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By Shedder
#1872468
I've been clearing out our loft, and came across a stack of old aeroplane magazines from the early 1970s, titles like Air Pictorial, The Aeroplane, Flight and Air Britain news. I was going to take them for recycling, but then it occurred to me someone might be interested in them. Also some old aviation books from the same period.

Are there people out there who collect such things, or should I just take them for recycling?
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By Flyingfemme
#1872487
I had some, very ratty, WW2 Flight magazines. Couldn’t bear to throw them out. So I made them into a dining table, covered a tatty windowsill in my office (rather than paint it) and made a “second storey” for my desk to raise the monitors to the right height and give me extra storage.
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Make something for the mancave?
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By T6Harvard
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#1872511
@Shedder , maybe list the books on the for sale section? My favourite aviation books are old ones!

If you have a copy of 'Frigate Bird' by Sir Gordon Taylor please PM me!
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By PeteSpencer
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#1872512
IMHO old aviation magazines are virtually worthless:
I've taken the two main mags for 25+ years: I never go back and re-read them:

I used to offer them free and delivered to local Air Cadets and got no takers.

For a while I slipped them into the father-to-be waiting room on the labour ward at the old day job but they were deemed an infection risk: Same response from my dentists surgery.

I used to keep them for 12 months before binning them at the end of each year in case I wanted to go back through the year but I never did:

I now bin them each month after I have read them.

No storage problem here...................

Of course for the last two years this problem has halved...................... :roll: :wink:
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By Hooligan
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PeteSpencer wrote:
For a while I slipped them into the father-to-be waiting room on the labour ward at the old day job but they were deemed an infection risk: Same response from my dentists surgery.


Ah yes, the flying bug, nasty infection that one... very expensive to treat.
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By T6Harvard
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Hooligan wrote:
PeteSpencer wrote:
For a while I slipped them into the father-to-be waiting room on the labour ward at the old day job but they were deemed an infection risk: Same response from my dentists surgery.


Ah yes, the flying bug, nasty infection that one... very expensive to treat.


And almost impossible to cure
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By irishc180
#1872667
When the magazines stopped doing an index of the flight tests, they became much less useful to me. The Pilot mag search engine for the digital subscription is worse than useless.

So if I buy an aeroplane and wanted to find a copy of an old flight test, looking for a Robin Safari at the moment.... from Pilot May 1972.... the only hope is searching on eBay to see what the cover looks like and root through the boxes of magazines I have or buying one from eBay.
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By kanga
#1872791
At JAM we readily accept as donations (for resale in our shop) old aviation books (including bound volumes of magazines), but not loose magazines - they do not sell! Before Covid we used to have a pile of recent(ish) magazines in the cafe area for people to browse or remove; but these were donated by our own volunteers, and purged to recycling when too old or too tatty. From time to time I take my older (but still recentish) ones to the crew rest room in the restoration hangar.

Our GP and dentist waiting rooms used not to accept any >6 months old, and I think now do not accept any. However, local hospital (general waiting area, and smaller areas outside specialists' suites) used to and may still. Some garages (notably MoT centres and tyre dealerships) take them.
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By kanga
#1872815
Shedder wrote:OK, I'll drop the books into JAM next time I go flying. Is there somewhere to drop them off when the museum is closed? I see it's only open weekends.


:thumright:

Normally weekends only, other than for private group visits which we have not yet restarted ..

[.. with the very occasional exception :)

https://www.glosnews.com/articles/spice ... -a-day-out ]
By Hooligan
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#1872818
irishc180 wrote:So if I buy an aeroplane and wanted to find a copy of an old flight test, looking for a Robin Safari at the moment.... from Pilot May 1972.... the only hope is searching on eBay to see what the cover looks like and root through the boxes of magazines I have or buying one from eBay.


I've just unearthed a copy of it - I can PDF the Safari flight test if you like.
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