Aeroplane Icons magazine

Morning all,

First post, so, hello!

I’ve been wondering what actually happened to Aeroplane Icons magazine. Does anyone here have any inside knowledge as to why Key stopped publishing it?
I have emailed KeyPublishing and Aeroplane magazine but I didn’t even get a courtesy response. Over the last few months I have ordered a few specials over the ‘phone and asked the sales team why they had stopped publishing this magazine – one had no idea and the other said only “for editorial reasons”.

Now, I really enjoyed this series of ‘bookazines’, the photo quality wasn’t always that great but as a collection of monographs on great British planes they were unique. I’m not going to buy books on all of the subjects they covered and they were a great excuse to dip into the vast Aeroplane archive and republish some contemporary info. I was really looking forward to the last announced magazine on the Gloster Javelin! What happened to it? Is it still out there somewhere waiting to be published as a special? If only Air-Britain would published a few more “files” like the Scimitar and Sea Vixen I would buy those books in a flash! But these magazines were the next best thing.

Anyway, does anyone from Key Publishing post here? It would be nice if there was some sort of ‘official’ response. Thanks for reading, if you have any thoughts on this series of magazines I’d love to hear them, maybe I was the only one who bought them!