Groups around the world are helping earthquake-stricken Haiti, and aviation is no exception. On the commercial front, LAN Cargo flew a 767-300 with 48 tons of relief cargo and is sharing its warehouse with a non-profit organisation gathering more supplies.

In the private sector, Mission Aviation Fellowship recently sent its Quest Kodiak to deliver aid, and John Travolta flew his 707 with supplies--with Scientology ministers in tow, irking some of our readers.

Meanwhile, half way around the world, the Flightglobal team premiered the interactive show daily newspaper at the Singapore Air Show. Check out the new look digital magazine which has videos of aerial displays, interviews with the manufacturers and the daily wrap up by our man in Singapore Siva Govindasamy and Jon Ostrower, aka FlightBlogger.

From our archive, this week in 1966 we showed the first Soviet photo of the lunar surface and in 1969 humans started roaming the celestial body, taking their last steps in 1972. Now that America is poised to abandon its plan to return to the moon, the moon may again remain as far from us as it did in that Soviet photo.

Last week the Flightglobal Webbies 2009 winners were announced. Check out the Flight blog to see where you ranked.  

Hot off the (virtual) press today is our first ever Interactive Flight Daily News magazine.

This is a digital-only magazine produced by the Flightglobal team out at this week's Singapore Air Show.

A couple Q&A bits for you:

What's Flight Daily News?

Flight Daily News is a daily magazine produced live at major air shows and industry events throughout the year. It's handed out free to show visitors as they arrive at the event and the idea is to be as up to date with current happenings as possible.

To that aim we sometimes produce Flight Evening News - tagline "today's news today" - which is handed out to show visitors as they leave at the end of the day.

What's a digital magazine?

In its basic form a digital magazine can be just an online pdf version of a physical paper mag. However the digital environment does open up the possibilities of enriching the reader's experience through interactive elements on page.

For example, videos, moving graphics, active hyperlinks, all singing all dancing adverts, that kind of stuff ...

What's in today's copy of iFDN?

Now this is the cool part. Our Interactive Flight Daily News is a purpose-built digital publication - not just a flat online pdf.

We've put the interactive potential at the heart of this new format and as such got tonnes of videos and images to accompany Day 1's top stories.

These include:

• A330F - Airbus give us a first look inside the new freighter
• 787 update - Boeing's Randy Tinseth gives an encouraging message following early progress from the 787 flight test programme
• Highlights of the displays - including the A-10 "warthog" and the flaming F-111
• But there's loads more - 24 pages worth to be exact.

How does it differ from the show coverage on Flightglobal's Singapore page?

Well, the important thing to remember is that they're doing difference things but with the same content - in the same way that websites and magazines do different things.

Flightglobal's Singapore webpage is a terrific hub for everything that's occurring at the show and all the content, stories and multimedia produced by our team out there.

iFDN is topical and provides a snap shot of Day 1 at the show, and from that you can get a feeling for the tone and atmosphere of the business environment. It also offers a richer experience for the reader in a way that the website cannot.

www.flightglobal.com/singapore webpage

A double page spread from iFDN 

The design interface on Flightglobal must by its very purpose accommodate other types of content and usage. The design of iFDN is much more impactful as it can truly focus on doing the one job it has been created for.

And let's not forget it's free! A quality magazine full of stories and videos that professional journalists and designers have worked through the night to deliver ... for FREE!

You lucky people!

Today we've deployed a new-look MRO channel page to replace our old-style Maintenance channel page.

It's our first major code release to the main part of the site since October 2009.

So why has it taken so long to jazz up one channel?

Well, the new MRO channel (and associated articles and article listing pages) represent the first significant step towards a new vision for Flightglobal.

That is to combine the popular free content (which has helped attract over 1.2 million visitors each month) with our world-class professional news and data services (some of which are currently under different brands or on separate websites).

We are going to bring them all together in one place in order to build an experience for visitors and members of Flightglobal that is tailored exactly to their needs, be that entertainment, information or business critical analysis.

