Grapevine - Michael Oakey's monthly review of happenings in the aircraft preservation world
Probe probare - Resuming their series on aircraft which received special attention from the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment Alec Lumsden and Terry Heffernan examine the Miles Kestrel and Master trainers
Atlas: a supporting role - Part 2 - Although never an outstanding aircraft, the Armstrong Whitworth Atlas of the late Twenties played a valuable supporting role in the RAF Ray Williams concludes his two-part history of the type
Personal album - military - J. L. Leeks's collection of Sunderland photographs
Stealth - Flight International's defence editor, Mike Gaines, reports on Northrop's sleek and sinister B-2 bomber
Skywriters
Personal album - civil - Airliners photographed by George Grigs at Croydon during 1939, the last year of peace
Venom HB-RVA - Erich Gandet reports on a recent newcomer to European airshows
The last casualties of the hardest day - Alan White recounts the wartime story of an unsung hero?and of an endeavour, 48yr on, to commemorate an act of supreme bravery
Fifty years from Crewe - Hugh O'Neill reflects on the The Day War Broke Out
Miles metamorphosis - Richard Riding reports on an old racing favourite recently restored in a new guise
Preservation profile - Artist Michael Turner's DHC-1 Chipmunk receives the This is your life treatment
Wings of peace - The Messerschmitt airliners are this month's subject in John Stroud's long-running series on European between-the-wars airliners
Wacos galore - Howard Levy reports from the USA's National Waco Club 1989 Fly-in
Mossies over the Med - Part 3 - Accidents always happen in threes... or fours, as FredAdkin relates in the third and final part of his recollections of serving with No 13 Sqn RAF in the Middle East and Mediterranean during 1948-51

Front cover photograph features the PBY-6A Catalina N999AR/N4NC owned by Texas-based Wilson "Connie" Edwards which, in company with PBY-5A Catalina C-FOWE, made a commemorative Atlantic crossing, landing at Plymouth, in May 1986 (see Aeroplane, July 1986). GORDON BAIN'S colour centre-spread features Edward Hulton 's Short Sunderland/Sandringham G-BJHS over the Solent on August 3, 1989. The 'boat is the subject of a Grapevine news story on page 582.