Grapevine - Michael Oakey's monthly review of happenings in the aircraft preservation world.
Per mare probare - In Part Eight of their series on aeroplanes tested by the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment at Felixstowe in Suffolk. Alec Lumsden and Terry Heffernan describe the Saunders-Roe Cloud and Windhover flying-boats.
Personal album - Wartime photographs of Fairey Albacores, taken at Fairey's Great West Aerodrome
Images of war?Part 1 - In Part One of a new series on RAF air photography, Paul Lamboit and Mike Hodsman recall wartime operations from the coast of West Africa in 1940-42.
Testing the early American Jets - Part 3 - In the spring of 1948, English Electric's chief test pilot Roland Beamont went to the USA to fly and evaluate a selection of American military jets. The last aircraft he flew during this visit was the outstanding North American XP-86?later to become famous as the Sabre?which he describes with the aid of his original test reports.
Hendon's Brisfit - Ian Fnmston describes the restoration of the Royal Air Force Museum's Bristol F.2B Fighter, and provides a glimpse of the type's history
Spitfires over the Strip?Part 2 - During the Arab-Israeli War of Independence of 1948-49, ex-World War Two RAF pilot Gordon Levett flew Spitfires with the Israeli Air Force. He concludes his two-part article with recollections of his contribution to this strange conflict, in which Spitfires fought against Spitfires
First of the trimotors: the Radley-England Waterplane - Philip Jarrett recounts the story of an extraordinary aircraft which amazed holidaymakers on Britain's South Coast shortly before the First World War
Preservation profile - Bob Livingstone traces the history of Australian Capt Bruce Andrews' Melbourne-based Hawker Fury X WH589/VH-HFX
Wings of peace - John Stroud's series on between-the-wars European airliners continues with the Vickers Vulcan, one of the ugliest aeroplanes ever built in Britain
Aggie's airline - Richard Riding traces the history of Island Air Services, the Scllly Isles-based charter company run by ex-ATA ferry pilot Monique Agazanan in the Fifties
Confrontation with the Beverley - Part 1 - In the early 1960s Britain was involved in a bitter struggle with Indonesia over the sovereignty of North Borneo. The Blackburn Beverley's role in what became known as the Indonesian Confrontation is described in this article by Bill Overton

Front Cover - This month's dramatic front cover photograph, taken by ADRIAN M. BALCH, features Stearman A-75N N54922, flown by Bob Thompson with Lesley Gale taking a breath of fresh air. The team was sponsored by YUGO Cars during this year's airshow season?this photograph was taken near Staverton on August 21. 1987. Five days earlier ADRIAN BALCH attended the de Havilland Moth Club's Woburn weekend. attended by 71 Moth types. Our centre-spread features two of the 40 or so visiting Tiger Moths: Frank Curry flying G-ALIW and Chris Parker's G-BJZF flying in the vicinity of Woburn Abbey