Editor Murdo Morrison Frequency Weekly Publisher Melanie Robson | Categories Aerospace Circulation 43,000 (June 2007) Year founded 1909 | |
Flight International (or simply Flight) is a weekly magazine focused on aerospace, published in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1909 as "A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport", it is the world's oldest continuously published aviation news magazine.
Flight International is published by Reed Business Information. Competitors include Jane's Information Group and Aviation Week. Former editors of, and contributors to, Flight include Bill Gunston and John W. R. Taylor.
History
Claiming to be the first aeronautical weekly in the world, Flight first appeared on 2 January 1909 as the official journal of the Aero Club of the United Kingdom (later the Royal Aero Club). The magazine was an offshoot of the The Automotor Journal. On 4 January 1962 it was renamed Flight International.