''Aeroplane'' (formerly ''Aeroplane Monthly'') is a British magazine devoted to aviation, with a focus on
aviation history
The history of aviation extends for more than two thousand years, from the earliest forms of aviation such as kites and attempts at tower jumping to super sonic flight, supersonic and hypersonic flight by powered, heavier-than-air flight, h ...
and preservation.
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''The Aeroplane''
The weekly ''The Aeroplane'' launched in June 1911 under founding editor
C. G. Grey with
Victor Sassoon
Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon, 3rd Baronet, (20 December 1881 – 13 August 1961) was a businessman and hotelier from the wealthy Baghdadi Jewish Sassoon merchant and banking family.
Biography
Sir Ellice Victor Elias Sassoon was born 30 Decembe ...
. Grey remained editor until November 1939.
''Aeroplane Monthly''
Issue 1 of ''Aeroplane Monthly'' was published in May 1973 at a cover price of 30p,
in association with ''
Flight International
''Flight International'' is a monthly magazine focused on aerospace. Published in the United Kingdom and founded in 1909 as "A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport", it is the world's old ...
'', by
IPC Media. The founder was Richard T. Riding (1942-2019), whose father, E.J. Riding, had been photographer for ''The Aeroplane'' magazine of the 1940s.
[ The magazine is now owned by Key Publishing Ltd and headquartered in Stamford, Lincolnshire.]
See also
*''Flight International
''Flight International'' is a monthly magazine focused on aerospace. Published in the United Kingdom and founded in 1909 as "A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport", it is the world's old ...
'' - contemporary of ''The Aeroplane''
References
External links
Official website
1973 establishments in the United Kingdom
Aviation magazines
History of aviation
History magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 1973
Mass media in Lincolnshire
Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Science and technology magazines published in the United Kingdom
Transport magazines published in the United Kingdom
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