1,000m.p.h. inthe P.1 - Former English Electric chief'test pilot Roland Beamont recalls reaching the magic figure in the precursor of the Lightning interceptor
Tom Brooke-Smith 1918-1991 - Don Middleton's appreciation of the former Shorts chief test pilot who died on November 10, 1991
Spitfire notebook - This month the PR Mks X and XI
Personal album - civil - Photographs of ultralight aircraft photographed during the Thirties by the late E.J. "Eddie" Riding
Wings of peace - Part 99 - John Stroud's series on between-the-wars European airlines nears completion with a look at some Czechoslo-vakian designs
Rich mixture - More levity from Holly
Preservation profile - The Rolls-Royce owned Spitfire MkXIVG-ALGTis this month's subject
Camm's engine legacy - Part 2 - Dr John W. Fozard QBE, chief designer of the Harrier, continues his assessment of the career of legendary Hawker designer Sir Sydney Camm CBE with Camm's reactions to the challenge of VTOL
Diversions - A long-weekend trip to France, to see the Sails Collection airshow and the Musee de I'Air, is up for grabs this month
Grapevine - Michael Oakey's monthly review of happenings in the aircraft preservation world
On silver wings - Part 17 - Alec Lumsden recounts the development history of the Gloster Gauntlet fighter
An old flame rekindled - Former RAE test pilot Wg Cdr C. G. B. McClure recalls the first aerial relight in the Gloster E.28/39
Nothing ventured... Philip Jarrett describes the General Aircraft GAL 58 HamilcarX powered transport glider of 1945
The speed seekers - The Duchess of Bedford is the subject of Kenneth Aitken's caricature this month
Chasing the Golden Fleece - Hoy Day, who flew the Canadair Argonaut for BOACforsix years, recalls some of the airliner's ? and the airline's - eccentricities
Skywriters
Personal album - military - Photographs of American biplanes taken in California between the wars
Smoke on, go: the winners - The winning entries in our recent photographic competition
On the Beech - Part 1 - It may have been in production for 32yr and trained 90 per cent of America's navigators and bomb-aimers in World War Two, but the Beech 18 remains an unsung hero. Chuck Sloat thinks it merits wider recognition

This month's front cover, taken by Mike Vines/Photo Link, features the Shuttleworth Collection's original 1918 LVG C VI two-seat German reconnaissance and artillery observation biplane, the only genuine airworthy German World War One two-seater in the world.