AFM on the slide

have been buying Airforces Monthly since 1988.

I know a lot has changed since the cold war finished, but I really do feel that the quality of the magazine has declined, especially over the last couple of years.

Everything from the articles and photos right through to the steadily increasing amount of advertising filler, has turned this magazine into an “also ran” as oppossed to the definitive magazine on military aviation affairs that it once was.

AFM seems to regurgitate the same information issue after issue, and the once in depth articles on the finer points of military aviation seem to have by and large given way to photo pictorials and broad issue journalism.

Perhaps the internet is making AFM a little redundant?

Why is it that I find myself finding more and more what I want on the net, and paying more and more for less content by the month as I seem to be finding with AFM?

In my opinion, this forum presents a much more interesting cross section of specific information, and I can go to any fan site to get all the pics of the last Tiger Meet if I feel so inclined.

Go back to basics AFM, I say, and pull out an old issue from circa 1990 and read it from cover to cover. These were the magazines that, despite their age and political irelevance to today, still manage an occasional read even now as a source of information for me.

I think I may have just bought my last issue.