Aeroplane Monthly

Grapevine - Michael Oakey's monthly review of happenings in the aircraft preservation world
Excambian reborn - Stephen Harding reports on the rescue and ongoing restoration of the last surviving Sikorsky VS-44A flying-boat
Nothing ventured ... No 3 - Philip Jarrett describes the West/and "Delanne" Lysander of 1941, which utilized a French-inspired tandem-wing configuration to support the extra weight of a defensive tail turret
Getting some in - Former National Service aircraft rigger Ron Swain recalls Royal Air Force recruit training — Fifties style
They who dared first - No 2 - Part Two of a series on great test pilots who lost their lives while test flying, written by the late John Yoxall and originally published in Flight in J 946-47
Flying for fun - Part 1 - Wing Commander Jack Meadows DFC AFC AE begins a new series on his earliest flying years, from his first interest in aircraft at the age of six in 1925 to becoming an RAF flying instructor in 1940
Skywriters
Take a card - No 3 - Alec Lumsden continues his series on the handling of wartime aircraft with the Fairey Fulmar
Personal album - civil - A selection of photographs taken at Elstree aerodrome during 1958-63 by the Editor
Spitfire notebook - Part 2 - Continuing a popular series first published in the late Forties by The Aeroplane Spotter
Yellow rose of Texas - Jay Miller recounts one man's love affair with a 1928 American Waco GXE
Personal album - military - Photographs of Waco Hadrian troop gliders taken in India in 1945 by a former Hadrian instructor
Preservation profile - The former Sky fame Museum Cierva C.30A Autogiro G-ACUU, now housed with the Imperial War Museum collection at Duxford and repainted in its former RAF scheme, is this month's subject
Wings of peace - The beautiful D.H.91 Albatross is the subject of John Stroud's latest chapter in the story of Europe's pre-war airliners. Part One deals with the prototypes — next month covers the type's service with Imperial Airways and its use with the wartime RAF
The origins of aerial bombardment - Part 7 - Harry Woodman examines the use of air power in French and Spanish colonial wars in North Africa before 1914
The Wings Collection - news of a new series of collectable paintings produced by our own Keith Woodcock
Fighter competition - your chance to win V/P tickets to the Classic Fighter Display at D uxford A itfield on July 8
Rich mixture - Light-hearted comments from aviation cartoonist and columnist Holly

FRONT COVER: Photographed by H. J. VAN BROEKHUIZEN at the Valiant Air Command (VAC) airshow at Titusville, Florida in March 1988, these two North American SNJ-5s (the US Navy version of the Harvard trainer) belong to the Six of Diamonds display team. Seen here are N26862 Thunder Pussy and team leader N6984C Six of Diamonds
CENTRE-SPREAD: an evocative picture by MIKE VINES/PHOTO LINK of the Shuttle-worth Collection's BristolF.2B Fighter D8096 airborne over the Bedfordshire countryside near its home at Old Warden.