AIRSCENE - The monthly round-up of news and background to the news, presented under section headings for Military Affairs, Civil Affairs, Aircraft and Industry, and new Civil and Military Aircraft Contracts.
FIGHTERS IN THE RAF: PART III — Decline and Fall? Roy Braybrook concludes his three-part analysis of the development of fighter aircraft and fighter tactics in the RAF. This instalment covers the introduction of jet aircraft in the closing stages of World War II and the frequent changes of policy in more recent years.
THE FOKKER FOURS - An account of the development and production of the largest aircraft built to date by the Fokker company — the four-engined F.22s and a single F.36 — together with a cutaway drawing. 
LYULKA: A SOVIET PIONEER - In an exclusive interview with Jacques Marmain, the designer of the first original Soviet aircraft gas turbine engine describes his early work and his more recent products for use in military aircraft. The various aircraft — many of them prototypes — flown with Lyulka engines are illustrated and described.
BEST HIT - Illustrated coverage, including two pages in full colour, of the teams competing in the 1971 AIRSOUTH Fighter Weapons Meet, held in Turkey recently.
TALKBACK Readers ofAIR enthusiast offer comments of general interest.
THE UBIQUITOUS HAWK - If not one of the most dramatic of warplanes to serve during World War II, the Curtiss Hawk 75 and P-36 family was certainly one of the most used, serving both with and against the Allies. Its claims to fame, as described in this first instalment of a three-part feature, include the destruction of the first Axis aircraft shot down in air-to-air combat in both the European and the Pacific theatres. The feature includes a new cutaway drawing and a page of colour profile drawings.
MODEL ENTHUSIAST - The latest plastic aircraft kits reviewed, and a page of colour profile drawings of the Curtiss Hawk 75s in French markings.
IN PRINT - New aviation literature noted. 
FLYING THE "WOODEN WONDER" - Recollections of the de Havilland Mosquito in the "Viewed from the Cockpit" series by HA Taylor.
THE FLEDGELING FIGHTER - Extracted from the newly published account of the Messerschmitt Bf 109, "Augsburg Eagle", is this description of the evolution and operational use of the first production models of the famous Messerschmitt fighter.
FIGHTER A TO Z - Continuing the AIR ENTHUSIAST encyclopaedia of the World's fighter aircraft, from the ANF-Mureaux 170 to the Ansaldo A.C.I.
PLANE FACTS - Answers to readers' enquiries, from the AIR enthusiast files: Spanish Dragon Rapides; Stout ST-1; Breda Ba 65; Armstrong Siddeley Deerhound; Klemm Kl 35; missile-carrying Heinkel He 111H-22.
VETERAN AND VINTAGE - A Kingfisher Comes Home, being the story of the recovery and subsequent restoration of a crashed Vought-Sikorsky OS2U-2 Kingfisher.