1. The need to educate is paramount

   Editorial Pages: 203 - 203

2. Commentary

   • Ronald W. Smith

   EditorialNotes Pages: 205 - 206

3. Calendar of events

   Events Pages: 207 - 208

4. In the news

   • Lisa Hemeyer

   News Pages: 209 - 225

5. Book review

   • R. V. Zaretsky

   ReviewPaper Pages: 226 - 227

6. In-flight particle surface temperature measurement: Influence of the plasma light scattered by the particles

   • P. Gougeon
   • C. Moreau

   Reviewed Paper Pages: 229 - 233

7. Application of fracture mechanics to the interpretation of bond strength data from ASTM standard C633-79

   • W. Han
   • E. F. Rybicki
   • J. R. Shadley

   Reviewed Paper Pages: 235 - 241

8. Behavior of Ni-Al particles in argon: Helium plasma jets

   • W. D. Swank
   • J. R. Fincke
   • D. C. Haggard

   Reviewed Paper Pages: 243 - 249

9. A design of experiment study of plasma-sprayed alumina-titania coatings

   • T. J. Steeper
   • D. J. Varacalle
   • J. Nerz

   Reviewed Paper Pages: 251 - 256

10. Study of fracture and erosive wear of plasma sprayed coatings

    • D. Z. Guo
    • L. J. Wang

    Reviewed Paper Pages: 257 - 263

11. On the induction plasma deposition of tungsten metal

    • X. L. Jiang
    • R. Tiwari
    • M. I. Boulos

    Reviewed Paper Pages: 265 - 270

12. Effect of plasma spray processing variations on particle melting and splat spreading of hydroxylapatite and alumina

    • S. J. Yankee
    • B. J. Pletka

    Reviewed Paper Pages: 271 - 281

13. Copper-titanium diboride coatings obtained by plasma spraying reactive micropellets

    • J. G. Legoux
    • S. Dallaire

    Reviewed Paper Pages: 283 - 286

14. A comparison of techniques for the metallographic preparation of thermal sprayed samples

    • M. F. Smith
    • D. T. McGuffin
    • W. J. Lenling

    Reviewed Paper Pages: 287 - 294

15. Selected abstracts of thermal spray literature

    Abstract Pages: 295 - 298