Aeroplane Monthly

Grapevine - Michael Oakey's monthly review of happenings in the aircraft preservation world
On silver wings - Part 6 - Owen Thetford recounts the Service history of the Armstrong Whitworth Siskin
Nothing ventured ... No 12 - Philip Jarrett describes another scaled-down experimental prototype, the Saro A.37 Shrimp flying-boat of 1939
Armchair aviation
Skywriters
An afternoon with the Baroudeur Hugh - O'Neiil recounts his brief flirtation with a French lightweight jet fighter of the Fifties - "light-weight" in this context meaning "low-cost and lacking wheels"
Take a card - No 11 - Alec Lumsden looks at the ATA handling notes of the mighty Short Stirling
The Great Air Race - Malcolm Fife's superb colour coverage of the aircraft used in the recent filming of the Australian blockbuster on the MacRobertson England-Australia air race of October 1934
Halcyon days at Brooklands - Part 2 Tony - Spooner DSO DFC concludes his two-part recollection of a memorable period he spent learning to fly at Brooklands, that cradle of British aviation, in the late Thirties
Flights and frights in in thrities - Part 1 - Dopey Edwards DFC begins a new six-part series of recollections of his eventful RAF flying career up to World War Two
Personal album - military A selection of photographs of World War One training crashes near Rugby
Preservation profile - Adrian Balch outlines the schizophrenic existence of Tiger Moth/Jackaroo/Tiger Moth G-APAM, once the racing mount of the fate Sheila Scott
Wings of peace - John Stroud's series on between-the-wars European airliners continues with a selection of French biplane flying-boats
Puff the magic Dragon - and friends - Former Australian bush pilot Macarthur Job recalls his affectionate association with the de Havilland Dragon
Rich mixture - More levity from Holly
Diversions - The third of our special competition pages staged in conjunction with our sister magazine War in the Air

FRONT COVER: GORDON BAIN'S stunning shot of de Havilland D.H.82A Tiger Moth G-BFHH (and matching lighthouse) was taken on October 17, 1989, off Beachy Head, East Sussex. The pilot was Peter Harrison.