NEWS - All the latest preservation news from the UK and around the world, presented by Tony Harmsworth
LOST AND FOUND - Philip Jarrett unearths some unusual photographs of a wartime Armstrong Whitworth Whitley recovery operation
CONTACT - Preservation comment and analysis from warbird specialist Paul Coggan
SKYWRITERS - Readers' letters
FLYING VISIT - A potted interview with the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight's CO Sqn Ldr Paul Day, by Melvyn Hiscock
PICTURE OF THE MONTH - This month we have selected a fine formation of Supermarine Seafires of the Naval Fighter School
LOOKING BACK - Nick Stroud browses in The Aeroplane of 45 years ago ? May 1957
HIGH SOCIETY - The Glider Pilot Regimental Association is this month's subject
CROSSWIND - Sideways commet on thie aviation world

FEATURES:

HIDDEN THINGS REVEALED - World War Two photo-reconnaissance Spitfire pilot Jimmy Taylor reassesses his squadron's contribution to Operation Market Garden

DOODLEBUG SUMMER - Extracts from a forthcoming TV interview about tackling the V1 flying-bomb threat, recorded with the late Wg Cdr Roland Beamont a few months before he died last year

A "NEW" ELIZABETHAN - An in-the-workshop report by Roger Carvell on the Duxford Aviation Society's Airspeed Ambassador restoration project

HISTORY FOR SALE - A preview of a forthcoming auction of race and historic aviation photographs

PILOT BIOGRAPHY: KENNETH SETH-SMITH - John Maynard opens a new two-part account of the brief but meteoric flying career of the Hawker test pilot who was killed while flying a Typhoon in 1942

THE SCHLESINGER RACE - Mike Hooks looks back at the disastrous Portsmouth?Johannesburg race of 1936, in which nine aircraft took part and only one finished


DOUGLAS INVADER PROFILE:

TYPE HISTORY - Michael O'Leary recounts the genesis and early career of America's greak'sl twin-piston attack aircraft

A KICK IN THE BUTT - The jet-augmented XA-26F

FEEDING FRENZY - Michael O'Leary profiles a surviving airworthy Invader

BOARDROOM BOMBERS - A summary of executive-transport Invader modifications, by Michael O'Leary

RAF INVADERS AND JAY DEES - How Invaders allotted to the RAF ended up with the US Navy insk-ad, by Michael O'Leary

DIFFERENT TIMES, DIFFERENT WARS - Korea, Vietnam, firefighting and foreign service, by Michael O'Leary

RACING INVADERS - A "beast" round the pylons


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