Favorite Aviation Magazine

I used to love Air Progress. That was an awesome magazine. Gene Smith (who was kind of a bag - but owned a pretty Monocoupe), Budd Davison (who is a really nice man), Jeff Ethyl who wrote about warbirds - it was an awesome magazine.
 
JordanD said:
I think Bill Cox is the ferry guy you're talking about. I'll second Budd Davission, his stuff is always pretty engaging.
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Cox writes about real life flying experiences. Davisson writes about life using aviation as the backdrop. The big thing is one comes away from the articles with more than just numbers which is the guts of most flight eval articles and technical publications. No feel. No smell. Just sort of sterile paragraph after paragraph. the personality of Cox and Davisson show up in the articles and both are top notch. Steve Wilkinson is another writer that puts together some very good stories.

Good writing is the main thing, not the magazine and sometimes a magazine limps along based on reputation after a good writer has quit or moved on.
 
There's one guy at Business & Commercial Aviation who's pretty good. Can't ever remember his name though...

;)
 
My favorites are Airliner World, Airways, and Flying although i still do really enjoy reading Flight Training from AOPA!
 
SteveC said:
There's one guy at Business & Commercial Aviation who's pretty good. Can't ever remember his name though...

;)
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Yeah, I read his article this month.

Soaring is a good one.

And I read my AOPA every month.

Plus what ever I find on board.
 
WacoFan said:
I really like Martha Lunken in flying. She gave a friend of mine a checkride for PPL in my friends 1931 Waco RNF last fall. She is a funny writer. I like her. Kind of like Bax, but more experienced pilot. Somewhere between Bax and Morgan I would say.
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+1 for Lunken. FAA needs more like her.

+1 for the days of Bax and Morgan, too.

And Budd Davisson.
 
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