FEATURES:
TOP OF THE PROPS - A news feature by Peter R. Arnold on the only flying Seafire, with air-to-air photographs by Philip Makanna
AN EMIUS STORY EMERGES - Mark Sheppard investigates the history of a Messerschmitt Bf 109E lifted intact from a lake
THE OFFICE - We begin a new series, to alternate with Aeroplane Explains, on aircraft cockpits. This month: the Meteor F.8
MONEY TO BURN? - Tim Skeet explores the costs of keeping vintage jets in the air
SAINT-EX FOUND? - Xavier Meal takes a critical look at the recent news about pilot/writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery
THE ART OF AVIATION - Another new feature series opens with a preview of the stunning Battle of Britain London Monument
PERSONAL ALBUM - Post-war propliners in colour
I WAS A NATIONAL SERVICE PILOT - Peter Richardson describes how he "got some in" in the 1950s ? in Vampires and Venoms
AN EYE FOR DETAIL - Our new series featuring fine close-up photographs of preserved aircraft focuses on a WW1 Ansaldo SVA 5 fighter
CENTRE-SPREAD - Supermarine Seafire 47 VP441
A TRAGEDY OF ERRORS - Tim O'Brien describes how troop-glider pilot Peter Boyle fared at Amhem 60 years ago
FIRST SUPERMARINES - Rare photographs of WW 1-era Pemberton-Billing aircraft
THE MISSING LINK - Rosina Brown visits a Link Trainer restoration team

REGULARS:
NEWS - All the latest preservation news, presented by Tony Harmsworth
CONTACT - Paul Coggan comments on the preservation scene ? this month concentrating on Iraqi Hawker Furies
SKYWRITERS - Readers' letters on a wide variety of topics ? including a fusillade about the investigation into Mark Hanna's fatal accident in Spain in 1999
FLYING VISIT - A potted interview with former Rothmans team pilot and Battle of Britain film pilot Tim Mills, by Melvyn Hiscock
PICTURE OF THE MONTH - This month's Aeroplane archive photograph special offer features an Armstrong Whitworth Ensign
HIGH SOCIETY - Club Imperial, whose members support the building of an H.P.42 airliner replica, is this month's subject
LOOKING BACK - Nick Stroud browses in The Aeroplane of 50 years ago ? October 1954
CROSSWIND - Sideways comment on the aviation world, from columnist John Maynard

Database: LOCKHEED P-38 LIGHTNING:
Michael O'Leary traces the genesis, development and highly successful career of one of the most distinctive and versatile Allied aircraft of the Second World War ? the twin-engined, twin-boomed P-38 Lightning. With scale drawings by Tim Hall and cutaway illustration by Max Millar

NAVIGATOR: Aeroplane's monthly review and listings section