Air Pictorial
 Air Pictorial,July 1983 | |
| Categories | Aviation magazines |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Founded | 1939 |
| Final issue | 2002 |
| Company | HPC Publishing |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Air Pictorialwas a Britishaviationmagazinecovering contemporary and historicalmilitaryandcivil aviationtopics. By 2002, when the magazine was renamedAviation News(a title that had been incorporated into it six years previously),Air Pictorialcomprised 64 volumes containing 620 issues between them.[1]
Initially published asAir Defence CorpsGazettein 1939,[2]it was renamed toAir Training CorpsGazette: The Journal of the Air Training Corpsin 1941, resetting the issue numbering to Vol.1 No.1 in the process. In 1946, the title was changed toAir Reserve Gazette,restarting the numbering at Vol.1 No.1 again. In January 1947 the numbering was reset to Vol.9 No.1, reflecting the cumulative volumes from 1939 to ease confusion.[3]In 1951Air Pictorial & Air Reserve Gazettewas adopted, and in April 1958 the "& Air Reserve Gazette" part of the title was dropped, becomingAir Pictorial.[2]
The magazine was produced at various times by theAir League,Rolls House Publishing Co., Profile Books and HPC Publishing, the latter being base inEast Sussex.[2]
References
[edit]- ^Air Pictorial indexArchived2012-09-11 atarchive.todayThe Aviation Index
- ^abc"Aviation Magazines".Aircraft International.Retrieved31 January2016.
- ^UK Aircraft MagazinesArchived2011-03-21 at theWayback MachineAeroflight.
External links
[edit]- List of Air Pictorial issues with article listingviahttps://web.archive.org/web/20110110021804/http://www.theaviationindex.com/
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