Air Pictorial

Air News - A monthly review of aerospace news from around the world. 'New in View' features the Boeing C-17A Globemaster III.
Concorde video competition
Mirage exports - Sales to Qatar and Taiwan reviewed.
Air Intelligence File - UK military news.
Christmas Gifts - Some seasonal ideas for your present list.
Oakhanger and the Skynet collection - The Editor visits a front-line RAF station with a difference.
Gatwick in the 1950s - An Aerofilms view of the 'Beehive' and its environs.
B-47 - bomber supreme - Ken Wixey recalls the story of the Stratojet, 50 years after the prototype made its first flight as the world's first swept-wing six-jet bomber.
The Civil Scene - by Keith Crowden.
US Military News - by Bob Archer.
Nato & European Notes - by Peter Foster.
Classic British Airliners 1998 calendar
Preservation - Final flight for 'Black 6'.
Radio Watch - by David Smith.
Aviation Archaeology - by David Smith.
Balliol - a turboprop trainer - 40 years too early - Alec Brew concludes his story of this post-war trainer with its Service use and the projects which it spawned.
Carvair - Simon Murdoch updates the history of this DC-4 conversion as the last flyable example keeps the flag flying in Canada.
'Evacuate Now . . . !' - The desperate evacuation by air of Papua New Guinea in 1941-42 recounted by James Grant.
Air Letters - More correspondence on BA colours and an appeal for a missing logbook.
Farnborough's Fleets since 1918 - Part 12 of a series by John D R Rawlings.
Air Videos - Ray Sanger reviews new releases.
Register Review - Recent changes to the UK and Irish registers, compiled by Roger Jackson.
Air Books - New publications reviewed.
Airport Movements - UK airport visitors, assembled by Roger Jackson.

FRONT COVER: As Europe's newest fighter enters service - the Saab Gripen with the Royal Swedish Air Force - this picture seemed an appropriate one on which to end the year. (Photo, Saab).