Grapevine - Michael Oakey's monthly review of happenings in the aircraft preservation world

Limey Lightning - Frank Mormillo reports from Chino on the Fighter Collection's P-38J, due to arrive in the UK shortly

By day and by night - Part 1 Our new series on between-the-wars RAF biplane bombers opens with Philip Jarrett's description of the D.H.9A

Flying the Fury - Jonathon Whaley gives his impressions of flying the Lindsay Collection Hawker Fury reproduction

Tempest Summer ?? Part 1 Roland Beamont opens his account of leading the RAF's first wing of Tempest Vs into action during the summer of 1944

Sun 'n Fun - Edwin Shackleton reports from Lakeland Aiport, Florida, where there was a lot of fun but not a lot of sun

Baynes: the unknown innovator ? Part 4 in which William Morse describes Baynes's adaptation of the Mignet H.M.I 4 "Flying Flea"

Spitfire notebook - Part 19 of the series features the later variants of the Spitfire XIV

A WAAF remembers - Wigtown Silvie Taylor recalls her wartime service as an engine mechanic at RAF Wigtown in Galloway

Skywriters - Our regular letters page

Personal album ? military colour photographs taken at RAF Nicosia by R. Cavill in the mid-Sixties

Forging the Scimitar - Barry Jones examines the Supermarine N.9/47 family, which evolved into the Scimitar

Memoirs of a Burma staff wallah ? Part 1 - Dopey Edwards DFC begins a five-part account of his service as Armament Staff Officer with the Tactical Air Force's 221 Group in Burma in 1944-45

Return tO England - Cartoonist Holly marks the 50th anniversary of the USAAF's arrival "over here" in 1942

Personal album ?? Civil British racing aircraft photographed in 1920-21 by the late Sqn Ldr Alan H. Curtis

Nothing Ventured . . . Philip Jarrett describes Airspeed's attempt at a "stealthy" aircraft capable of shadowing enemy shipping

Post-war propliners ? Part 1 As a sequel to wings of peace, John Stroud embarks on a new series with an account of the Avro Lancastrian

Preservation profile - Henry Labouchere's Leopard Moth G-ACMN is this month's subject

Harriet Quimby: Queen of the Channel upstaged by the Titanic disaster 80yr ago, America's first woman pilot was a victim of aviation's age of innocence. Terry Gwynn-Jones looks at her life

Armchair aviation - Beginning a regular review of books and videos

Sister Hannah - Michael Stephenson samples a joyriding Grumman Ag-Cat floatplane off Australia's Gold Coast

Plane Crazy - The Editor begins a regular backward glance at aviation's lighter and more incredible moments

Diversions - Win a leather flying jacket or some warbird books in this month's competitions