AIR TRAILS MAGAZINE- page 1
This magazine changed its name to 'Bill Barnes Air Trails', but this was simplified to 'Air Trails' from the February 1937 (Vol.7 No.5) issue. With the last name change the proportion of fiction was sharply reduced, and after September 1939 the fictional articles were dropped entirely. From the August 1942 issue (Vol.18 No.5) the amended title 'Air Trails Pictorial' was introduced. The name was changed again, to 'Air Trails and Science Frontiers' between January 1947 (Vol.27 No.4) and September 1947 (Vol.28 No.1), but reverted to 'Air Trails Pictorial' the following month. The simplified title 'Air trails' was again adopted with the September 1950 (Vol.34 No.6) issue, before changing to it's final title 'Air Trails - Hobbies for Young Men' from April 1954 (Vol.42 No.1) until the final issue of October 1955 (Vol.45 No.1).
For most of it's existence it featured articles of interest to young men, including gliding, aircraft modelling (with scale plans) and a few technical articles. Most issues had 80-100 pages each. The editors were: 1928 - 1931 Paul Chadwick, 1931 - 1937 F. Orlin Tremaine, 1937 - 1954 William Winter.
Air Trails Index listed by Aircraft
 1937 |
| Year | Month | Condition | Price |
|---|
| 1937 | February | Bill Barnes novel - "Ring of Death"; Aero Engine Principles; Rocket Ships; Frank Hawks; Dirigibles, complete | $6.00 | |
| March | Bill Barnes novel - "Purple Fez"; Modern Motors; Supermarine Spitfire; Loire 46, complete | $6.00 | |
 1938 |
| Year | Month | Condition | Price |
|---|
| 1938 | May | Bill Barnes novel - "Saver of Souls"; Light Plane Flying; Army Air Corps; Substratosphere Ship, complete | $6.00 | |
| June | Bill Barnes novel - "Bill Barnes Takes A Holiday"; Ex-Soldier of Fortune; 1938 Light Plane Survey; complete | $6.00 | |
| August | Bill Barnes novel - "Wings Over Trujillo"; Germany Flies Again; Junkers 86K; Diesel in Aviation, complete | $6.00 | |
| October | "Charger Goes To Sydney"; Flying Aptitude; Jump!; Flight in Hang Glider, complete | $6.00 | |
 1939 |
| Year | Month | Condition | Price |
|---|
| 1939 | January | "Make Way For An Apprentice"; Radio Homing Pigon; Farewell to Balloon Racing; Metal Ships, page 63-64 replaced with a copy,
otherwise complete. | $4.50 | |
| August | Air Corps Medical Exam; Observations Planes; Boarder Patrol; Balloon Barrage, complete | $6.00 | |
| October | Lady Birds; Flying in Iraq; Nationals 1939; Knockabout plans; complete | $6.00 | |
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