Features:
HUNTING THE HUNTER - Roy Nesbil re-examines the pan played by the RAF and the Fleet Air Arm in the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck
DREAMS TO REALITY - Tony Harmswonh revisits AJD Engineering at Milden, Suffolk
THE LEGACY OF THE ROCKNE CRASH - Seventy years ago, on March 31, 1931, America was rocked by the death in an airliner crash of renowned football coach and national hero Knute Rockne. The accident had far-reaching repercussions, as Herbert and Ada Friedman explain
MOSQUITO UPDATE - The second of Jack Meadows's reports on the project to put a de Havilland Mosquito back in the air
A PRINCESS FOR KERMIT - American collector Kermit Weeks recently took delivery of a newly-restored B-25 Mitchell, Apache Princess. Report and air-to-air pictures plus pull-out centre-spread poster by Michael O'Leary
WAR COMES TO WOOLSTON - In the concluding half of his first-hand account of working at the Supermarine Aircraft Works, Jo Jurd recalls the devastating Luftwaffe raids of September 1940
PERSONAL ALBUM - Rare and mostly short-lived relics at the South African War Museum at Johannesburg in 1946

Regulars:
NEWS - All the latest preservation news from the UK and around the world, presented by Tony Harmswonh
LOST AND FOUND - Philip Jarrett searches for "Cody's Twin"
VIMY VOYAGERS RETURN - Report and pictures of Aeroplane's fund- raising Vimy Night at Brooklands Museum
HIGH SOCIETY - The Farnborough Airlorce
SKYWRITERS - Readers' letters
FLYING VISIT - A potted interview with ARCO director and pilot John Remain, by Melvyn Hiscock
LOOKING BACK - Nick Stroud browses in The Aeroplane of 40 years ago ? May 1961
CROSSWIND - Sideways comment on the aviation world, from John Maynard

Database: EARLY JETS:
TYPE HISTORY - Bill Gunston marks the 60th anniversary of the first flight of Britain's first jel aircraft with an examination of the Gloster E.28/39 and its German counterpart, the Heinkel He 178
SCALE DRAWINGS - Three-view by Giuscppe Ficarella
JET ENGINES - From rockets and ramjets to modem turbofans, Bill Gunston reviews the various kinds of reaction propulsion
PROP-LESS PIONEERS - A polled survey ot oilier early jel aircraft
FLYING THE E.28/39 - Pilots' perspectives on the first British jet
DAWN OF AN ERA - Bill Gunston reflects on the changes brought by the advent of the jet

Competitions:
WIN A FLIGHT - Your chance to win a trip in D.H. Dove G-OPLC, plus weekend car passes to the Great Vintage Flying Weekend at Wroughton in May
WIN BIGGIN TICKETS - We have 17 pairs of tickets to the Biggin Hill International Air Fair to give away
WIN FLYING LEGENDS GOLD PASSES - Win privilege tickets to this year's Flying Legends show - for the top prizewinner ? the Flying Legends book and a VIP tour of The Fighter Collection
WINNERS! - The resuks of our British Light Aeroplanes book competition in November's issue

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