Grapevine - Philip Jarrett's monthly roundup of happenings in the aircraft preservation world
Messdeck misfits - Part 6 - HMS Illustrious has left Malta dockyard for Alexandria leaving C. Horrocks at Hal Far airfield to experience the horrors of constant air attacks before embarking on HMS Formidable
Meteoric records - On November 7, 1945 a pair of Gloster Meteor IVs of the recently re-formed RAF High Speed Flight raced back and forth between Herne Bay and Reculver, Kent in an attack on the world's speed record. Gp Capt Peter Heath, who was there in an official capacity, tells the inside story.
Heavenly body - Even by today's standards the Planet Satellite looks advanced in appearance. In 1948 it was positively futuristic both in line and in its magnesium structure. Don Middleton looks at a promising design that came to nothing Where are they now?
Wings of Peace - John Stroud opens a new series about European airliners between the wars. He begins with the Handley Page Type W and its derivatives
Personal Album - First World War photographs taken at "X" Aircraft Depot at Aboukir, Egypt
Skywriters
Return to the Boneyard - A return visit to the Military Storage and Disposition Centre at Davis-Monthan AFB?an all colour feature
Messerschmitt's mighty midget - Part 3 - Luftwaffe pilot Robert Olejnik recalls some successful and disastrous operational flights of the Me 163 Komet rocket fighter
Ferte flypast - A picture feature covering the annual meeting at Cerny La Fert6 Alais in May this year, home of the Amicale Jean-Baptiste Salis collection, the French equivalent of the Shuttleworth Collection
Preservation Profile - This month we visit Kloten airport, Zurich where Swis-sair have restored one of their first aircraft, the Comte AC-4 HB-IKO
The one that got away - The story behind the recovery of Grumman Hellcat JV111 fished out of the Western Mediterranean in 1979
Cockpits of the RAF - Part 1 - A new series in which L. F. E. Coombs reviews cockpits of RFC and RAF aircraft from 1912 to about 1955
Armchair aviation
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This month's cover photograph, taken by DENIS CALVERT, features a scale reproduction S.E.5A flying at this year's Cerny Fert6 Alais in May. The aircraft is presumably built from plans produced by the Canadian company Replica Plans of Richmond B.C. The colour scheme of the 85 per cent replica appears to be that of the Belgian Aviation Militaire.