The professional side of the site will come under the brand Flightglobal Pro, with the orange Pro logo representing content and services that are paid for and subscriber-only.

Where the MRO channel fits in is that it's the first of our channels to have the Pro news content switched on. As we go along we'll be introducing the Pro experience to other channels and also more stuff to Pro, like Pro data, more functionality and greater personalisation options.

We understand that mixing up free and paid-for content has the potential to confuse visitors to the site who are or aren't entitled to see Pro content.

To try and sidestep that usability issue, visitors to the MRO channel will now start to see a series of icons (purple for free content, orange for Pro content) which will help guide them to other stuff they might like or find useful, as well as indicate what they can access or what they've paid for.

So today is more than just a fresh look for the MRO channel; it's a beta launch for a brand new Flightglobal which includes a beta launch for Flightglobal Pro.

As one British mobile telecoms outfit says: The future is bright, the future is orange ...

We're tackling the Singapore air show in an all new exciting and different way this year. We're launching the Interactive Flight Daily News (IFDN), a new digital version of the traditional show daily magazines.

Sign up to this now for free so you can see what's going on if you can't make it to the show. You'll see hundreds of images and video stories which will also be showing on Flightglobal, where you can follow the team on twitter, read the latest blogs, see the daily flying display schedule and click on the image to see our interactive aircraft on static display graphic which is heatmapped to show aircraft profiles, including the first ever exhibit of the Airbus A330-200F.

Stefan the Pilot will be at the show being photographed in the best locations with the great and the good from the industry so make time to come and say hello to him.

The Webbies 09, Flightglobal's Aviation Web Awards shortlist has been announced. Find out if your company has made the grade. The bronze, silver and gold winners will be announced during the first week of February. Good luck from all at Flightglobal.

For the last few months we've been developing something called YODL - a cool and user-friendly desktop application which delivers all your favourite aviation and aerospace industry news and content straight onto the desktop of your computer.

A desktop application is a piece of software which you download and install onto your computer, as opposed to a website which you visit via a network connect (and which is for the most part remote from your machine).

YODL is built on the Adobe Air platform so users of apps such as TweetDeck will be familiar with the format.

The configurable interface allows you to add channels of content based around focused subject material, eg. aerospace technology.

Once you've subscribed your YODL app will update automatically if it detects any new content in any of your channels, and will display a friendly little message in the corner of your screen to let you know.

Here's the kind of stuff it will contain:

• Up-to-the minute news
• Free digital editions of Airline Business magazine and Daily air show magazines
• E-newsletters
• Jobs
• Cool stuff
• Promotions

Best of all, it's completely free to use and there's no lengthy forms to fill out, so it's definitely worth a trial.

Visit www.flightglobal.com/yodl for more information

If you're still not convinced, check out this video which dazzles and grooves its way through the YODL experience in one whole minute.

Check in the archive to see what Flight was reporting on 100 years ago this week, like the construction of the British Military Aeronautical's new dirigible shed at Farnborough and aerial propellers and "what makes them interesting". The archive also records the deaths of "martyrs who have sacrificed their lives to the new art of flying".

See the video channel currently highlighting four videos that look back at Flight 1549, one year on. One video shows Capt "Sully" testifying on the challenges on aviation before the House Aviation SubCommittee.

The Airline Business Blog posts a piece about the recent Haitian earthquake. Lori Ranson says that numerous carriers that have offered help and aid but the Port au Prince airport continues to face challenges in handling the large volume of relief efforts. Humanitarian agencies are having trouble gaining access to the airport. There's a great image uploaded to AirSpace showing two hard workers keeping the windscreen of an A330 clean before takeoff.

Dirigible shed

Propellers http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1910/1910%20-%200040.html

Martyrs http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1910/1910%20-%200034.html

Video http://www.flightglobal.com/pages/video.htm?navigationid=531&slotid=47

Haiti

http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace/media/commercial_aviation/a330-ci-in-cleaning-process-52071.aspx

The Airbus A380 was the most important aircraft of the decade according to Flightglobal users as a result of the holiday season's poll question.

