Thinking specifically about Classic Aircraft, its remit was broadly the post-war era of mainly jets, and of course the post 1945 years have seen a constant contraction and down-sizing of armed forces, a trend still on-going, so essentially the subject matter is ever shrinking, such that we have just 2 combat jet types in the RAF.
Bit of an easy shot, which on the face of it doesn’t make much sense to me.
The contraction of modern military aviation won’t effect a mainly Classic orientated magazine, the subject of post-war, cold-war, commercial, and expansion of light civil aviation are infinitely tappable subjects.
There will always be new information, and well written articles on these subjects forthcoming, especially as more information becomes declassified or available for study of the most remarkable period in aviation history.
There is also a strong enough scene in preserved and flying aircraft from the post-war era.
There’s a wider issue than that as well, and one which I was referring to when mentioning forums.
I have read posts here (and elsewhere on net) that show such depth of knowledge of a subject as to be outstanding and hugely satisfying to my desire to learn about such stuff, I haven’t read the likes of in magazines as they are not seemingly interested in the minutae of sometimes obscure subjects.
The posters of such information on forums may conversley not have the confidence or the writting skills to feel they can submit such articles to publications, or indeed the time to put their knowledge into magazine ready format.
I have also things on internet land from established published names, and have been amazed at some of the inaccuracies, and stubborness to listen to others, thus raising the question for me of how they researched the information that they have published in print and many would regard as ‘the facts’.
It’s a difficult one, as information wise we have never had it so good, but it does seem to be at the cost of our established ways of getting information.
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