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The old airplane magazine has
many uses
Flying model airplane magazines
have been with
us for a long time. They were launched shortly after manned human
flight began,
launched by that historical Kitty Hawk flight by the Wright brothers in
1903.
Airplane magazines have for years been
used by hobbyists
and have been the source of plenty of fun capturing a certain age in
airplane
history.
The flying model airplane magazines that
cover the period
of the mid 1930s up to around the end of the Second World War are
probably the
most fascinating you will find anywhere.
It was a fascinating period in world
history and aviation
was not to be left behind. In fact this was a period of very rapid
development
for aviation as others developed and improved on the Wright Brother’s
invention.
It was in airplane magazines that I first
started to
appreciate and fully grasped the impact of the British Spitfire fighter
plane.
A hero of a plane that single handedly defended Britain when all other
forms of
defense had failed as Hitler looked set to take over Great Britain in
his
relentless conquest of the world.
Actually the Spitfire played an important
role in turning
the tide of the war so that it was the allies who emerged victorious
rather
than the evil invading armies of Hitler and his comrades in arms.
Yes, history is beautifully covered in
airplane magazines
and just to let the lessons and appreciation sink in deep enough, you
can
easily use an airplane magazine to build a rather authentic model of
the heroic
plane.
The rest of the content, written in the
style of the time
can also be rather entertaining. Even the advertisements of the time
can be
highly informative and entertaining.
Of course many of these airplane
magazines of the time are
very high priced collector’s items which can be exchanged or sold to
finance
another interesting part of an airplane hobbyists’ program.
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