''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 supersonic and hypersonic flight by powered, heavier-than-air jets.
Kite flying in China ...
and preservation.
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''The Aeroplane''
The weekly ''The Aeroplane'' launched in June 1911 under founding editor
C. G. Grey
Charles Grey Grey, or C G as he was known (13 November 1875 – 9 December 1953), was the founding editor of the British weekly ''The Aeroplane'' and the second editor of ''Jane's All the World's Aircraft''. Among many honors, he became an honora ...
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 Decemb ...
. 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 oldes ...
'', by
IPC Media
TI Media (formerly International Publishing Company, IPC Magazines Ltd, IPC Media and Time Inc. UK) was a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year. Most of its tit ...
. 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.]
The magazine is the successor to an earlier, weekly publication called ''The Aeroplane'', founded in 1911.
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 oldes ...
'' - 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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