Grapevine - Michael Oakey's monthly review of happenings in the aircraft preservation world
RNZAF Historic Flight - Stephen Harding reports from New Zealand
Air OP Austers: eyes for the Army Last part of the story of the wartime contribution made by AOP Austers in Java and Malaya
Blue, Green and Red Barons - Howard Levy describes Fred Murrin's Fokker Dr I reproduction and others
Crosswind - John Maynard's comment column
Civil personal album - Pictures of Baginton in the 1950s and 1960s
Skywriters - Readers' letters
Fathers Of British aviation: Ken Aitken's caricature this month features Autogiro pioneer Juan de la Cierva
By day and by night - Philip Jarrett recounts the development history of the Vickers Virginia bomber of 1920
Haunting images - A group of enthusiasts is struggling to save fading wartime works of art. Photo report by David Higgs.
TailIess trio - In the seventh of his series on British post-war jet experimental jet aircraft, Barry Jones describes the unorthodox D.H.108 "Swallow"
Victoria's Vampire - Jack Wilkinson reports from Victoria, Australia on the country's only airworthy de Havilland Vampire
From Brisfit to Beverley - The late Charles W. Prower continues his recollections of working with Westland, Airspeed and General Aircraft
Armchair aviation - Melvyn Hiscock's reviews of books and videos Plane Crazy The Editor's monthly backward glance at aviation's lighter and more bizarre moments
Preservation profile - Sir William Roberts's Westland Lysander III is this month's subject
Post-War propliners John Stroud describes the French SNCASO SO.30 Bellatrix and Bretagne airliners
No shots please, we're British - Roger Anthoine tells the story of a 166 Sqn Lancaster which exploded over neutral Switzerland
Military personal album - Photographs taken aboard carriers HMS Implacable and HMS Illustrious in 1949-51
Diversions - This month's competition features the chance to win an aviation mini-holiday in Jersey

Front cover - DAVID MUSCROFT's dramatic photograph of Vic Norman's "Crunchie" Stearman being put through its paces last season. This season's UK events are listed in our free airshow calendar inserted in this issue.