Online Community of Pilots and Aircraft Owners

The Magazine Collector is a social network connecting those who enjoy “Things With Wings.”

Welcome to The Magazine Collector!

You are probably like most other pilots or aircraft owners who “caught the flying bug” because of a magazine. Surprisingly, it sometimes only takes a photo or article about a classic aircraft to get hooked. Maybe it was 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) planes that set off a spark inside you, which eventually ignited your aviation lifestyle.

You eventually bought or built a plane, perhaps then joined a flying club, and even started to put aside some copies of aviation magazines that held your particular interest. Now and then, in a quiet moment, you thumb through those pages…those pictures are a pilot’s soul food. The articles transport your mind to the cockpit of those planes, even if those stories are about aircraft that last flew before you were born. Like those hooked on cars, flying is an avocation that also works when performed from an armchair. That spark inside you is imagination, and that’s one human factor that magazines provide in spades. It’s what initially made us want to learn how to fly, and what keeps refueling our enjoyment of flight.

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 website 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.

Online Magazine Dealer Marketplace

Connecting buyers/sellers, and collectors with other collectors of model aviation periodicals and collectable modeling paraphernalia…that’s what The Magazine Collector online community is all about.

Welcome to The Magazine Collector!

Sellers of scarce and rare aviation magazines (as well as books and aviation paraphernalia) are the lifeblood of The Magazine Collector website. As an online community of aviation magazine collectors, this website’s users rely on dealers like you to meet the demands collectors have in growing their holdings. For retailers like you, its targeted audience differentiates this website from others promoting the buying and selling of aviation magazines.

The site is designed to provide not just visibility for magazine purveyors, but to offer web pages like our Buy/Sell, where both buyers and sellers have an open marketplace. Further, both the Forum and Resources pages give you a place to showcase your expertise and know-how to our collector audience. That aviation audience encompasses a wide range of enthusiasts, from pilots and aviation associations, to modelers and museums/libraries. It can be said that if it has to do with “Things With Wings,” our The Magazine Collector community has something to offer. More importantly, we solicit new members through aggressive ongoing marketing campaigns. Frequent press releases and e-mail blasts also contribute to increasing our online traffic through site visibility and awareness.

A No-Fees Marketplace

From a business perspective, using our online presence as part of your marketing/sales strategy is straightforward. There are no fees at all. You post your own promotional content and manage it yourself on the Buy/Sell and Forum pages. Photos and images are allowed. You can link to and from your website, too. You can publish to other pages, including posting your own guest blogs! We even provide a detailed how-to Member User Manual to help you get started.  

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.

Read an observer's review of our site at:  (http://www.scribd.com/doc/50314778/The-Magazine-Collector-Website-Review).

Spend a few minutes becoming familiar with this site. Except for the members-only Buy/Sell and Forum pages, the entire site is open to the public and searched by Google, Yahoo!, Bing, etc.

You can help make this site prosper as a collectables marketplace 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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Like Magazine Collectors, Aircraft Restorers Preserve History

Restoring a vintage aircraft captures the quintessence of what The Magazine Collector is all about.

Welcome Aircraft Restorers!

If there are magicians of aviation, they are the vintage aircraft restorers. Without these professionals, museums would disappear. Air shows would be boring displays of contemporary mass-produced planes. Young Eagles would be deprived of seeing the grandeur of a real vintage airplane. Ironically, photos in the magazines our collector-members archive and preserve would be as close as anyone would ever come to actually experiencing most vintage planes, were it not for the magic that the restorers perform.

The Magazine Collector website supports aircraft restorers, and would like to be an online showplace where the restoration magicians display their magic. Photos, videos, and text depicting a restoration would reveal the technological, aeronautical, and fabrication expertise that goes into either a static-display or flying machine.

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, fabricators of homebuilts, aircraft restorers, members of flying clubs, air show 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 website at http://www.scribd.com/doc/50314204/The-Magazine-Collector-An-Alternative-to-Recycling

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.

Online Community Presents Its Own Static Virtual Air Shows

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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Welcome Aviation Organizations and Associations!

The Magazine Collector is an online social network connecting those who enjoy “Things With Wings.”

