If you want a good dose of nostalgia, the Google Books project has archived thousands of old Flying Magazines. Check them out here: http://books.google.com/books/serial/ISSN:00154806?rview=1. Be warned, you might spend hours reading about when your plane rolled off the factory floor and smiling at some of the old ads. Looks like they have about every issue scanned in, in good quality, from 1927 through 2008. Pretty cool stuff for free.

Couple of cool ads:


Here is a REAL shortwing...


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Love the Tri-Pacer ads...


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I have always loved the "Land-o-Matic" pitch to the non-flyers....
I think Cirrus took lessons on advertising from this type of hyperbole.

ANYONE can do this....
lc

Those are awesome! Love this sort of stuff.

Man, that "Letter from Daddy" ad is really strange...

Ever seen a tricycle cub in the wild?


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These are awesome!

The Flying mags on Google are going to ruin a lot of my spare time.

lesuther wrote:The Flying mags on Google are going to ruin a lot of my spare time.

Me too. I was finished with my work an hour ago and have been perusing 195s editions of Flying...

Here's a few that I had posted on the C170 wiki long ago:

http://cessna170.backcountrypilot.org/w ... rtisements

We should make a history section here though and include these.

Scolopax wrote:I was finished with my work an hour ago and have been perusing 195s editions of Flying...

These magazines have kept me an hour from being done with work for the last 4 hours.

Brett

Lordy, this has the potential of sucking away actual flying time. My wife may have to hide the keys to the computer on sunny weekends so I will actually drive to the airport to get my fix.

If Google Books makes the various old '50's & 60's hot rod/custom car mags available on line.....
and plus if they do various other short lived flying mags too, when I do get shuffled away to the old folks home, I'll be happy to stay in my room and burn the midnight digits.....

...and when I do fall asleep I'll be grinnin'...
lc

Here's another gem. Not from Flying mag, but from the April 1956 issue of Popular Mechanics.







That's gotta be a nose heavy little tripacer...

Here's a couple more...





Enjoy!