AIRSCENE - Military, commercial and aerospace industry news from around the world with the major stories highlighted.
MIAMI CHALLENGE - Geoffrey P Jones visited one of the busiest international air-freight centres in the world, to compile this report on Challenge Air Cargo.
VETERAN AND VINTAGE - Having formed the backbone of the Polish Air Force for more than a decade, MiG-15s and -17s (SBLim-5 and Lim-5) were recently retired from service. Grzegorz L Holdanowicz and Wojtek Matusiak witnessed their last flights.
CARGO AND FREIGHT AIRCRAFT - Gunter Endres continues his survey with details of 28 principal types currently in service and under development.
MIRAGE MIGHT HAVE BEENS 2: BALZAC - DASSAULT’S FIRST VTOL VARIANT - In the second of an occasional series, John Flicker describes the composite power plant Balzac V.
ALWAYS READY - Is the motto of the US Coast Guard. Arthur Pearcy reviews the current status of the seventh largest naval air arm in the world.
FRISBEE HERCULES - David Reade recounts the brief history of the most unusual Lockheed Hercules variant to be operated by the US Coast Guard, the EC-130V.
MULTI-MISSION STORMO 14° - Stormo is one of the lesser known units of the Italian Air Force and yet provides essential electronic warfare, air-refuelling and transport services; as recounted by Riccardo Niccoli.
GOING DUTCH - THE AVIOLANDA STORY Aviolanda pioneered the construction of metal aircraft in the Netherlands and is now part of Fokker. Bart van der Klaauw reviews its history.
THE WORLD’S CARGO BUSINESS - In this survey, Gunter Endres begins with an overview of the operators and aircraft in the air freight market 
FIGHTER A TO Z - Continuing the AIR International encyclopaedia of the world's fighter aircraft, this month the subjects span 42 years; from the Spyker-Trompenburg V.3 to Sud-Est SE.530 Mistral.
IN PRINT Reviews of some recent books received.
HELLENIC HELICOPTERS - Rene van Woezik reports on the helicopter flights of the Hellenic Navy.
TALK BACK - Readers letters on subjects carried in past issues of the magazine and of general interest.

FRONT COVER Boeing 747-200F of China Air Cargo. Full details of the 747 and other cargo aircraft currently in service and under development are given in the special supplement, beginning on page 255.