Grapevine - Michael Oakey's monthly review of happenings in the aircraft preservation world
On silver wings - Part 7 - Alec Lumsden recounts the development history of the Hawker Woodcock
Nothing ventured . . . No 13 - Philip Jarrett describes the Airspeed AS.45 Cambridge advanced single-engined trainer of 1941
Skywriters
Flights and frights in the Thirties - Part 2 - In Part Two of his recollections of pre-war RAF flying. Dopey Edwards DFC reveals how not to restart your engine while airborne, and how to shoot holes in your own wings
Personal album - military Photographs of RAF Bristol Beaufighters taken mainly in the Fifties
Down in the dumps - Melvyn Hiscock assesses the potential of post- war military surplus dumps as a source of restorable airframes and usable spares
Christmas competition results
The speed seekers - No 1: H. J. "Bert" - Hinkler Kenneth Aitken opens a series of caricatures of British and British Empire record-breaking pilots
Waco on the brain - Howard Levy's colour coverage of a 1935 Waco YOC belonging to a Philadelphia brain surgeon
Confessions of an airline pilot - Part 1 - Dismissed from the RAF in 1945 for low-flying over Scarborough, Roy Day became a civilian pilot with Silver City Airways. In Part One of his recollections he describes a trip to Australia which took four times longer than scheduled
A Spitfire made for two - The restoration of Spitfire two-seater PV202 to flying condition is described by Hugh Smaffwood
Preservation profile - Graham Warner re-counts the history of the Aircraft Restoration Company's Beech 18
Wings of peace - John Stroud's series on between-the-wars European airliners continues with the de Havilland Puss and Leopard Moths
Personal album - civil Photographs of the Short Empire Flying-boat G-ADVB stranded on the River Dungu in the Belgian Congo in 1939
Desert Storm - A personal salute to the Allied air forces in the Gulf War, by aviation cartoonist Holly
Well, we can't all be Red Barons! - Les Seaward recounts his not altogether happy and successful experiences of flying training in Canada during World War Two
Diversions - The latest of our special competition pages, staged in conjunction with our sister magazine War in the Air, features the chance to win a genuine Irvin leather flying jacket and VIP tickets to this year's Fighter Meet at North Weald in May
FRONT COVER: MICHAEL O'LEARY'S striking photograph shows Pete McManus flying his North American P-51D Mustang N51PT Petie 3rd. The aircraft is painted in the colours of a P-51 of the USAAF's 487th Fighter Squadron, 352nd Fighter Group