Week on the Web

Writing in response to a post on the Flight Blog about the influence of birds in the early science of flight, Americas Editor John Croft discovered a bird in his back garden that had no tail yet was still able to fly. He said in his blog As the Cro(ft) Flies: "Birds sometimes get their tail feather stuck in the ice, which pulls out the features when the bird takes off. The feathers eventually grow back."

NASA Edge released a video of STS-130 Flight Day 8. Watch as the final module for the space station relocates the window to another position on Hyperbola.

Marvelling at modern technology, Runway Girl writes a post about T-Mobile USA launching the HTC HD2 smartphone soon which will be preloaded with lots of goodies, including six months of free access to Aircell's Gogo in-flight Internet. She says this is "another clever way to get people to experience Gogo."

FlyPHANUK posted a great image of Air New Zealand aircraft onto images on AirSpace.

And why not have a browse around the Flightglobal Shop and pre-order your copy of the JP Biz Jet directory out 1st March.