Aeroplane Monthly

Grapevine - Michael Oakey's monthly review of happenings in the aircraft preservation world
Per mare probare - In Part 17 of their series on aeroplanes tested by the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment, Alec Lumsden and Terry Heffernan examine the elegant but ill-fated Saunders-Roe Princess flying-boat of 1952
Confederate Commando - Stephen Harding reports on a California-based Curtiss C-46 Commando transport
Folland's racers - Part 2 - Ken Wixey continues his three-part history of the distinguished line of inter-war racers designed by Henry P. Folland, who is better known as the creator of the S.E.5a and Gloster Gladiator fighters
The 1927 Baltic 'boat tour - In the summer of 1927 the RAF staged a 3,000-mile flying-boat cruise to the capitals of Northern Europe. It is recalled here by former Commander-in-Chief of Coastal Command Sir Edward Chilton KBE CB
A Fortress in Cork - Bob Reid recounts a USAAF Booing B-17 Flying Fortress's unscheduled visit to a quiet village in neutral Ireland in the spring of 1943
Personal album - military - A selection of photographs of World War One Handley Page bombers rescued from a Buenos Aires dustbin in 1950 (the pictures, not the aeroplanes)
Personal album - civil A collection of pre-First World War photographs taken mainly on the Sussex coast
Far East assignment -Part 2 - J. D. McHard concludes his two-part recollections of service in Singapore and Hong Kong as an RAF photographer in 1948-50
Win a flight - Your chance to have a ride in a Tiger Moth
Preservation profile - A Canadian-built D.H. 83C Fox Moth is the month's subject
Wings of peace - The German Dormer Superwal flying-boat is examined in John Stroud's series on between-the-wars European airliners
Austin's aerial Nippy - Philip Jarrett traces the history of the Whippet, a well-concieved but commercially unsuccessful light single-seat sporting biplane of 1919

DAVID HIGGS'S dramatic cover photograph, depicts pensioner John Jordan about to loop his Booing Stearman PT-17 over Bedfordshire. The German cross on the rudder is a left-over from the Biggies film, in which both pilot and aircraft starred.
MICHAEL O'LEARY'S impressive centre-spread features the magnificent Douglas DC-2 recently restored by the Douglas Historical Foundation. It is seen in flight near Catalina Island in April this year.