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Topic: Aviation Week & Space Technology: 100-Year Archive
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-06-2016 01:15 PM
   
Aviation Week & Space Technology launched its 100-year digital archive today in collaboration with Boeing, the sponsor of the archive. Both companies trace their roots to 1916. The archive includes 4,500 issues and nearly 500,000 pages of articles, photos and advertising. The archive can be viewed by anyone who visits the site and can be searched by year, event, company, personality or author. Among the many interesting features: a Viewpoint from Orville Wright calling for "distinctly marked and carefully prepared landing places," the precursor to the airport, a letter to the magazine from Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, the revelation of "Project X," which became the Boeing 707, pilot reports on hundreds of civil and military aircraft and the Apollo 11 moon landing, which was featured on eight of the magazine's covers in the summer of 1969. |
psloss
Member Posts: 32
From:
Registered: Jun 2011
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posted 01-06-2016 05:36 PM
Great news -- hoping to find some rare shuttle images I haven't seen in 20-30 years. |
tetrox
Member Posts: 142
From: London England
Registered: Jan 2008
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posted 01-10-2016 04:43 AM
Having set up a login to the site, it allows me to choose an issue and view small illustrations of the issue pages.When I click on a page to read it, an Aviation Week pop up appears over the screen asking for what I believe is an Aviation Week subscription login. I wonder if anyone can let me know if this is as far as one can proceed without subscribing to the magazine or whether it is my settings? I realise of course Aviation Week is a commercial venture and either way it is a very interesting resource, just it would be nice to read the articles in more depth. |
pollux
Member Posts: 54
From: London, England
Registered: Dec 2005
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posted 01-10-2016 05:17 AM
The Subscribe Now link takes you to a page that is currently down. They don't make it easy.  From the archive front page, select login, then forgot password. This takes you to an AW&ST top end page. At the top right is an option to register — this one works. This a fantastic resource. I used to read this magazine in my regional library (too specialist for the local library) — virtually the only place I could find detailed accounts of what was going on during the Apollo era. Really takes me back! |
tetrox
Member Posts: 142
From: London England
Registered: Jan 2008
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posted 01-10-2016 05:51 AM
Thank you for your kind fast reply, everything now working. You are correct this looks like a fantastic resource and an overview of space history/development seen in the context of the time. |
rjurek349
Member Posts: 1190
From: Northwest Indiana
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 01-10-2016 06:18 AM
I used my Aviation Week digital password on the database, and it is fantastic. What an amazing research tool! I am working on a couple of projects now for which this is already making the research much easier. Bravo to Aviation Week and Boeing for making this available. |
cspg
Member Posts: 6210
From: Geneva, Switzerland
Registered: May 2006
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posted 01-10-2016 12:15 PM
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Originally posted by pollux:
Really takes me back!
Stumbled across Aviation Week at my high school library, then I got my dad to subscribe for me because in the early eighties, this was the only source of information about the shuttle. |
waa49
Member Posts: 91
From: Neu-Isenburg, Germany, Hessen
Registered: Sep 2015
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posted 01-11-2016 03:45 AM
Great news about AW&ST. I have created a "free membership" but I have now a problem to read the articles.Having set up a login to the site, it allows me to choose an issue and view small illustrations of the issue pages. When I click on a page or the "zoom + symbol" or the article name to read it, nothing happened. Please can anybody help me? |
Chariot412
Member Posts: 156
From: Lockport, NY, 14094
Registered: Jun 2011
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posted 01-11-2016 05:29 PM
I was lucky enough to be selected as one of the Editor's choices for the AW&ST 2015 photo contest. If you can access the archive, it's in the last issue of 2015 and the picture is called "Flower Power". |
waa49
Member Posts: 91
From: Neu-Isenburg, Germany, Hessen
Registered: Sep 2015
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posted 01-13-2016 03:06 AM
Answer from AW&ST: Because the site is used as a portal for all the various Aviation Products you will be limited to what you can view and since it serves as a portal many of the articles will not be viewable unless you are a paid subscriber to Aviation Week or one of its various other products. |
Tom Rednour
Member Posts: 49
From: Beacon, NY 12508
Registered: Dec 2014
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posted 01-25-2016 08:36 PM
This is a phenomenal resource. I've been going through it in yearly chunks to make my own index of interesting items for my Tumblr blog. Couple hours in the morning scanning the early months of the 60s — to keep in "time" with the blog. I've posted a few ads and today, the early GE Lunar Lander drawing (1/1/62 issue). Links are provided for the whole issue. Wish I could post the longer articles...It's been enlightening watching the SST, 747, C-5A, Concorde, MOL and other machines being developed (and in some cases, cancelled!) over time. It's also neat to see the rise of hybrid micro circuits, which I was heavily involved with at one time. I'd say the typical ratio of stories is 50% military, 40% civilian, and 10% space. When there was an Apollo mission, highlights go way up for that issue (or more). I especially like the recruitment ads in the early-mid 60s when Gemini and Apollo contractors were hiring everybody. |
Richard Easton
Member Posts: 175
From: Winnetka, IL USA
Registered: Jun 2006
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posted 02-05-2016 05:03 PM
This is a wonderful resource. Thank you Robert for bringing it to our attention. |
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