Flight Archive

I suspect most of you have used the Flight Magazine Archive. If you haven't its here

www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/index.html

There is an awful lot there and much of it very useful but the search has a nasty habit of bring up ads with your keyword in it rather than articles.

Of the stuff I have found this is by far the most intriguing www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1954/1954%20-%202185.html

The pre-WW2 ones seem to be the most informative airfields-wise. Once you get to the 70s onwards it appears to be more industry focused. There are some great pics of early Heathrow and Gatwick as well. I wonder where the original photos went?

There was an article about a potential airfield at Sidcup (SE London or Kent for the older ones). Being a commuter area with little open space I wondered where it would go but the I remembered that most of the surrounding housing was built in the 1930s so that probably knocked it on the head.

All we need now is the Aeroplane archive or the old Aviation News whose first airfield history was Cowley! I never knew it was an airfield until then!

Was the "Air Pilot" a monthly magazine? I have seen references to it but the name seems to vary, somtimes "Aero Pilot" or "The Air Pilot" etc.

kebecker wrote:

there is a great article about the post war Dorval Airport, I am thinking that these are all copy right so we cannot use them here, correct?

I suspect that is correct, although I have sneaked a few through. Maybe you could post a link under overseas?

I did think about posting the link to a 1933 issue which listed most of the airfields in the UK and included maps and layouts of a few as well but I will have to find it again!

Thanks Hugo, thats the one. I liked the lists of Towns that expressed an interest. I once spent hours going throught the archive page by page as the search missed quite a lot.

MM, I have often wondered if you copy a map exactly is that allowed or do you have to add your own "style".

Look out for the Helliwells ads from 1939!