Grapevine - Michael Oakey's monthly review of happenings in the aircraft preservation world, including special reports by Bob Ogden and Adrian Balch from a museum at Xi'an, China, and the Edmonton Aviation Heritage Centre in Canada
The Connie is fifty - Mike Hardy concludes his two-part account of the long and varied career of the Lockheed Constellation prototype
Military personal album - Photographs of Axis aircraft abandoned at Celle, Germany in 1945
Sarajevo: a recurring nightmare with British military intervention in former Yugoslavia on the cards again recently, Wg Cdr Tony Le Hardy OBE recalls the RAF's part in Britain's operations there in 1944
Staggering back - Howard Levy reports from Alabama on Frank Ryder's backstaggered D.H.5 replica
By day and by night - Owen Thetford concludes his two-part Service history of the Vickers Virginia bomber
Painted wings - Preview of the Guild of Aviation Artists' forthcoming London exhibition
Skywriters - Readers' letters
Gliding tanks - The late Charles Prower recalls his wartime work on the General Aircraft Hamilcar tank-carrying glider
Fathers Of British Aviation no 5 - Kenneth Aitken's caricature of Sir Richard Fairey
CrossWind with John Maynard
Saro's flying-boat fighter - Barry Jones'describes the unique Saro SR.A/1 flying-boat jet fighter in the eighth of his series on British post-war experimental types
Preservation profile - The Royal Navy Historic Flight's newly-restored Fairey Swordfish W5856 is this month's subject
The last Of the few - In the concluding part of his No shots please, we're British series, Roger Anthoine describes the last moments of two RAF Mosquitoes
Armchair aviation - Melvyn Hiscock reviews new books and videos
Post-war propliners - John Stroud describes the Bristol Freighter
Sling's sailplanes - Martin Simons describes the Kirby Gull
French Atlantic wings - Robert Esperou concludes his account of France's pre-war transatlantic airline efforts
Plane crazy - The Editor's regular glance at light-hearted and bizarre moments in aviation
Competitions - This month's Diversions competitions feature chances to win a flight in Fairey Swordfish W5856, and tickets for this year's International Air Tattoo

Front cover - Norman Pealing's picture of the Royal Navy Historic Flight's Fairey Swordfish W5856 was taken on May 12.