The one thing I noticed a few years ago the key publishing altered the Air Enthusiast layout and may be then started to lose some readers that bought the mag for some its info. That at the moment it just does not provide.
e.g.
The twenty-five issue has 3 cutaways
Vickers Viscount 810/840
Armstrong Whitworh (gloster) Meteor NF Mk 12
Junkers DI
In those days I would not miss an issue, lately I would page through the mag and only buy it if some thing jumped out and grabbed me.
Some times you have to give some thing to make the defence in the so called crowded market (locally in Portugal I don’t get that idea may be we don’t get all the publications).
Best regards
F111_mac