The A380 came top at 46% out of a list of suggested aircraft including the Boeing 787, Citation Mustang, Eurofighter Typhoon and Northrup Grumman Global Hawk among others.

Users were also able to nominate other aircraft as it had had its first flight or come into service in the last 10 years.

The poll question was inspired by an AirSpace forum discussion "A decade in review: What have been the highlights/events that shaped the Noughties?"

Take a look at what Flight was reporting on 100 years ago with 1910's first issue of the year. The front cover hosts a picture of a "clever 'faked' photograph" with the caption: "An impression of the future - flying in the clouds". It's good to know we were predicting the future back then.

AirSpace has some great images uploaded by users including this one, one of the most commented, of an RAF Harrier by TJ.

While most of us have been eating cold turkey every day for the last week, the aviation world did not stop.

Here at Flightglobal, we put together some lists including Flightglobal's list of the year's first flights, roll-outs and anniversaries, how we covered the air shows around the globe and of course the usual top tens from the stories, the pictures and the videos that had you clicking furiously to see what the big noise was about.

You've still got time to enter the Webbies 09 Flightglobal's Aviation Web Awards. You can nominate your own favourite sites, as well, in the eight aviation-related categories including two new categories celebrating community and enthusiast websites and effective use of social media. The closing date for entries and nominations is 10th January so get cracking.

See how Flight saw the world in its last issue of its first year. In the 18th December 1909 issue, a reader, Harold Kelk wrote to the editor questioning the origination of the word "aviation", saying: M. Jules Verne used [the word] in his book "The Clipper of the Clouds ".

"I think 'aviation' a much pleasanter word to use than 'volitation', and its exact meaning quite near enough to the mark to justify its use," he says.

There are some great images that were entered into this year's AirSpace's front cover competition, but it was the picture of the Raytheon Sentinel, the RAF's Airborne Stand-Off Radar equipped Bombardier Global Express - departing from RAF Waddington and snapped at an intriguing angle that surprised the Flightglobal judges.

AirSpace user Sunshine Band wins a cash prize and a framed Flight International cover.

Take a look at this other entry in the Sleek Jets category with a football painted on its nose.

During the Christmas holiday we've teed up some year-end stories for you to delight in, ranging from the top ten best images on AirSpace, the top ten best videos and stories through the year, anniversaries, roll-outs, cutaways and first flights, which will, of course, include the Boeing 787, for which we waited with baited breath for two and a half years.

AirSpace user Goose is excited about a home-made aircraft that actually works. See his post about a replica P-51D Mustang made by a retired dentist who used some of his implements to build it.

Stephen Trimble's The DEW Line blog has a great post showing an image of four F-22s flying over the UAE. He posted another image of China Military Aviation's new four-jet freighter and thinks it looks like a cross between a C-130 and the A400M. What do you think?

The big news of the week was the first flight of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner which successfully took to the skies, albeit two and a half years later than anticipated.

The jet lifted off the tarmac to the sounds of excited whoops and cheers from spectators. Jon Ostrower's FlightBlogger was in his element as resident 787 expert, tweeting and streaming video live at the scene at Paine Field, Everett.

An AirSpace blogger Andrew Sieber posted in interesting piece with images and text about the chase planes that would be trailing the 787.

If you'd also like to have your own blog hosted by AirSpace, where it will be read by an audience of over 5,000 users, email Flightglobal's Community Editor Stuart Clarke.    

On the Flightglobal archive, read the article "Flight in 1915" which is the result of asking people where they imagined the "position of flying in six years' time". M. Jules Bois volunteers a prediction for 100 years time suggesting that the "motor car will have gone completely out of fashion, but the bicycle, in a new form, will enable the rider to soar in mid-air".

See a bizarre an image of a puff of smoke which an AirSpace user has uploaded to AirSpace. Flyer1 seems disgruntled as he describes the image as a stealth Royal Air Force after the government has made their cuts. "Stealth technology by STINK Works....it has disappeared in a puff of smoke!"