FotoPost: In our new series of readers' photographs 'Birdie' Brightwell supplies some interesting mementoes from the Fleet Air Arm in the '50s.
Air Weapons of the RAF: R Wallace Clarke continues his series on RAF weapons with the story of the Vickers K-class gas operated machine gun.
Falklands: Archaeology in the making: Jeremy Flack visited the Falklands recently and brought back this report on the wrecks which dot the landscape.
Warplanes in Civvies: In our occasional series M J Hardy recalls the civil use of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator.
Dive Bomber - In the ninth of his series on dive bombers of WWII Peter Smith tells the story of the most famous of them all - the Junkers Ju87 Stuka.
Preservation Project - Ken Ellis reports on the major task faced by the Newark Air Museum with their Heron and Hastings.
Warneford VC - The Wild Hawk: Ray Rimell relates the turbulent story of Rex Warneford who destroyed the German Zeppelin LZ37 and became a national hero overnight
Air Show '83: All the news and dates from the air show scene
Fireflies in Belgium: Paul Demaeyer recalls the history of the Fairey Fireflies used by the Belgian Air Force in the '30s.
Preservation News: All the news on the preservation scene
Wellington Collision: Two Wellingtons collided during formation flying practice in 1939. Bob Collis tells how the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum found the aircraft and recovered the remains Aviation Archaeology: Peter Moran details some of the aircraft which have crashed in Snowdonia between 1940 and 1959.

COVER: Retic of a war. Argentinian Air Force Pucara A-532 poses forlornly at RAF Stanley in the Falkland Islands after being used for fire practice by the RAF. See page 17.