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Mark Pilling (Editor Airline Business) recently blogged about Stefan's trip to Cancun (and Atlanta!).
But what is it all about? Who is Stefan? What's he doing in Cancun? What's he type rated on? Is his icy cool demenour natural or has he had plastic surgery?
All will be revealed before long no doubt.
Flight International issue - 25th Nov - 1 Dec 2008
Take a look at Mary Kirby's blog post on Finnair's future fleet come the year 2093. There's a great concept image of an aircraft the looks like a very sharp paper aircraft. We've added these images to our Future Concepts gallery on AirSpace.
Flight Daily News went to Dubai last week to cover the MEBA 2008 show. Read our pdf pages on the three days of news including Royal Jet defying the market downturn and how the UAE faces a people challenge as the human resource base diminishes despite industry expansion.
Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary hosted a press conference last week to launch THAT calendar and defend the use of gratuitous images for the charity angle. Our own community editor Stuart Clarke filmed the man in a fetching swimsuit and pulling silly faces. Most likely the only thing he did pull that morning.
See a video of a cow being knocked over by an incoming biplane. Flightglobal would advise animal lovers not to watch this one.
FlightBlogger says that twin 787s are undergoing final assembly with red painted rudders. Dreamliners Three and Four are destined for Northwest but he wonders whether Delta Northwest's Boeing 787s will be painted first in Northwest or Delta colours? He says: "I would imagine that Delta doesn't love the idea of having to pay for repainting of two new aircraft," so a decision ought to be made quite soon.
As is my want, on this blog I occasion drift into talking about digital journalism and how traditional news reporting is changing and evolving as the internet defines a new set of rules.
At the heart of these new journalistic rules is the user/audience/reader.
It is how today's audience is choosing to access information that is largely steering how the journalist works to provide it.
There's a great new YouTube clip (in the extended entry of this post) of a drunk journalist from Birmingham covering the Obama trail that encapsulates this transition between the old and new approaches.
Glossing over the most amusing bit of clip - the admission of plagiarising news.bbc.co.uk stories - 1m30secs into this video Mr Adam Smith aka Steve Zacharanda drunkenly sums up the whole old/new journalism divide that talented journos are working to overcome. Or as an esteemed colleague of mine aptly puts it: "I think it's the divide between good and crap journalism (and journalists)."
Here's the bit I mean in transcript:
Drunk hack: "There's 100,000 people in Birmingham that are going to be reading this and it's their version of events in America as I see it."
(Don't they have TVs in Birmingham then?)
Camera boy: "So tomorrow it will be online?"
(Instinctively sensing the YouTubery potential ...)
Drunk hack: "NO! It's not going to be online! It's going to be printed in papers. I'm a proper news journalist ..."
(Yeah, whatever, Cut-and-Paste Boy ...)
The obvious irony is that without BBC's progressive approach to online news reporting he wouldn't have anything to cut and paste for his newspaper article.
Hat tip to FlightBlogger who's taken time to highlight 5 cool things on Flightglobal that he was previously ignorant of.
His picks are:
Regular readers of this Blog should be aware of most of this stuff but in case some of this great content is slipping by unnoticed I'll join Jon in selecting my choices for 5 cool things on Flightglobal that you might not know about:
Week on the Web podcast - it's an audio version of the regular Week on the Web feature which appears here and in the magazine. You can subscribe via iTunes or on AirSpace
AirSpace image competitions - as well as the big front cover one that's running at the moment, there are regular weekly image-based competitions over on AirSpace. They include: caption competition and spaceflight image of the week
Dynamic aircraft profiles - our growing porfolio of aircraft profiles dynamically bring the best and latest information on any given aircraft together in one place
Email newsletters - why go through the rigmoral of browsing to find out the news when stuff that's relevant to you can be delivered straight to your inbox
Flightglobal on the web - if you love flightglobal and want to embed it into some of your other web activity you can do so in various ways. This page showcases some of our other web activity
It's that time of year again. Ryanair calendar time.
The now infamous Ryanair girls have once again stripped off in the name of publicity charity.
This year's launch was an unhappy coincidence of timing with a Ryanair 737 landing heavy and overrunning in Rome following bird strike, but never ones to be dismayed Ryanair ploughed on, persuading a couple of the girls to shrug off their uniforms and brave the chilly Dublin weather to help get the media in the mood.
More images from the launch and the Ryanair calendar are on AirSpace ...
The proceeds are going to the Dublin Simon Community which provides services for the homeless in Dublin.
The calendar is available to buy here ...
Today is Remembrance Day in the UK, a day traditionally set aside to consider those who served and died in the Armed Services fighting to protect their country.
Nowhere is this debt to these men and women better illustrated than the Flight historic archives.
Remembrance Day is on the closest Sunday to 11th November - the day the Great War ended 90 years ago back in 1918.
The front cover of Flight magazine from 14th November 1918 consists solely of a moving and heartfelt message from King George V to the Royal Air Force thanking them fore their contribution to the victory.
At the time Flight itself was playing a vital role in recording and reporting on the ground-breaking way of waging war that was aerial combat. Elsewhere in that issue Sir Auckland Geddes, Minister of National Services is quoted as saying "Newspapers are an essential part of our war organisation".
This is followed by a Comment piece from the Editor and Founder Stanley Spooner, and although our thoughts of that day are instinctively filled with sadness and pride, his emotions upon hearing the news that peace has come are more upbeat with the taste of victory:
Of course Remembrance Day reflects more than just the achievements of the service men and women of the First World War.
Elsewhere in the Archives there are moving and emotional pieces focussing on losses and victories from World War II and other armed conflicts.
From all of those entries, articles and features the victory edition of Flight from May 1945 is one of obvious significance. In it one simple but stark set of figures jumped out at me from a table totalling the numbers of lost aircraft.
As always a minute's silence will be held today at 11:11am
Flight has always been at the forefront of the aviation industry's online activity - from web first news, web-wide search, community space and premium content. And of course there's our 100 year archive of magazine pages scanned in, fully searchable and free to access - a clear demonstration of our online distinction and heritage.
So we feel we're in a position to help celebrate and acknowledge the very best and brightest aviation websites and online activities.
That's why we're launching the Flightglobal Webbies -The Aviation Web Awards.
We're looking for established industry leaders and striving newcomers and everyone in between to enter the Flightglobal Webbies or nominate their favourites in the eight aviation-related categories.
If you're part of the thriving online community of happy people that work and play with aircraft then get involved and make sure the best of the best are entered and nominated.
The categories are:
Webbies links ...
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Hi and welcome to the Editor’s Blog, I’m Michael Targett.
I joined Flightglobal as Editor in March 2007.
In addition to the aviation industry, I’m interested in digital journalism, online communities, social and business networking and virtual environments.
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