AirSpace: August 2008 Archives

We thought we'd have you stumped last week but congratulations to Aiso and AvGen who both recognised Uruguay's Montevideo Airport in an extremely short time.

So again it's time to see if we can fox you eagle-eyed airport experts.

Here's Week 4:

As usual please post the name and IATA code into the comments field below the image on AirSpace ...

Good luck!

Ok - you guys were seriously quick last week in the inaugural Guess the Airport quiz question to guess that this was Jersey airport in the UK (JER). Joint winners were Titch and Global Ranger, so congratulations to you two - prizes on their way.

This week we've raised the bar! 

Week 2

As usual please post the name and IATA code into the comments field below the image on AirSpace ...

Good luck!

For a bit of fun to keep you busy during the traditional August quiet period we've knocked up a little friendly competition called Guess the Airport.

Basically we've used some aerial images of ten International Airports around the world (courtesy of Google Maps).

Week 1

We'll be publishing a new airport image once a week (every Wednesday afternoon) over on AirSpace.

The person who guesses the quickest each week (by commenting on the photograph) will win an exclusive brand new AirSpace t-shirt, plus the large dollop of kudos.

Please post the name and IATA code into the comments field below the image (on AirSpace not here!).

Good luck!

TIP: Why not subscribe to the Guess the Airport gallery RSS feed so you're alerted as soon as we publish the next image?

A new addition to the link furniture around our articles is the "Discuss this article on AirSpace" option below the main body of the article.

This has been a little while in development and more than a little tricky as it connects two different platforms is several ways.

Its function is to pass through an article headline to our discussion forums for further debate/comment.

If the "Discuss this article on AirSpace" link is followed a new thread is automatically authored in the relevant section of the AirSpace forums with a post featuring a quote from the article and a link back to it.

In addition, it also opens a new blank post below for the user's comment to go in. This functionality obviously requires a user to be registered on AirSpace and will prompt you for login/registration if necessary.

If you're a subsequent user to follow the "Discuss this article on AirSpace" link then the control/widget intelligently knows whether this has already done and so doesn't duplicate the thread. Instead it takes you to the current discussion, which you can reply to having read other users' thoughts.

The control will also display quick links (with time/date stamps) to the latest existing replies to the discussion if present.

One final feature on the control is a "Who is online?" function which shows recent/current visitors and members to the forums.