REGULARS:
NEWS - Preservation news, presented by Tony Harmsworth
LOST AND FOUND - Phillip Jarrett puzzles over some mystery movie stills
CONTACT! - Paul Coggan comments on the preservation scene
SKYWRITERS - Readers' letters on a wide variety of topics
FLYING VISIT - A potted interview with Utterly Butterly Stearman display pilot Martyn Carrington, by Melvyn Hiscock
PICTURE OF THE MONTH - This month's photograph features a pair of Gloster Meteors
LOOKING BACK - Nick Stroud browses in The Aeroplane of 50 years ago
HIGH SOCIETY - This month: the 97 (Straits Settlements) Squadron Association
CROSSWIND - John Maynard's regular comment column

FEATURES:
DUXFORD'S SECRET COMPOUND - Join Aeroplane for an exclusive chance to explore the Aircraft Restoration Company and Historic Flying Ltd
PILOT BIOGRAPHY: KEN MEAD - John Maynard profiles a distinguished Army flyer
HEADING FOR EXTINCTION? - With the world's last Blackburn Beverley moving to a new home, we recall the fate of the other survivors
FLIGHT OF THE ANCIENT MARINER - Melvyn Hiscock crosses the Atlantic aboard a Grumman Albatross amphibian
CUTAWAY KINGS: MIKE BADROCKE - Tim Hall profiles the prolific technical artist and presents examples of his cutaway drawings
ONE HELLUVA HELLDIVER - Michael O'Leary flies with the world's sole airworthy example of the Curtiss SB2C dive bomber
PEACE AND WAR - Dopey Edwards DFC concludes his first-hand recollections of his RAF flying career in the 1930s-40s
PERSONAL ALBUM - British visitors to Prague in 1947
THE ADMIRAL AND THE AEROPLANE - Herb and Ada Friedman recount a long-range effort with a Handley Page V/1500 in 1919
THE LAST - Peter R. Arnold recounts his role in arranging a new paint scheme for a BBMF Spitfire

Database - ARADO AR 234 BLITZ:
TYPE HISTORY - World War Two German aviation specialist Dr Alfred Price describes the development of the world's first operational jet bomber and reconnaissance aircraft
SCALE DRAWINGS - Three-view illustration of the Ar 234B by Tim Hall
SWIFT AS LIGHTNING - A technical description of tlie conventional but sophisticated Blitz by Dr Alfred Price
HITLER'S EYE IN THE SKY - The Ar 234 provided vital photographic information for German military planners in 1944
LIGHTNING STRIKES - Dr Alfred Price examines the Blitz in the bomber role
PILOT'S PERSPECTIVE - A report on flying the Ar 234 by Captain Eric M. Brown, one of the few British pilots to fly the type
SOLE SURVIVOR - rhe USAF Museum has the only surviving example of one of the most overlooked aircraft of WW2

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