Features & Regulars:
HANGAR DOORS - Aeromooelling's news. views and comments
COUPE CHALLENGE - Winter Cup competition at RAF Henlow - report and results
SWINGING 60 - Development of a winner - Phil Ball tells us all about his Slow Open Power activities
READERS' LETTERS - Over to you for opinions
1986 INDOOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS - Bob Bailey reports on a splendid, record-breaking Champs at Cardington
FLYLEAVES - Fit to print Read our reviews and decide
I MADE ONE TOO! - Jim Woodside puts down the team racer and cuts motor metal
DURATION DURATION - Two vintage rubber lightweight comprehensively compared
SIZZLE - Got an evening to spare Go Jetex with David Binns' all-sheet flying wing
FREE FLIGHT SCENE - Coupes, comps and champs come under Dave Hipperson's scrutiny
ONE IN A MILLION - A tale of the unexpected by David Wilkinson
MIND THE LINES - Vintage control-line Speed and Team Race news circulated by Andy Brough
SCALE MATTERS - Bill Dennis takes a look at retractable undercarriages and thinks ahead to this year's competitions
VINTAGE CORNER - Yesterday's aeromodelling given today's treatment by Alex Imrie

Construction:
SPITIRE STUNTERS - Build at least one control line stunt Spitfire - just right for 1.5cc - from our full-size plans by Noel Stephenson. Plans for both Mk9 and Mk 14/18 versions of the Spitire - to build near-scale 29" span aerobatic models (FULL SIZE PLANS)

Cover: Spring competitions approach, and with them your chance to amass points in the F/F league tables - see analysis in Free Flight Scene which starts on p. 162. In 'ninth equal' place, according to the Aeromodeller system, was John Cuthbert who flew in thirteen events with three victories to his credit. Here we see John with his mylar-tail F1A at the '86 Nationals. Photo: Steve Philpott.