Grapevine - Michael Oakey's monthly review of happenings in the aircraft preservation world
The flight of Rudolf Hess - Part 1 - In May 1941 Germany's Deputy Fuhrer flew to Scotland on a mysterious and ill-fated peace mission. For the first time Roy Nesbit reveals the full story of the flight
The basketweave bomber - Part 4 - Eric Morgan and Edward Shacklady continue their development history of the Vickers Wellington bomber and examine the Mks III and Mk IV
Qantas Cat ops - Part 1 - First of a three-part series telling the history of the wartime Qantas Catalina service that linked Australia, Ceylon and India, thus keeping the Empire route open to the United Kingdom?told by Capt L. R. Ambrose, a senior pilot of the Indian Ocean service
Vintage gliders galore - Ann Welch reports on the Vintage Glider Club's International Rally, held at Lasham on August 2-9
The vanquished Victor - Michael O'Leary reports on an RAF Victor tanker which recently came to grief in Canada
Scimitar saga - Part 1 - Ray Williams tells the story of Armstrong Whitworth's last biplane fighter
Skywriters
Henschel Hs 126A - Another extract from Michael Turner's latest book, Luftwaffe aircraft
Where are they now?
Gone west - Obituaries of AVM D. C. T. 'Pathfinder" Bennett, who died on September 14. and aircraft collector Mike Carlton, killed in an air crash on August 31
For business and pleasure - No 4 - Mike Jerram continues his series on British post-war private and club aircraft with Part Two of the story of the Miles M. 38 and M. 48 Messenger, which started life in 1942 as an AOP aircraft and.became a wartime communications machine before embarking on a long career in civil aviation
Personal album - A collection of pre-war FAA aircraft photographs taken on and around Malta in the early Thirties
Preservation profile - Brian Wood ford's recently restored D. H. Dragon Rapide G-ACZE/G-AJGS is this month s subject
Wings of peace - John Stroud's long-running senes on between-the-wars European airliners continues with the three-engined D H.66 Hercules biplane, designed in 1926 for service between Cairo and Karachi
Test pilot profile - No 14 - Don Middleton looks at the long and varied career of E. L. "Jock" Bonar, one-time test pilot with Napier and Rolls Royce

Front cover - Our photograph features Brian Wood ford's immaculate D H.89A Dragon Rapide G-ACZE over Sussex in August this year, flown by Peter Harnson. This aircraft is the subject of this month's Preservation profile