REGULARS:

NEWS - All the latest preservation news from the UK and around the world, presented by Tony Harmsworth
LOST AND FOUND - Philip Jarrett asks for help to identify some German wartime wrecks
CONTACT! - Paul Coggan comments on the preservation scene
SKYWRITERS - Readers' letters
FLYING VISIT - A potted interview with Admiral Sir Raymond Lygo, by Melvyn Hiscock
PICTURE OF THE MONTH - This month's photograph features the Miles Master Mk III Archive
HIGH SOCIETY - The 96 Squadron Association is this month's subject
LOOKING BACK - Nick Stroud browses in The Aeroplane of 45 years ago
CROSSWIND - John Maynard's regular comment column

FEATURES:

GLACIER GIRL - Charles H. Stites reports on the first post-restoration flight of a remarkable Lockheed P-38 Lightning
A CENTURY OF ... COCKPITS - L.F.E. Coombs presents a masterly distillation of 100 years of development
PRESERVATION PIONEERS - M.D.N "Bill" Fisher looks back at the Historic Aircraft Preservation Society and the dawn of the UK's aviation preservation movement
PERSONAL ALBUM - Some of Tom Samson's photographs from the 1930s
OSCARS UPDATE - Joe Picarella reports on the Nakajima Ki-43 project
AN AUSSIE AT LOSSIE - Commodore N.E. Lee of the Royal Australian Navy recalls his exchange posting to Scotland in the 1950s
STORMBIRD RISING - Michael O'Leary reports on the first flight of a Messerschmitt Me 262 replica, with photographs by Jim Larsen
THE MOSQUITO ... AS ONE PILOT SAW IT - In Part Two of his series David Ogilvy moves on to the later, heavier marks of the "Wooden Wonder"
THOMAS 48 ... HAROLD 4 - David Siddall examines why historic railways seem to get more Lottery funding than historic aircraft
MY FAVOURITE AEROPLANE? - John Stroud makes a difficult choice

DATABASE - CURTISS P-40:

TYPE HISTORY - Aviation historian Jerry Scutts describes the development of the P-40 and lists its variants
WARHAWK AT WAR - At the time of Pearl Harbor, the P-40 equipped more USAAC units than any other type
WAYFARING WARHAWK - Michael O'Leary recounts the global effort put into restoring Tony Banta's immaculate P-40E PLUS centre-spread pull-out poster
THE NUTS & BOLTS - Technical description of an early production P-40 PLUS scale drawings by Tim Hall
FOR KING & COMMONWEALTH - The Tomahawks and Kittyhawks of the RAF and Commonwealth nations, detailed by Jerry Scutts
WORLD SERVICE - Apart from the USA and British Commonwealth, the P-40 served with nine other nations
PILOT'S PERSPECTIVE - An anonymous report from a Kittyhawk pilot of 73 OTU at Abu Sueir reveals what the type was like to fly
GAS STATION GUARDIANS - Michael O'Leary explains how the P-40 was neglected for years after the war until the warbird movement revived the fortunes of the rugged fighter-bomber

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