Regulars:
NEWS - All the latest preservation news from the UK and around the world, presented by Tony Harmsworth
LOST & FOUND - Philip Jarrett presents pictures of a three-seat Hawker Hurricane
CONTACT - A warm welcome to Paul Coggan, our new aircraft-preservation columnist
SKYWRITERS - Readers' letters on a wide variety of topics
FLYING VISIT - A potted interview with wartime WASP Caro Bayley Bosca, by Melvyn Hiscock
LOOKING BACK - Nick Stroud browses in The Aeroplane of 60 years ago ? December 1941
HIGH SOCIETY - The Fleet Air Arm Officers' Association
CROSSWIND - John Maynard's regular comment column

FEATURES:
THE FIRST LADY - Xavier Meal's pictures of the re-enactment of the first solo round-trip crossing of the USA by a woman pilot, in an Avro Avian in 1928
THE TAKORADI RUN - Derek Gratze concludes his two-pan history of the World War Two trans-Africa aircraft ferry route
A HURRICANE WITH FOUR BLADES? - Don't they usually have two- or three-bladed propellers? Louise Blackah explains some rare sightings
CLIPPER OF THE CLOUDS - Michael O'Leary traces the history of the world's first pressure-cabin airliner, and photographs the last flying example
BEFORE THEY WERE SPACEMEN - Patrick Boniface returns with his series on the previous flying careers of famous astronauts. This month: Buzz Aldrin
RYAN'S FORGOTTEN STAR - Melvyn Hiscock reports from Mojave on a beautifully-restored 1938 Ryan SCW lightplane M
HUGH VERITY (cover story) - John Maynard recounts-the extraordinary flying career of wartime RAP Special Duties Westland Lysander pilot Hugh Verity
ITALY'S MOTH - Paolo Franzini describes and photographs the 1928 Caproni Ca 100
PERSONAL ALBUM - Aircraft at RAF Mansion in the 1950s

DATABASE - FAIREY FIREFLY:
TYPE HISTORY - Bill Harrison recounts how the Firefly became one of the best strike aircraft of the 1940s-50s
SCALE DRAWINGS - Three-view of the FR.4 by Giuseppe Picarella
OVERSEAS OPERATORS - Versatility attracted wide foreign interest, as Bill Harrison explains
FIREFLY ANATOMY - The Firefly's structure and equipment in detail, by Bill Harrison
CUTAWAY DRAWING - The Firefly MR I, drawn by J.H. dark for the May 6, 1945 issue of The Aeroplane
FLYING THE FIREFLY - A variety of pilots' perspectives, gathered by Bill Harrison
76 THE FIREFLY AT WAR - Bill Harrison traces the aircraft's Service career from World War Two to Korea
78 FIREFLY SURVIVORS - Preserved examples, both airworthy and static

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