Yesterday's Airlines: One Year On

Wow - a year of blogging about the airlines of the world using my 1:400 scale collection has come around so fast I almost forgot about it! It's been a huge amount of work (220 blog posts so far), but at the same time has added a lot to my enjoyment of collecting. Yesterday's Airlines has also been a great platform for meeting other likeminded people. Here's an update of the blog so far.

First the Thanks

One of the best things that the blog and site in general has enabled me to do is to host other people's work to create a pretty unique resource dedicated to civil aviation and the models too. I'd like to thank the guys who've provided their excellent services to help Yesterday's Airlines grow. People like:

• Jim Kruggel and Andy Payne, who've provided excellent histories of several real airports.
• David Williamson who has graciously provided me with fabulous stickers.
• Steve (aka Republic DC-9) who gave me the idea and push to start the mould reviews.
  

I'm glad to say there are hopefully more collaborations in line for the near future. The site has also helped me to gain the courage and credibility to get published so its thanks to Airliner World for using some of my content in their magazine like the Mexican Aviation history piece.

The Content

In terms of the blog I've been trying to provide a broad spectrum of posts on a wide range of aircraft types. Above is a breakdown of what I've got through so far. As you can see its a fairly even spread with the 707 and 747 featuring most followed by the DC-8, DC-10, 727, Viscount, One-Eleven, 737 Classic and A300. That's not too surprising given that most of my collection is of classic airliners. Here are some of the fleets that have featured in the blog and mould reviews so far:

Posts by Month

Despite the classics I've been building up a large modern Chinese fleet and also a modern Russian sub-section so modern Airbus and Boeings also feature. In terms of which regions I've been posting about you can see the two largest feature areas of my collection come in top:

I've also been quite prolific though in recent months I've been putting up less posts as other aspects of the site (including the airport blog) have been getting attention. Even so I try and post a full blog post every two days or so and nowadays they are much more involved than when I started writing.

Posts by Region

Anyway I hope you've enjoyed the journey so far. As you may have noticed I have just added a donation button to the site. Though the cost is mainly in terms of my time hosting the site costs $100 a year so it isn't free. If you enjoy the site and would like to contribute to its survival please donate whatever you can spare. I hope to be here in a year's time with a further update if people still enjoy the material. As always comments, be they praise, criticism, mistakes or general chitchat are welcome. Thanks for visiting.

Richard