Are Your Members Magazine Collectors, Too?

Some of our members are likely members of your organization as well…that’s inevitable. Your association appeals to its members’ interest in aviation, and The Magazine Collector taps into one manifestation of that – reading and collecting aviation periodicals. Admittedly, there are likely crossovers among our member communities. As communities, aviation organizations and associations like yours have a shared commonality of goals with The Magazine Collector.

To show how closely we both are aligned, your website may offer information on aviation resources (see our Resources page). You may provide a discussion group page (ours is the Forum, only viewable by members). Our associational similarities have mutual aviation commonalities: Serving the needs and expectations of a shared aviation-membership community.

That said, we would welcome your organizaton as a member of our online historical aviation collector community. Please consider using our Resources page, for example, to expose our members to your community’s resources. As another example, by your association joining The Magazine Collector, your executives can post guest blogs as a way to create more awareness of your community on our site.

Read an observer's review of our site on Scribd (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 author, 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:

·         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

·         Buy and sell magazines and aviation paraphernalia on the Buy/Sell page

o   Includes a free e-mail blast promoting your offering

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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An Online Portal for Aviation Modelers

The Magazine Collector community supports builders of static and flying models

Welcome to The Magazine Collector!

Being a model aviation enthusiast is almost synonymous with magazine collecting. What model builder – whether of static-display or flying aircraft – doesn’t rely on hobby-related information published in specialty magazines?

Just as the earliest generation of pre-WWII modelers thrived on the plans and latest modeling products in the pages of Model Airplane News, and thrilled to the aerial adventures printed in Air Trails, the popularity of modeling experienced another “Golden Age” after the war. This second renaissance of modeling brought forth publications such as American Aircraft Modeler, Model Airplane News experienced a resurgence, and there were also Flying Models, R/C Modeler, Model Builder, and Scale R/C Modeler. This rebirth of modeling was so strong that American Aircraft Modeler hit a circulation of over 250,000 copies in the mid-1970s!

Today copies of these, and other hobby magazines like Scale Modeler, are (or are becoming) true collectables. It would seem that there’s an untapped market for these periodicals. Supply is perhaps driven by the inevitable hoarding decades ago of these titles in modelers’ attics and garages. Casual observations point to buying/selling/trading mostly happening among modelers at the local club level. For a collector, that’s somewhat limiting, of course.

A Global Online Modeling Marketplace

On the demand side of the collectables equation, The Magazine Collector is providing a global online marketplace (the Buy/Sell page) on which collectors can post their want lists. Such postings enable magazine dealers to respond by providing collectors with hard-to-find copies that are essential to successfully growing a collection. Even if you are not a collector, per se, you might be looking for a specific copy of a magazine, perhaps one that published a set of plans you want. Connecting buyers/sellers, and collectors with other collectors of model aviation periodicals and collectable modeling paraphernalia…that’s what our online community is all about!

Read an observer’s review of our site at http://www.scribd.com/doc/50314204/The-Magazine-Collector-An-Alternative-to-Recycling

Our founder is a trophy-winning modeler, as well as a retired aviation author, publisher, and editor.

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.

Online Community for Owners/Pilots of Homebuilt Aircraft

The Magazine Collector is a social network connecting those who enjoy “Things With Wings.”

Welcome to The Magazine Collector!

You are probably like most other pilots or aircraft owners who “caught the flying bug” because of a magazine. Surprisingly, it sometimes only takes a photo or article about a classic aircraft to get hooked. Maybe it was 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) planes that set off a spark inside you, which eventually ignited your aviation lifestyle.

You eventually built (or bought) a plane, perhaps then joined a flying club, and even started to put aside some copies of aviation magazines that held your particular interest. Now and then, in a quiet moment, you thumb through those pages…those pictures are a pilot’s soul food. The articles transport your mind to the cockpit of those planes, even if those stories are about aircraft that last flew before you were born. Like those hooked on cars, flying is an avocation that also works when performed from an armchair. That spark inside you is imagination, and that’s one human factor that magazines provide in spades. It’s what initially made us want to learn how to fly, and what keeps refueling our enjoyment of flight.

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 on Scribd (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.