Grapevine - Our monthly review of happenings in the aircraft preservation world
The basketweave bomber - Part 3 - Eric Morgan and Edward Shacklady continue their development history of the Vickers Wellington bomber and examine the Merlin-powered Mk II
Probe probare No 29: Boulton & Paul Sidestrand and Overstrand - Now neanng completion of their series on aircraft which received special attention from the Aeroplane & Armament Experimental Establishment. Alee Lumsden and Terry Heffernan examine the development of the Sidestrand and Overstrand medium daybombers.
A governable parachute - Last year Cayley Glider replica BAPC-89 was brought out of retirement at Manchester for the IMAX film On the wing Derek Piggott, who was the intrepid pilot, describes what took place
Hotrod warbird - Frank B Mormillo reports on a unique way to enpy warbird flying without having to pay through the nose
Junkers Ju 88 - Another extract from Michael Turner's latest book, Luftwaffe aircraft
Butler did it! - Bruce Abell tells the remarkable story of British-born Arthur Butler who. with all the odds stacked against him. became one of Australia's leading aviation pioneers
Biggies - David Higgs reports on the making of the feature film
Short sighting - Adrian Batch recently persuaded the Science Museum to bring its elusive Short S C 1, XG900, out of storage to be photographed
Failed to return - Ex-21 7 Squadron Bristol Beaufort navigator Roy Nesbit reveals what happen, d to three World War Two aircraft which never made it home
Personal album - A selection of World War One phoiograpt. taken at RNAS stations in the Aegean
Preservation profile - Mike Beach's recently restored Slingsby Gull III is this month's subject
Wings of peace - John Stroud's series on between-the-wars European airliners continues with the multi- engined Italian Savoia Marchetti S 71, S.72 and S. 74
For business and pleasure - No 4 - Mike Jerram continues his series on British post-war private and club aircraft with the Miles M 38 and M 48 Messenger, which started life in 1942 as an AOP aircraft and became a wartime communications aircraft before embarking on a long career in civil aviation
The air war over Vietnam?Part-10 - In the final part of his series Philip D Chinnery tells how the Pans Peace Agreement of January 19 73 was by no means a formula for peace It was to be 2,,yr before the govern- ment of South Vietnam surrendered and the longest war in American history came to an end

Front Cover - This month's slightly off-beat (for us at least) front cover was taken by DAVID HIGGS, the begoggled chap sitting in the front seat of the Stampe. masquerading as Biggies during shooting of the film of the same name David's colour feature on the making of the film last winter can be found on pages 537-541