Grapevine - Michael Oakey's monthly review of happenings in the aircraft preservation world
On silver wings - Alec Lumsden and Owen Thetford open a new series on ten RAF biplane fighters with the Sopwith Snipe
Personal album ? military - Photographs of post-war RAF aircraft
Nothing ventured...No 7 - Phillip Jarrett describes the Miles M.39B Libellula tandem-wing aircraft of 1943
A plague of Mosquitoes - Sqn Ldr Lewis Brandon DSO DFC & Bar recounts the work of the radar-equipped Mosquito night-fighters of WO Group RAF
Battle of Britain 50th anniversary - 4 - personal salute by cartoonist Holly Faces of The Few The Editor recently paid a visit to the RAF Museum's Britain Alone art exhibition
Take a card ? No 7 - Alec Lumsden describes the handling of a lesser-known participant in the Battle of Britain, the Boulton Paul Defiant turret fighter
High flyers at Goodwood - The winners of our recent Win-a-flight Competition take to the air in Tiger Moths at Goodwood
An-2 antics - Alun Morris Jones's photographs of skydiving from a pair of Antonov An-2 biplanes over Swansea in July this year
No shots please, we're British ? Part 3 - Roger Anthoine continues his series on RAF aircraft and crews which crashed or landed safely in neutral Switzerland during the Second World War
The flying squad ? Part 1 - Bryn Elliott opens a new series investigating the history of the London Metropolitan Police use of aircraft
Spitfire notebook ? Part 6 - First published in The Aeroplane Spotter in 1946-47, the series covers the Spitfire Mks III and IV this month
Preservation profile Aeronca C-3 G-ADYSis this month's subject
Wings of peace - John Stroud's series on inter-war European airliners continues with the Italian Savoia Marchetti S.M.75 and S.M.83 trimotors
Flying for fun ? part 5 - Wg Cdr Jack Meadows DFC AFC AE continues his series on his early flying years with an account of how he became a CFS flying instructor during the Battle of Britain summer of 1940
Skywriters
Personal album ? civil - Post-war photographs taken at Croydon
Rich mixture - More levity from Holly
Sale time at Santa Monica - Michael O'Leary reports on the recent auction at the Museum of Flying
Battle of Britain bandwagon - Just some of the souvenirs, books and videos that are available this summer
Scramble! - Your chance to win a copy of the world's most exclusive Battle of Britain book, worth no less than ?1,600. Take part in our free competition with the reply-paid entry card next to the inside back cover

FRONT COVER: Richard Winslade's photograph of Spitfire Mk I/A P7350 of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, taken especially for Aeroplane Monthly over Southampton on March 5, 1986. The aircraft was flown by Wg Cdr J. Ward on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first ffight of the Spitfire.