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Airline History Blog

Yesterday's Airlines: Two Years In

10/11/2016

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Another year has passed at Yesterday's Airlines, which is just about to reach its 2nd birthday. I'm happy to be able to report that the site has been growing well. In fact including blog posts there are now over 500 pages of material. So what has been happening in 2016, what were the highlights and lowlights, where has my focus been and what is coming in 2017?
The Annual Appeal
As Wikipedia says during its annual appeal 'if everyone reading gave just $2 then this fund raiser would be over within a day'. Well the site's anniversary comes at the same time as the site renewal fee. I'm not on the breadline (though I do owe myself a fair whack for model purchases) but I would like the site to be able to at least pay for itself so I'd like to ask for your help. If you enjoy the site and want me to continue writing please think about whether you can donate something to keep it going. It doesn't have to be much - anything helps. Please donate a few bucks using the Paypal button on the right if you can afford to. Thanks!

Any money raised will go into paying the site fee or helping to create site content.

Highlights of the Year
Above: Some of the Boeing 747s that featured in the blog during Jumbo January
This year has been a momentous one for the site and my collection. Jumbo January was a result of a massive 747 heavy collection sale and resulted in some of my favourite blog posts. This was followed in March by Andy Payne's guest blog post regarding VARIG flight 254. This excellent post and diorama has proved very popular since - thanks Andy.

I also have dabbled this year in reviews of the manufacturer's outputs in 2015 and the first part of 2016. Again these posts have been popular and I personally find them very interesting.

I moved house in April and the new hangar space is awesome. Even better the majority of the collection is now behind glass and much better looked after whilst I also now have more space for airport model construction. The windfall of a massive collection passing through my hands in July was a major excitement and highlight.

Other blog series that I am proud of include the six parter series on United DC-8s, recently followed up by a two parter on Delta Stretch Eights.

In terms of collecting itself the continued rise of Panda models has been great, especially considering how monotonous a lot of the releases from the other manufacturers have become.
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A portion of the new hangar space with the cat proof glass cabinets
Lowlights of the Year

The intrusion of one of our cats into the hangar space, and the resulting damage, was a major 'annoyance', though it did at least lead indirectly to the purchase of the glass cabinets. The other major issue was the redesign of Airliners.net which in the process wiped out all the image links to anet photos in older blog posts. A friend baled me out with a technical solution but I still haven't been able to go back through all the older posts and fix the issue. I probably never will get to all of them, though over half have been fixed up. Though Airliners.net seems to have sorted itself out the image links are still not working on my site or the forums.
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Cats and models don't mix. This was only about half of the damage. I've only been able to replace 2 of the busted models so far :(
Traffic

Pleasingly the site's popularity continues to rise. Yesterday's Airlines gained its own Facebook page, which has 224 likes at the moment. I share posts to 8 model related Facebook Groups and this has driven readership strongly in the right direction. Nowadays Facebook is the strongest platform for readers. I'm also glad to say that Google searches are also providing fertile ground for attracting new visitors too and these two sources have easily eclipsed trafic from the forums (DAC and 400ScaleHangar), which sadly seem to be slowly dying. Regardless Yesterday's Airlines comfortably pulls in over a 1000 page hits and 200+ unique visitors most days. I appreciate your reading - though it'd be nice to get more comments :)
Content
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Aircraft on the blog in the past year by type
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Airline History Blog Entries month by month
747s and DC-8s have been the most popular types in the blog the past year thanks to the Jumbo January and the United DC-8 series. There has been a decent spread of other types, though regretfully some like the A310, 757, Convairs in general and others have been totally absent. I'll try to remedy that in the coming year.

The geographical spread is slanted towards the two nations that make up the majority of my collection (the USA and China). Despite this however there has been a decent smattering of other continents. Overall I'm pleased with the spread and will continue to highlight some of the more obscure classics and new Chinese airlines in the coming months.

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Blog entries by region
This year I've posted 110 blog posts on the main Yesterday's Airlines blog, which is only half of what I had done the year before. Offsetting this however is the fact that the posts nowadays tend to be far more lengthy and the second blog on the site has had itself 38 additional entries.
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Content on the 2nd Blog on Yesterday's Airlines by month and grouping
The meltdown at Airliners.net also led me to going over and rewriting most of my mould reviews, which has been a huge amount of work. On top of that new areas for my Xin Long Airport diorama and my old 1/600 airport Imogenia have also been created.
As Real As It Gets

One of the best things in 2016 has been my partnership with Raimond Schulz as a place to showcase his wonderful 'As Real As It Gets' dioramas. I love these clever setups and have been really pleased to be able to share them from my site. Thanks Raimond.
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The Future?

So what does the next year hold? Hopefully lots more of the same, though the pace has been quite hardgoing and I might have to slow down a bit. I'm hopeful to be able to do more mould reviews (767, 777 and maybe even starting the huge task of 747 reviews) and there are literally hundreds of blog entries I'd like to write. I also plan on keeping a close eye on the manufacturer's output of models and GSE. On the airport building side of things there is major work ongoing at Xin Long which will more than double the space so stay tuned for that. One of the great things about the site so far has been collaboration with friends like Andy, Jim and Raimond. I'm hopeful to be able to bring more of that kind of thing to the site in the new year too.

I hope you've enjoyed reading over the past year and will continue to enjoy it into the next. Thanks and please if you can afford to swing a few bucks my way to keep the site going I'd appreciate it.

Richard
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Robert Higgs
13/11/2016 08:20:18 pm

Richard your site is superb, I've just sent in a small donation. My main interest is Australian stuff from the 50s and 60s, and I have mainly TAA and international turboprops and pistons in my collection. Both 1/2200 and 1/400. The next thing will be that TEAL DC6. Keep up your great work.

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RStretton
13/11/2016 09:57:19 pm

Thank you Robert that is extremely generous and I'm glad you enjoy the site.

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Robert
14/11/2016 06:43:33 pm

Hi! I am wondering where you buy the Panda Models and where you can see what they have released and future releases. I agree whit you that thay make a superb 737-800 and would like to get my hands on some of them. Regards Robert

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RStretton
14/11/2016 07:15:03 pm

Some can be found on eBay but I buy mine from Skywings taobao shop. Check out this link. I actually use the middleman engtaobao to buy them since I don't speak Mandarin: https://maifeiji.world.taobao.com/category-1070867363.htm?spm=a312a.7700824.w4010-2785664664.199.l5EFBj&search=y&parentCatId=38550224&parentCatName=%B0%B4%C6%B7%C5%C6%B7%D6%C0%E0&catName=PandaModel+1%3A400#bd

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Jérôme link
14/3/2017 01:15:11 am

Congratulations from France for this huge work.
Your site became very quickly a new reference for 1/400 fans.
I read each new article and I can't imagine all the time needed to write all this content.
I don't know if you'll be able to continue at this rythm for the next years, but congratulation for all what you've done.
And...more Air France s'il vous plait :)

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