Day one on Flightglobal

I'm Murdo Morrison and I'm covering for Michael Targett this week as editor of flightglobal.com and it's a hell of a learning curve. Although all of us have been living and breathing the philosophy of online publishing here at RBI for years, my day job is editing Flight International and my skills are essentially "print" ones. Working on a web site is very different with the biggest difference being that - unlike a magazine where a finished product emerges once a week and your five days are dedicated to honing that product - a web site is an ever evolving beast that is not the same from one minute to the next. Unlike a magazine too - with its 30 or so editorial pages - flightglobal.com's content is almost infinite, stretching through the virtual universe in the form of hundreds of thousands of archive pages and links to the worldwide web. And the audience is different too, with a much broader and bigger group of users than the 40,000 or so subscribers and other professional readers I'm used to on Flight International.

We've got some great content set to appear this week, some of it "repurposed" from Flight International, some exclusive to the web site. There's a special on the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing, and this Friday my colleagues and I will be reporting from the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, probably the biggest military flying spectacular in the world. And to continue the history theme, this weekend marked the centenary of AV Roe's first "all British" flight from Walthamstow in London - we were there to record the celebration.