REGULARS:

NEWS - All the latest preservation news from the UK and around the world, presented by Tony Harmsworth
LOST AND FOUND - Philip Jarrett trawls for information on an obscure Short Brothers biplane
CONTACT! - Paul Coggan comments on the preservation scene
SKYWRITERS - Readers' letters
FLYING VISIT - A potted interview with Gee Bee racer pilot Delmar Benjamin, by Melvyn Hiscock
PICTURE OF THE MONTH - This month's photograph features the English Electric Canberra Archive
LOOKING BACK - Nick Stroud browses in The Aeroplane of 55 years ago
HIGH SOCIETY - The Beagle Pup & Bulldog Club is this month's subject
CROSSWIND - John Maynard's regular comment column

FEATURES:

FLYING THE DECKS - Melvyn Hiscock reports from the Aeroplane / Army Museum reader event in November
THE MOSQUITO... AS ONE PILOT SAW IT - David Ogiivy presents a personal view of what de Havilland's "Wooden Wonder' was like to fly
A CENTURY OF ... AERO-ENGINES - Bill Gunston presents a masterly distillation of 100 years of development
CLAIMS TO FAME - Philip Jarrett opens a six-part reassessment of the pioneers who, some believe, flew before the Wrights
ALIVE AND VERY WELL - Philip Makanna's air-to-air photographs of the world's only airworthy Avro Shackleton
INDIANA TIGER HUNT - Nick Stroud reports from the USA on how he tried some unrestrained, 1930s-style open cockpit flying |
A VOYAGE OF EXPLORATION - Plight Lieutenant Charlie Brown recounts how he test-flew the world's only airworthy Hawker Nimrod
THE BIRTH OF THE ATA - Former wartime ferry pilot Lettice Curtis, recounts how the Air Transport Auxiliary was formed
RENO'S RETURN - Michael O'Leary reports from the USA's National Championship Air Races
PRESERVATION PROFILE - Luscombe Silvaire HB-DUX is this month's subject

FOKKER Dr 1 TRIPLANE:

TYPE HISTORY - Paul Leaman describes the development of Anthony Fokker's light and agile World War One fighter PLUS scale drawings by Tim Hall
"HALS UND BEINBRUCH!" - The Dr Fs wartime career and the units it served with are detailed by Paul Leaman
UNDER THE SKIN OF A DREIDECKER - A thorough technical description of the triplane PLUS cutaway drawing by David R. Jones
FLYING THE Dr 1 - A pilot's perspective of the tricky triplane
THE RED BARON - Nick Stroud recounts the life and career of the Dr Fs most famous exponent, Manfred von Richthofen
TRIPLANE REPLICAS - Although no Dr Is survived beyond the Second World War, the triplane is still well represented by replicas

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