THE THING IS STILL ALIVE - TWA's former "flying breakdown truck". Fairchild C-82 Packet Ontos (The Thing), is still soldiering on, as Xavier Meal reports
THE ACES - Ken Aitken and David Baker profile World War One RFC ace Philip Fullard
CUTAWAY KINGS: FRANK MUNGER - Flight International's current chief technical artist Tim Hall reviews the remarkable career and masterly cutaway drawings of his predecessor
GUPPY AND SCRAPPER - Patrick Boniface traces the history of the anti-submaine Grumman AF-2 Guardian
MILITARY PERSONAL ALBUM - A selection of American jets and other types at Zurich Air Show in 1956
CANADA'S AIR FORCE - Jack Meadows commemorates the Royal Canadian Air Force, formed 75 years ago
NEWS - All the latest preservation news, presented by Michael Oakey and Tony Harmsworih
HERE COMES TROUBLE - Erich Gandet photographs Mustang Double Trouble Two as it bids farewell to the Swiss Alps before its move-to a new home in the UK.
THE SPINNING FOOL - Dick Archer recalls some acrobatic antics during his flying training in South Africa on April 1, 1942
HOWARD'S FURY - American collector Howard Pardue has customised a Hawker "Baghdad" Fury, as Michael O'Leary reports
ARMCHAIR AVIATION - Reviews of the latest books and videos
VENETIAN VENTURE - Paolo Franzini visits an Italian flying collection
SUPERMARINE SUPERPRIORITY - The second of Charles Bin-net's three-part account of Supermarinejet fighter development during the defence priority years of the early Fifties
A MILLION MILES FLOWN - John Siroud continues his new series of personal picture features with a selection of air transport photographs from 1946-47
AN ADVENTURE IN EAST AFRICA - In his latest article under the Policing the Empire banner, David Baker recounts the exploits of Z Force in Somaliland in 1920
QUESTIONS IN THE AIR - More questions and answers from readers on a wide variety of topics, compiled by Mike Hooks
THE WALLBRO MONOPLANE - Philip Jarrett tells the story of a pioneering aircraft of 1910 and of its re-creation in the 1970s
DERBY DAY - Mike Hooks takes us back to the 1947 Derby International Air Rally, with photographs from John Collier and The Aeroplane's archives
SKYWRITERS - Readers' letters
CROSSWIND - Asides and broadsides from comment columnist John Maynard
AEROPLANE SERVICES - Offers for Aeroplane subscriptions, binders and other goodies