Back in its heyday, Playboy paid well above the going rate for articles, which resulted in extremely high quality writing from some of the best freelancers in the business.
"I read it for the articles" used to be credible.
This. Exactly this. Decades later, I barely remember the girls. You can find naked girls anywhere. But they published world class articles from world class writers that are reprinted and quoted to this day.
I had an absolutely insane ex-employer who kept an entire massive box of his personal playboys in the warehouse we worked out of. He once told me I should read them because the articles were really good. I thought he was fucking with me until now. He probably still was, he definitely wasn't holding onto them for their literary content
I always saw this as a layered joke, because the articles are actually really good. Or at least they were up through the mid-90s. Surprisingly feminism-friendly, too.
What's funny is that the French and British ones look downright plausible. Definitely something they'd build in the late 30s.
Hell, the British one is literally a Hampden with two more engines and an even taller fuselage.
Brock Yates is also a very well known automotive journalist. At first I was confused, until I read the post title and realized this was a section in Playboy.
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I remember having a playboy magazine folded on the display panel in the M1 I was on. Benefits of being a tank driver is that you're somewhat by yourself and laying down.
Still cleaner than Starlords space ship.
It's so funny how there's so many absurd plane designs and then on the last page there's just random ass cheeks.
Playboy is only for the classiest of articles and non-credible discussion.
Why are there articles about experimental aircraft in fucking Playboy
Because Hefner knew what real, honest, red blooded American plane fuckers wanted to fap to, next question?
And an article about women’s liberation
The backside is the illustration for the article on women's lib!
the fine text says equal pay?...right on. day car centers...terrific. but lets not deny the sexual attraction you fine sexy mammas\~
An article by Joan Rivers no less, surprisingly topical.
Airplanes, abortion, and ass cheeks. God Bless Playboy.
So you really do read it for the articles?
That's what I tell my mom.
Back in its heyday, Playboy paid well above the going rate for articles, which resulted in extremely high quality writing from some of the best freelancers in the business. "I read it for the articles" used to be credible.
I bought them for the pictures. I kept them for the articles.
This. Exactly this. Decades later, I barely remember the girls. You can find naked girls anywhere. But they published world class articles from world class writers that are reprinted and quoted to this day.
I had an absolutely insane ex-employer who kept an entire massive box of his personal playboys in the warehouse we worked out of. He once told me I should read them because the articles were really good. I thought he was fucking with me until now. He probably still was, he definitely wasn't holding onto them for their literary content
And the fiction was top-notch. They published an excerpt of Charles Bukowski's *Ham on Rye* which first introduced me to his writing.
I always saw this as a layered joke, because the articles are actually really good. Or at least they were up through the mid-90s. Surprisingly feminism-friendly, too.
Hell, Margaret Atwood used to be a semi-regular writer for them.
I looked up what famous authors had been published in playboy and its quite a list. Haruki Murakami takes the cake though.
Not that surprising. Guy was HORNY af.
That guy had a chronic case of Norwegian Wood
Although that one there by Joan Rivers got off to an odd start.
NCD says it buys Playboy for the naked chicks, only to masturbate to the planes eventually.
I've seen these illustrations floating around the internet but could never find the source, thank you so much for posting this!
The pleasure is truly all mine. 😎
By reading a playboy magazine indeed it's all yours
Same, I first saw these on a papercraft website for april fools, and the italian and american planes there have lived rent-free in my head ever since.
Oh those are Ghibli planes.
And I am listening to Porco Rosso music typing this and discovering those very interesting "airframe innovations"
I smiled seeing a [Caproni](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWI1d891COE) on the last page.
Some of them also remind me of Advanced wars.
That polish vtol is 100% Advanced Wars / Metal Slug
Okay but why that French bomber actually looks alright like it *could* be a real design?
Same thoughts as well, the French bomber is hella credible.
I guess France making a viable bomber is the most noncredible thing here lmao
Until out of nowhere the Mirage IV appears.
Most of these are made from real designs. The german one is an He-111 nose the Pal trainer is an Xp-50 elongated etc.
“I just read Playboy’s aviation coverage…”
What's funny is that the French and British ones look downright plausible. Definitely something they'd build in the late 30s. Hell, the British one is literally a Hampden with two more engines and an even taller fuselage.
The Septum doesn't really stand out much save for a slightly odd fuselage.
Landing on a slope is advised.
They look like end stage bosses from Metal Slug
That's what I thought of too, Metal Slug, also Advance Wars
Crimson Skies lookin ass
Metal Slug lookin
Edgar sounds like a cool guy
That trainer looks like a fucking train
I thought only Popular Mechanics featured improbable machines
Looks like Bruce MCall! He is the greatest automobile parodist! I see his name on the first page now
Brock Yates is also a very well known automotive journalist. At first I was confused, until I read the post title and realized this was a section in Playboy.
Highly Miyazaki
Loved the look of the Soviet flying coffin. Not fixing a mistake because fear of death is so Stalin
It's like an AI was told to draw inter-war planes.
Death by SNUD SNUD
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I think the Italian one is the less credible of them all
My dad has been trying to find this issue for ages just for this article.
Man, playboy had the opportunity to do the funniest shit possible
Mmm those engines from the TB-3 on the droop nose plane do somethin to me. Also the first plane clearly used an A-10 fuselage front.
To quote the great Joey Tribbiani, "you know there's naked chicks in there."
I remember having a playboy magazine folded on the display panel in the M1 I was on. Benefits of being a tank driver is that you're somewhat by yourself and laying down. Still cleaner than Starlords space ship.
the snud u-14 was probably the inspiration for the SU-27 fuselage design