REGULARS:

NEWS - All the latest preservation news from the Uk and abroad
LOST AND FOUND - inter-war European air transport
CONTACT! - Comment on the preservation scene
SKYWRITERS - Readers' letters
FLYING VISIT - A potted interview with former Supermarine test pilot Dave Morgan, by Melvyn Hiscock
PICTURE OF THE MONTH - This month's photograph features a pair of English Electric Lightnings
HIGH SOCIETY - The Aviation Postcard Club is this month's subject
LOOKING BACK
CROSSWIND - John Maynard's regular comment column

FEATURES:

A CENTURY OF AIRCRAFT WEAPONS - Bill Gunston encapsulates 100 years of airborne instruments of war - guns, rockets, bombs and missles
METEOR MOMENTIM - Tim Skeet presents a 60th anniversary salute to Gloster's first production jet - a few examples pf which are still working for a living!
PRESERVATION PIONEERS - Malcolm Goosey recalls the early years of the Northern Aircraft Preservation Soceity
THE PROJECT - Micheal O'Leary re-examines the origins of the Messerschmit Me 262 and talks to the world's only current pilot on the type PLUS air-to-air pictures of the replica before it's landing accident
THE DAWN OF FLIGHT - The Editor introduces 'Aeroplane 100 Years of Powered Flight' reader holiday to the USA in December
GIBRALTAR AND ONWARDS - A vivid extract from Andy Saunder's new book on No 43 Squadron RAF - the 'Fighting Cocks' - recounts the unit's World War Two exploits in the Mediterranean
BEFORE THEY WERE SPACEMEN - Patrick Boniface return with his occasional series on the previous test-piloting acreers of famous NASA astronauts

DATABASE - AIRSPEED AMBASSADOR:

TYPE HISTORY - Derek James recounts the decisions made by the Brabazon committee in 1942 and the development of the graceful Ambassador from those proposals
SCALE DRAWINGS - Three-view drawing of the Ambassador by Tim Hall
ELIZABETHAN ARCHITECTURE - A classic of its time in terms of construction, the Ambassador also introduced a number of innovative features, as Derek James's techn cal description reveals
THE NEW RENAISSANCE - British European Airways' fleet f Elizabethans, as the company dubbed the Ambassador, prefaced a new era of post-war elegance i air travel
AIRSPEED & ATTITUDE - In the October 21, 1949, issue of The Aeroplane, experienced test pilot Richard Worcester wrote an unusually favourable report on flying the second Ambassador prototype
THE AMBASSADOR'S RETURN - After BEA decided to dispose of the stylish but uneconomical Elizabethan Flight, several independent companies and one Air Force took on the well- maintained propliners, as Derek James explains
INDIVIDUAL HISTORIES - Derek James provides a production list with brief histories of all 23 Ambassadors built

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