Farewell little Vampi - Erich Gandet salutes Switzerland's de Havilland Vampires, which retire from air force service this year
Painted wings - A preview of this year's Guild of Aviation Artists summer exhibition
Spitfire notebook - Part 3 - First published in The Aeroplane Spotter during 1946-47, the notebook this month examines the Spitfire Mkl
Preservation profile - Curtiss Robin C-2 G-HFBM, currently up for sale, is this month's subject
Wings of peace - John Stroud's series on between-the-wars European airliners continues with Part Two of the de Havilland Albatross story, which covers the type's service with Imperial Airways
Rich mixture - Light-hearted comments from aviation cartoonist and columnist Holly
The origins of aerial bombardment - Part 8 - Harry Woodman describes the part aerial bombardment played in the Balkan Wars of1912-13
They who dared first - Part Three of a series on great test pilots who lost their lives while test flying, written by the late John Yoxall and originally published in Flight in 1946-47, features S. A. "Bill" Thorn, former Avro chief test pilot
Grapevine - Michael Oakey's monthly review of happenings in the aircraft preservation world
California's Solent - Andrew Edney reports from Oakland, California where the last remaining Short Solent 3 is alive and looking good
Nothing ventured - No 4 - Philip Jarrett describes the Gloster F.9/37 of 1939, a highly manoeuvrable twin-engined fighter designed to carry five forward-firing cannon in its fuselage
Atlantic double - Former English Electric Company chief test pilot Roland Beamont recalls an early Canberra test operation which created a famous world record
Flying for fun - Part 2 - Wg Cdr Jack Meadows DFC AFCAErecounts his entry into the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in the autumn of 1938
Skywriters
Take a card - No 4 - Alec Lumsden continues his series on the handling of wartime aircraft with the West/and Lysander, whose tendency to perform inadvertent loops during overshoots marred its otherwise excellent handling characteristics
Personal album - military Photographs of RAF de Havilland Hornet fighters taken by Richard Livermore
Personal album - civil Photographs of post- war propliners taken by Norman Rivett
Fokker's first Joop - Wenstedt reports from Eindhoven, Holland, on the 1990 restoration of a 1936 replica of a 1913 aircraft

FRONT COVER: The Strathallan Collection's West/and Lysander was photographed by MIKE VINES/PHOTO LINK near its Perthshire base in 1986. Sadly, with the recent closure of the collection (see Grapevine, April), V9441 is now in storage.