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The book's title was suggested by a female customer of a tavern called the Lion's Head in New York City's Greenwich Village neighborhood. [6] Having recently completed the manuscript, Bouton and Shecter were discussing the book at the bar, lamenting the fact that with the book ready for print they still had not arrived on an acceptable name. [6]
The Victor was a British comic paper published weekly by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. The Victor ran for 1,657 issues from 25 January 1961 until it ceased publication on 21 November 1992. [1]
Collins earned his private pilot certificate in 1952 and subsequently logged over 20,000 hours in general aviation airplanes. He was the son of Leighton Collins (20 April 1902 — 16 January 1995), [ 2 ] a well-known aviation writer, pioneering flight safety advocate and founder of Air Facts magazine.
Flying, sometimes styled FLYING, is an aviation magazine published since 1927 and called Popular Aviation prior to 1942, as well as Aeronautics for a brief period. It is read by pilots, aircraft owners, aviation enthusiasts and aviation-oriented executives in business, commercial and general aviation markets worldwide.
In October 2009, Key Publishing bought Spain's leading aviation magazine Avion Revue, and its Latin American (Mexico and Argentina) editions, [2] formerly owned by Motor Presse - Ibérica (a division of Europe's largest publishing firm - Gruner + Jahr). This magazine, along with Avion & Piloto, is published by Key Publishing Spain.
The magazine typically contains a news section, a number of flight tests and buyers guides, a section detailing what is involved in various flying activities, an 'adventure flying' section, an engineering section, and a historic aircraft news section. It is also the only UK GA magazine to include content on rotary-wing aircraft in every edition.
White's first book, Vulcan 607 (about the first Operation Black Buck raid in the Falklands Conflict 1982), was published by Bantam Press in 2006. [2] [3] It was followed in 2009 by Phoenix Squadron [4] [5] and, in 2010 Storm Front, about the Dhofar War in Oman in the early seventies.
Professional Pilot (or ProPilot) is a monthly aerospace publication produced in the United States focusing on business aviation, including issues affecting pilots, managers and dispatchers. Editorial content includes pilot technique, airmanship, operations, weather, reader surveys, helicopters , airplanes and avionics .