, to quote Elvis C, “Yesterday’s news is tomorrows fish and chips paper” – nothing LESS topical than a 15 year old news article.
Bin/sell them, its quite cathartic!

All I can say is I parted with all my magazines in the early nineties, Flypast inluded, when my interest waned as a career took over. What happened a few years later? I ended up buying a set! And I will never part with them again. They keep coming out for a browse, like books, they’re old friends now.

Keep them if you possibly can, your children may grow to love them, especially as they age, and, in the quiet moments, you will miss them. (The magazines, not the children 😉 )

Regards,

kev35

It’s a tough one, I had the complete set at one time which I rarely looked at, however after my place was broken into a few years back I lost the lot, now I miss not having them to refer to and therefore am trying to collect them all again.

When I was a young spotter with grazed knees sitting on the observation deck at Speke Airport I would have been very happy to be given access to any copies of old magazines. 🙂

Moggy