Grapevine - Michael Oakey's monthly review of happenings in the aircraft preservation world
A dream fulfilled - John Greenland's scratchbuilt Comper Swift has flown
Riding the Ryan PT-22 - The niceties of T. Claude Ryan's classic military trainer of World War Two are described by Bob Grimstead
Short's three degrees - Barry Jones's series on British post-war experimental jets continues with the Short S.B.5
Falling Star's - Former AIB investigator T. R. Nelson concludes his two-part account of the tragic accidents which befell the Comet jet airliners
Darden's Dolphin - Colgate Darden's Douglas Dolphin amphibian, the last of its kind, is described and photographed by Howard Levy
Crosswind - More asides and broadsides from John Maynard
Military personal album - Photographs of the last seconds of a Fifth Air Force A-20G Havoc
By day and by night - Owen Thetford recounts the RAF squadron service of the Hawker Horsley
Fathers Of British aviation - Ken Aitken caricatures expatriate Australian Edgar Wikner Percival
Skywriters - Readers' letters
Tailless experimentals - Charles Prower continues his recollections of his career in the British aircraft industry
Flea fever - Howard Shore begins a light-hearted account of building a Mignet Flying Flea
Mastering the Meteor - Flt Lt Mike Retallack's memories of his conversion on to Meteors in the late 1950s
Post-war propliners - John Stroud describes the French S.E.2010 Armagnac airliner
Preservation profile - Richard Paver tells the life story of Planes of Fame East's P-63 Kingcobra
An AID to quality - Bruce Robertson begins a three-part account of the invaluable work of the Aeronautical Inspection Directorate
Armchair aviation - Melvyn Hiscock's monthly review of new books
Diversions - This month's competition features the chance to win a visit to the RAF Museum's restoration centre at Cardington

Front cover - Bob Grimstead photographed Malcolm Faier's Ryan PT-22 for his article on flying the type, which begins on page 8 of this issue