What a stonking issue!

Whilst on the subject of the slective coverage of Flypast, I find it interesting to note that they pretty much completely ignored the Festival of Flight at East Fortune (even though it is only one of two main airshows in Scotland – and the other is Leuchars which is almost entirely composed of various versions of Tornadoes which I can see every day by sticking my head out the window!)

Their attitude to the Festival of Flight compeltely changed (surprise, surprise) when Ken Ellis started doing the commentating. Now, all of a sudden the magazine includes a report on the airshow.

One other comment – they have dropped the ‘Help’ section which has been very useful to myself and other researchers. Clearly, Flypast has no interest in trying to help the aviation community to preserve its own history!

Yes there is that but I prefer reading my copy, not piecing it back together like a jigsaw puzzle with Elmer’s glue all. I prefer to deal with the local post office as little as possible as anything that looks like it might have anything to do with anything of a military nature however remote that connection might be is treated very poorly.

The price I’m afraid of living in a “progressive” town.

Not that anybody cares but I shall be away for a couple of days so I won’t be posting any responses for a bit. Have a nice weekend all.:)

Originally posted by Warhawk
And it will be another month before I get to read it.

Damned ocean anyway. 😡

😉 😀

Hey Warhawk I hear there’s this great new fangled idea called the mail system what you do is to take out a subscription to the mag and they will get it to you via this mailm system thingy and,guess what you’ll have your copy a few days after we get it here.

Cheers
Mike

Missing my fix!

Anyone else – non subscribers – having difficulty getting hold of this months edition? I have trekked into three different WH Smiths in the past week and none of them had a copy. At the last one I asked a dopy assistant who was stocking the shelves (with poxy celeb mags – ugh!) if there was a problem and after three minutes (or thereabouts – doesn’t time fly when you are having fun) she still hadn’t grasped the concept of someone wanting aviation/aeroplane/flying magazines – not even when I pointed to them on the shelf! :confused:
I do not subscribe to magazines by post any more; not when those post office muppets seem content to fold the mags up to fit through a standard letter box or – as happened for a while with a music mag I used to have delivered – decide that free gifts applied to them and not me.:mad: 😡 😡 At least in WH Smiths (if they have it in stock or haven’t banned it from sale because there was something about them inside that they did not like – getting Private Eye used to be a gamble) you are only competing with those who read it in the shop or the swine who leave a bogie in the centre-spread!:mad:

Hmm. Strange that the local 8‘till late can stock 20-odd top shelf porn mags but seem doubtful about the wisdom of placing a monthly order for Flypast for me – maybe, if the Utterly Butterly girls were featured a bit more often…:D 😀 😀

Flood

Re how long it takes to get articles in to FlyPast, Ken Ellis (& his wife Pam) visited our museum at Shoreham in late May.

Don’t forget the Croix de Guerre!

I emailed press releases and pictures sufficent for the news sections – whats a small paragraph and a picture at a minimum?

But hey, they have a memorial now, thats the main thing, and Bee has received long-awaited recognition.

On a plus point, a very good article about North Weald, and how the airfield has changed between 1942 and the present day. I have to say I love all this kind of stuff – it gives me (a mere thirty something) some kind of identity with the barren wastelands that we sometime see where once-proud airfields stood years ago.

Delighted for FlyPast that the article should coincide with next weekends Fly-In and Mustang night, which of course hasn’t been advertised with any pop-up screens at all.

While missing Johnny and Alan’s ceremony.

Cynical?

Me?

Perish the thought…

Ant, normal articles take their time, but news gets in as quickly as Flypast want it to. Picture of the RIAT tribute to the Firefly crew dated 19/20 July on page 6. John and Alan’s memorial service took place six days earlier.

Sure, Flypast have had two very sensitive issues (the Firefly and Casa 2111 fatals) to cover, but surely it’s not unreasonable to expect a mention of the service at the very least – especially given the amount of advance notice Snapper provided to this very forum.

Hopefully FlyPast will cover the ceremony in the October issue. I’ll be keeping a careful eye on it. And also on this thread, lest it go the way of others…

And it will be another month before I get to read it.

Damned ocean anyway. 😡

😉 😀

I’m told that it can take quite a while for an article to be published in a magazine like Flypast.The features are often planned months in advance,so if snapper mailed his article in the last month or two it could be the autumn before we see it in print. Give it some time and see what happens.
As for thism onth’s issue,I can’t comment as I haven’t read it yet.Watch this space…

Have to agree it is an absolutely cracking issue, plenty of reading and, dare I say it, worth the regular price increases. I agree with Snapper in that I am disappointed not to see something about the Memorial to Johnny Wiseman and Alan Haddon. Snapper has accumulated a wealth of information on these two pilots and the Memorial ceremony was a triumph and a fitting tribute. One ould have thought flypast would have been eager and even proud to publish a piece on the occasion. After all, it was on flypast’s very own forum that Snapper first started that project which many of us have followed since last November.

Regards,

kev35

You forgot to mention the article on the Shoreham Aircraft Museum, with which I’m a volunteer, and editor of ‘Friends of The Few’, the museum magazine.

Memo to Ken Ellis, Many thanks for your kind words, the cheque’s in the post.

Yeah,that’s all well and good. But…

Where is the bit about Bee Beamont’s family getting the Belgian Croix de Guerre at Legends? Seen that at an airshow before have we? Unimportant is it?

Where is the bit about the 609 Veterans (and the rest of the veterans that attended Legends, other than the Key Publishing symposium)? **** me, one of them was ACTING STATION COMMANDER for a while in 1942, and defended Duxford in a clapped out hack Hurricane. (Not to mention the Goat).

Where is the bit about Johnny Wiseman and Babe Haddon’s memorial?

Big deal, yet more aircraft movements on the register.

And Aeroplane Monthly didn’t do any better either.

(Nor did they shed any light on Janie’s dissappearance come to think of it).