Grapevine - Michael Oakey's monthly review of happenings in the aircraft preservation world?plus Hangar stores
Per mare probare No 2: Saro Cutty Sark - In Part Two of their new series on aeroplanes tested by the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment at Felixstowe, Alec Lumsden and Terry Heffernan examine the Saunders-Roe Cutty Sark amphibian
The Flying Duchess - Part 1 - Fifty years ago, on March 22, 1937, the 72-year-old Duchess of Bedford mysteriously disappeared while on a short cross-country flight, having spent the previous 10yr making a remarkable series of long-distance flights all over the world. Lettice Curtis tells the extraordinary story of the Flying Duchess
Personal album - This month's photographs focus on the Short Empire flying boat G-AFCZ Australia
Stratos - Howard Levy reports on another of the more unusual shapes to be seen at Oshkosh '86, the Ligeti Stratos microlight
For business and pleasure - Mike Jerram continues his series on British post-war private and club aircraft with the story of the Austers. He begins with their predecessors, the Taylorcraft series
A dirty night - Air Vice-Marshal Tony Dudgeon relates how the sins of frustration and chauvinism led him to be night-flying a Wellington through foul weather over the Bay of Biscay in 1943?with no electronics, no lighting, few instruments, less than an hour's flying on type and a panicking navigator
Superfort on ice - Exclusive pictures of a B-29 abandoned in a remote area of Greenland in 1947, and photographed in 1985 by Britannia Airways 737 captain and polar pilot Giles Kershaw
Voyager: the ultimate first - Just before Christmas. Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager's nonstop, unrefuelled round-the-world flight captured the public imagination and recaptured the spirit of pioneering aviation. In London during January Michael Oakey met the Voyager's crew, who told him about their historic achievement
The Auxiliary tradition - Part 1 - The first of five articles by Wg Car Jack Meadows DFC. CO of 600 (City of London) Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force, from 1951-53. recalling the special spirit and pride which made up the Auxiliary tradition
Preservation profile - Bob Ogden looks into the history of Boeing C-3R Stearman NC799H
Wings of peace - John Stroud's series on between-the-wars European airliners continues with the Airco D.H.4A and D.H.I 6 biplanes
"The question of launching torpedoes" - Part 3 - Former Keeper of the RAF Museum Jack Bruce continues his history of the early development of torpedo aircraft. In Part Three he traces the fate of Sopwith Special Seaplane No 170, the first British aircraft specifically designed to launch a torpedo
Redhill recollections - Part 1 - M. J. Hardy recalls his time at Redhill Aerodrome, Surrey, as a student with the College of Aeronautical Engineering in 1949-51. While there, he made a detailed record of aircraft living at and visiting the airfield?and some of the relics tucked away in the hangars

Front Cover - JIM LARSEN's cover photograph depics ex-Indian Air Force B-24J Liberator HE771/N94459, refurbished at Duxford during 1973 and now flying with Yesterday's Air Force based at Chino