AirSpace: January 2010 Archives

We're tackling the Singapore air show in an all new exciting and different way this year. We're launching the Interactive Flight Daily News (IFDN), a new digital version of the traditional show daily magazines.

Sign up to this now for free so you can see what's going on if you can't make it to the show. You'll see hundreds of images and video stories which will also be showing on Flightglobal, where you can follow the team on twitter, read the latest blogs, see the daily flying display schedule and click on the image to see our interactive aircraft on static display graphic which is heatmapped to show aircraft profiles, including the first ever exhibit of the Airbus A330-200F.

Stefan the Pilot will be at the show being photographed in the best locations with the great and the good from the industry so make time to come and say hello to him.

The Webbies 09, Flightglobal's Aviation Web Awards shortlist has been announced. Find out if your company has made the grade. The bronze, silver and gold winners will be announced during the first week of February. Good luck from all at Flightglobal.

Check in the archive to see what Flight was reporting on 100 years ago this week, like the construction of the British Military Aeronautical's new dirigible shed at Farnborough and aerial propellers and "what makes them interesting". The archive also records the deaths of "martyrs who have sacrificed their lives to the new art of flying".

See the video channel currently highlighting four videos that look back at Flight 1549, one year on. One video shows Capt "Sully" testifying on the challenges on aviation before the House Aviation SubCommittee.

The Airline Business Blog posts a piece about the recent Haitian earthquake. Lori Ranson says that numerous carriers that have offered help and aid but the Port au Prince airport continues to face challenges in handling the large volume of relief efforts. Humanitarian agencies are having trouble gaining access to the airport. There's a great image uploaded to AirSpace showing two hard workers keeping the windscreen of an A330 clean before takeoff.

Dirigible shed

Propellers http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1910/1910%20-%200040.html

Martyrs http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1910/1910%20-%200034.html

Video http://www.flightglobal.com/pages/video.htm?navigationid=531&slotid=47

Haiti

http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace/media/commercial_aviation/a330-ci-in-cleaning-process-52071.aspx

The Airbus A380 was the most important aircraft of the decade according to Flightglobal users as a result of the holiday season's poll question.

The A380 came top at 46% out of a list of suggested aircraft including the Boeing 787, Citation Mustang, Eurofighter Typhoon and Northrup Grumman Global Hawk among others.

Users were also able to nominate other aircraft as it had had its first flight or come into service in the last 10 years.

The poll question was inspired by an AirSpace forum discussion "A decade in review: What have been the highlights/events that shaped the Noughties?"

Take a look at what Flight was reporting on 100 years ago with 1910's first issue of the year. The front cover hosts a picture of a "clever 'faked' photograph" with the caption: "An impression of the future - flying in the clouds". It's good to know we were predicting the future back then.

AirSpace has some great images uploaded by users including this one, one of the most commented, of an RAF Harrier by TJ.