Grapevine - News from the aircraft preservation world
First over Everest - Peter Webb recounts the first flight over "the roof of the world", made by two Westland aircraft in April, 1933
Bravo Juliet: a bouquet for the Blackburn B-2 - R. G. "Tiny" Cooling recalls the pleasures of flying the Blackburn B-2 side-by-side trainer at pre-war Brough
Testing TSR-2 - Detailed account, with original flight reports, of the first test flights of the ill-fated BAC bomber by the aircraft's test pilot, Roland Beamont
Armstrong Whitworth's unnamed fighter - The Armstrong Whitworth Company tried unsuccessfully to produce a successor to its Siskin fighter. Ray Williams describes one of the contenders
Bristol Brigand - The fifth of Michael Turner's vivid paintings of RAF aircraft
Airspeed's elegant Ambassador - Part 3 - Don Middleton winds up his three-part history of the classic airliner with an account of its final years in BEA service and its subsequent use with independent airlines
Personal Album - An assortment of Aircraft Disposal Company photographs featuring non-standard civil D.H.9s
Preservation Profile - Mike Russell's Miles Gemini, G-AKKH, one of the few survivors of this "heavenly twin", is this month's subject
Flycatcher facsimile - Part 2 - John Fairey's reproduction fleet fighter takes to the air, crashes, is rebuilt and flies again
The Belle of Berlin - Having retrieved a downed Messerschmitt Bf 110 from the desert, Grp Capt Pelly-Fry thinks he has bagged himself a nice, fast personal transport
On the lighter side - Raymond Baxter talks to Capt John Kitchin about gyroplanes
Water wings - In which Capt Vie Hodgkinson earns his water. wings at RAAF Point Cook, Australia, as war breaks out in Europe
Skywriters

Our front cover features John Fairey's beautiful Fairey Flycatcher reproduction, the subject of an article, written by John, appearing in this issue