REGULARS:

NEWS - All the latest preservation news from the UK and around the world, presented by Tony Harmsworth
LOST & FOUND - Philip Jarrett puzzles over a baffling light biplane of 1930s vintage
SKYWRITERS - Readers' letters on a wide variety of topics
FLYING VISIT - A potted interview with test pilot and display-flying veteran Dizzy Addicott, by Melvyn Hiscock
HIGH SOCIETY - The Beverley Association, established to cater for crews and enthusiasts of Blackburn's mammoth transport (see Database), is this month's subject
LOOKING BACK - Nick Stroud browses in The Aeroplane of 65 years ago ? November 1936
CROSSWIND - Sideways comment on the aviation world, from John Maynard

FEATURES:

OSCARS UPDATE - Giuseppe Picarella reports from Fort Worth on the Texas Airplane Factory's well-advanced project to scratchbuild four airworthy Nakajima Ki-43 Oscar fighters
THURSDAY'S CHILD - Michael Townsend previews a new book on an eventful round-the-world flight by a lady pilot in 1948-49
A COURIER'S TALE - Alan Cobham's unsuccessful attempt to make an aerial-refuelled flight from the UK to India in 1934 in an Airspeed Courier is recounted by Colin Cruddas, with remarkable pictures of early refuelling trials
FROM TURRET TO TOWER - Tony Harmsworth visits Duxford to interview airfield manager Stephen White about airshow safety and future display policy
SPAIN'S PRETENDER - A former Battle of Britain film Hispano Buchon which later flew with the Confederate Air Force has been restored to fly in Luftwaffe colours in the USA, as Michael O'Leary reports
THE TAKORADIRUN - In 1940 Takoraji, on Africa's west coast, became the starting point for long-range transcontinental ferry flights to supply Allied aircraft to the Middle East. Derek Gratze describes the establishment of the route in the first of a two-part feature
THE GREAT WALDO WRIGHT - Gilles Auliard reports on a father-and-son team who have set out to recapture the fun of inter-war barnstormer-style pleasure-flying

DATABASE - BLACKBURN BEVERLEY:

TYPE HISTORY - Doug Black recounts the conception and development of the Universal Freighter and its military version, the Beverley
SCALE DRAWINGS - Three-view by Giuseppe Picarella
BIG AIRCRAFT, BIG PROBLEMS - BUT BEAUTIFUL! - EDITOR'S -CHOICE - Former RAF engineer Dave Branchett, who worked on Beverley major overhauls at St Athan, offers an affectionate inside view of the peculiar difficulties of servicing such a large aeroplane
CUTAWAY DRAWING - The Universal Freighter, drawn by J.H. Clark for the July 7, 1950 issue of The Aeroplane
RAF BEVERLEY SQUADRONS - Philip Jarrett presents a summary of the type's RAF career in the seven units which operated it
FLYING THE AMIABLE ELEPHANT - Extracts from R.E. Gillman's pilot report from The Aeroplane of August 26, 1955
... AND THEN THERE WAS ONE - Tony Harmsworth looks at the last survivor and at the Beverleys that didn't quite make it

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