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This week Flightglobal publication Flight International features on the cover India's Tejas light combat aircraft, photographed by Billypix at the Aero India show in Bangalore. You can read all the news and see all the video, photos, blogs, Tweets, and more here.

This week Flightglobal publication Flight International sports an air-to-air photo of the G120TP, supplied by Grob Aircraft, to mark our flight test report of the G120TP by pilot Peter Collins.

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A scene uncommon at airports but frequent at scrapyards--a DC-10 nose upright--is on the cover of this week's Flight International magazine for our feature article: aviation under pressure to reduce landfill waste from scrapped airliners. The DC-10 is seen as Chateauroux Air Centre in France and photographed by the scrapyard.

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The third Rolls-Royce Trent 1000-powered 787 Dreamliner, photographed at Farnborough by Airline Business editor Max Kingsley-Jones, is on the cover of this week's Flight International magazine for our feature article: counting the cost of Boeing's tarnished dream.

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This week's cover image of Flightglobal publication Flight International is the winner of our annual cover photo competition. The winning photo was taken by AirSpace user Coalburner and depicts a Northwest Airlines Boeing 747-200 departing London Gatwick. He took the photo with a Nikon D70.

We also had category winners, including best photos for sleek jets, old flyers, general stars, and "best of the rest". We'll feature those photos in the coming days.

We wouldn't leave you without reading material for the holidays, and this week's cover articles include how Airbus is more restrained with its market outlook than Boeing, but is keeping faith in its A380 aircraft. We also have a feature on flying props in the Arctic.

This week Flightglobal publication Flight International presents its annual, and free, directory of the world's air forces.

We also look at common threads across nations. Budgetary pressures have influenced nations around the world over the last year in how they operate their existing military aircraft and seek to acquire more capable and cost-effective replacements.

We look at Lockheed Martin's F-35 programme, which Lockheed says is on track despite ongoing challenges. We ask if it can still deliver the dream.

On the cover (below) is a photograph from Lockheed Martin of the first two F-35A flight test aircraft.

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This week Flightglobal publication Flight International looks back at the Space Shuttle in a special report as the craft nears retirement.

Even before the Apollo space programme of the 1960s put a man on the Moon, a fledgling NASA was conceptualising a reusable spacecraft for manned flight. Work on the Space Shuttle began in earnest in the 1970s, with the first of four test flights in 1981, followed by operational missions beginning in 1982. Now, more than 30 years later, the Space Shuttle is tentatively scheduled to be retired from service in 2011 after 135 launches - and countless changes to the way the world sees space, aerospace and the Earth itself. As the programme prepares to close, we look back across its lifespan - at how the spacecraft itself conceived, its contributions to aerospace and what might come next for manned space exploration. We even fly along on the de-orbit and final approach path the orbiter will take on its last trip home.

Contents

• Armchair astronaut: We "fly" in the Space Shuttle simulator
• History: How it was conceived
• Schedule: Waiting for Discovery
• The future: After the Shuttle

The cover photo is a NASA photograph of Space Shuttle Atlantis lifting off from Florida on 14 May on its final mission, STS-132.

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This week Flightglobal publication Flight International has a special report and assessment on world airliners, including the 787, Sukhoi SuperJet, MS-21, cargo conversions and other jets.

Will Airbus and Boeing bend to pressure to replace popular aircraft in the narrowbody market and fend off challenges from Bombardier's CSeries and China and Russia? Widebody programmes have advanced, while older types have faded and problems remain for ultra-large types. Weak demand is handicapping Ilyushin and Tupolev, but cargo conversion providers are optimistic. Read our report here.

Undoubtedly the aircraft on everyone's mind is the 787 Dreamliner--which possibly faces a new set of delays--and the aircraft's departure from the Farnborough airshow is depicted on the cover. Photo credit to Boeing.

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This week Flightglobal publication Flight International reports the show news from last week's National Business Aviation Association show where NetJets' mega order for up to 125 Phenom 300s indicate the biz aviation sector is pointing the way to recovery. There's more NBAA news here. The cover photograph shows a Phenom 300 at the NBAA static display park. The photo was taken by Liam Ritson of BillyPix.

This week Flightglobal publication Flight International looks at Virgin Galactic's suborbital space tourism programme now that the enterprise has gone where no commerical craft has gone before: VSS Enterprise was dropped from 45,000 feet and successfully glided back to Mojave Air and Space port. That flight is featured on our cover, photographed by Virgin Galactic.