Aeronautics (magazine)

Aeronautics is The Title of three unrelated aviation magazines published for the first in the United States and for the second and third the United Kingdom from the early 20th century to the 1960s.

American magazine (1907–1915)

Aeronautics magazine was an American periodical founded in 1907 in New York City, originally titled The American Magazine of Aeronautics. In 1908 it shortened its name to Aeronautics, adopting the subtitle The American Magazine of Aerial Navigation (later ...of Aerial Locomotion).

In 1914 it became the official organ of both the Aero Club of Pennsylvania and the Aeronautical Society of America.

The magazine suspended publication between late 1914 and early 1915, resuming briefly before ceasing altogether in July 1915. It is regarded as one of the earliest dedicated aviation periodicals in the United States.

British weekly journal (1907–1916)

Independently, another periodical titled Aeronautics also began publishing in 1907, in London, founded by Major B. F. S. Baden-Powell and edited by John H. Ledeboer, and tyled as "A Weekly Journal Devoted to the Technique of Aeronautics".

This British weekly covered aircraft design, aerodynamics, competitions, and military aviation in the years leading up to and during the First World War. Ledeboer remained editor until 1916, after which references to the journal largely disappear, suggesting that publication ended during wartime.

Later British magazine (1939–1962)

A new Aeronautics magazine appeared in Britain in 1939, founded and edited by Major Oliver Stewart, a former First World War fighter pilot and noted aviation journalist. This version absorbed the readership of Popular Flying and took on a more serious, defense-oriented tone at the onset of the Second World War.