Grapevine - Michael Oakey's monthly review of happenings in the aircraft preservation world
Farewell - Sir Thomas J. M. Ramsden recalls an interview which the late Sir Thomas Sopwith gave him in 1978, capturing the courtesy and charm of aviation's last surviving great pioneer, and memories of perhaps the fullest life in aviation history
The reluctant dominator - Part 1 - Stephen Harding begins a two-part history of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator of 1942
By Speedbird to Sydney - Richard T. Sherren recalls a flight from England to Australia aboard a Sunder/and flying-boat of BO AC
Per mare probare - In Part 14 of their series on the test-flying of marine aircraft. Alee Lumsden and Terry Heffernan examine the later Schneider Trophy contest seaplanes of 1927-31
Personal album ? military - A selection of photographs of pre-war RAF biplanes
A decisive factor ? Part 3 - In the third instalment of his series on the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, Wg Cdr Jack Meadows DFC AFC AE recalls instructing on Ansons in Canada
Personal album ? civil - A selection of photographs featuring the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser
Skywriters
Kitfox - David A. Gustafson describes an attractive, vintage-style American homebuilt now available in kit form
Preservation profile - A Swiss-registered Dewoitine 0.26 is this month's subject
Wings of peace - Jonn Stroud's regular series on between-the-wars European airliners continues with the multi-engined French Caudron biplanes
British pre-war lightplanes - Richard Riding continues his series with the Cierva C.24 autogiro of 1931, designed and built by de Havilland to compare the relative merits of autogiro and cabin Moth
From penguin to eagle ? Part 3 - Gordon Levett continues the story of how, 2yr after joining the RAF as a mechanic in 1939, he became a commissioned pilot

Front Cover - FRANK B. MORMILLO'S cover photograph features three aircraft of the Air Museum at Chino, a Vought F4U-1 Corsair, Seversky 2PA/AT-12 and Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless.