Flight back issues online

12 July 2007 in Links, Periodicals by Brett Holman | 4 comments

Via the WWII mailing list comes the welcome news that Flight International is putting its entire run of back issues online, as one searchable PDF per magazine page. So far, the following years have been scanned: 1909-1932, 1935-1940, 1948, 1955-1961, 1964, 1966-1968, 1997-2004. The archive can either be browsed (note that you have to click the “Next page” link to move to the next group of four page listings, which wasn’t immediately obvious to me) or searched by keyword.

The significance of this is that Flight was one of the two major British aviation magazines throughout most of my period, and the longest-running (though not, I think actually the first: Pemberton Billing’s short-lived Aerocraft has that honour). I’ve actually already looked at Flight, which is available at the SLV, so if I would rather have had the harder-to-find Aeroplane put online instead; but Australian holdings of the early issues of Flight are fragmentary so this is good too.

There are no charges for access, at least for now, which is surprising (and welcome). No indications that this will change in future, but it would probably be wise to make the most of this while it’s free!

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  1. Paul Gilster’s avatar

    Paul Gilster on 13 July 2007 at 8:12 am

    What welcome news! Fascinating to look through these issues. It will clearly absorb several hours of my time over the weekend…

  2. Roger Todd’s avatar

    Roger Todd on 19 July 2007 at 2:18 am

    What an absolutely magnificent resource, Brett, thank you for posting this alert to it!

    On the other hand, damn you Holman! Something else to consume hours of my time at work, *cough* sorry, at home on t’internet…

  3. Paul Gilster’s avatar

    Paul Gilster on 19 July 2007 at 3:31 am

    I have to admit that Roger also has a valid point!

  4. Brett Holman’s avatar

    Brett Holman on 19 July 2007 at 7:18 am

    The management of Airminded will not be held responsible for any unemployment resulting from following any links posted here!