The Magazine Collector is a social network connecting those who enjoy “Things With Wings.”
Welcome to The Magazine Collector!
Most pilots or aircraft owners “caught the flying bug” at an air show. Whether an informal local fly-in or a full-blown professional air show, that first up close experience always gets them hooked. Those fortunate enough to experience at an air show replicas of classic planes such as Jimmy Doolittle’s Gee Bee R-1 racer, the Spirit of St. Louis (Ryan Monoplane), Howard Hughes’ H-1 Racer, “Winnie Mae” (Lockheed Vega), or any one of those “Golden Age” (circa 1919-1939) came away from the show with a spark inside that eventually ignited an aviation lifestyle.
While there’s just no substitute for that in-your-face air show experience, aviation magazines have historically been a surrogate. Now and then, in a quiet moment, the same experience is achieved by thumbing through pages with articles that transport the mind right into the cockpit. But it is the air shows that reign supreme when it comes to refueling our enjoyment of flight. In a way, magazines are static virtual air shows, and this website is dedicated to preserving that.
Classic Aviation Periodicals
The quintessential imagination of flight appeared in the pages of pre-WWII magazines. Air Trails is the de facto standard by which other aviation pulp magazines of that day are measured. That magazine is universally acknowledged as having made aviation a keystone of our country’s culture. If you are skeptical, read one or two of the adventure novels published in Air Trails. The aircraft depicted and their pilots were the real stuff of a pilot’s imagination…they were pure fiction, ergo totally presented as flights of the reader’s imagination. The magazines captured the pure essence of the armchair experience of flight. That fulfillment of a pilot’s imagination is what makes collecting historical magazines so worthwhile to pilots and aircraft owners.
A Portal to “Things With Wings”
The Magazine Collector website is a portal to fulfilling your innate fantasies of flight. Our site supports a community of people like you who love “Things With Wings.” Not only are our members pilots, aircraft owners, homebuilders, aircraft restorers, members of flying clubs, airshow enthusiasts, etc., they are preservers of that spark inside us all that fuels and keeps our imaginations flying high.
Read an observer’s review of our site at http://www.scribd.com/doc/50314778/The-Magazine-Collector-Website-Review.
Our founder is an acknowledged rare books and periodicals collector. Also, being a retired aviation publisher and editor also helps keep The Magazine Collector focused.
You can help make this site prosper as an aviation-lovers’ portal by signing up as a member.
Members and Non-Members Welcome
Membership is FREE, and by joining you get to:
· Buy and sell magazines and aviation paraphernalia on the Buy/Sell page
o Includes a free e-mail blast promoting your offering
· Engage other members on the discussion Forum page
· Post your own guest blogs
· Contribute to the Resources page
· Submit photos and images to the Gallery page
Click here to sign up as a Member.
You don’t necessarily have to become a member of The Magazine Collector community to get access to and use of this website. Non-members can:
· Access all web pages, except members-only Forum and Buy/Sell
· Pose questions on the Q&A page
· Get advance e-mail notification of the latest happenings at The Magazine Collector
Click here to sign up as a Non-Member.
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