And it's heartening to see it so well received.
Within 5 minutes of deploying the new look comments were being left in praise of the new design.
And it's heartening to see it so well received.
Within 5 minutes of deploying the new look comments were being left in praise of the new design.
This week Flight went to ParcAberporth in windy west Wales UAVs and The Blades Aerobatic Team in action. See pictures on AirSpace ...
An EF-18 Hornet was caught on camera carrying out a tricky landing after a landing gear malfunction. See the images on Flightglobal.
David Learmount becomes the latest Flight journalist to join the blog squad with his eponymous blog, complete with new look page templates and a snazzy universal header ...
Elsewhere in the blogosphere FlightBlogger has been getting all excited about the 787 power on. You can read his take on the milestone achievement on his popular blog.
And a spy picture from the Mojave Desert made it onto Flightglobal. It possibly reveals a part of the SpaceShipII cockpit.
EADS has performed the roll-out ceremony for the Airbus Military A400M transport and we've got pictures of it resplendent in its military paint job
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The eponymous blog is Learmount and its writer is Operations and Safety Editor David Learmount. David's extremely well known and respected in the industry and will be using his vast experience to help explore the key issues from his particular sector in aviation.
It's actually been a little while now since we've launched a new blog - prior to Learmount it was LeftField back in Feb.
The reason for this is not because David has been holding out of the rack for a record amount of time, quite the opposite. Rather it's that Learmount is the first blog to go live with our new look template.
Even more importantly it's the very first page to go live with our long (long long) awaited redesign.
And with a modern approach towards redesign we're rolling it out to the various parts of the site in stages, as and when we're ready to do so.
First will be the blogs, then the news channels and home page, plus a new shop, next comes jobs, then AirSpace and then to infinity and beyond ...
Probably the most significant element of the redesign at this stage is our "universal header".
This is the very top level of site navigation and functions (logo, search and login) and will be a universal feature across every part of Flightglobal.
We've also deployed the lesser cousins, the "universal footer" which contains navigation to the usual suspects such as T&C and Contact Us, as well as links to other Flight Services and subscriptions.
The universal elements have become a recent necessity, the urgency increasing through the explosive growth of the website over the last 12 months or so. Our rapid expansion added many different platforms, systems and interfaces to the website, such as blogs, AirSpace forums and our jobs service. Most of these varied significantly in look and feel and so contributed to "website disorientation", where visitors either get lost through inconsistent navigation or are simply ignorant of content's existence.
Hopefully this is first step to correcting that and also the first big step to delivering our mouth-watering redesign.
As ever, I welcome your feedback ... (email me or comments below)
All you need to do is give the best caption to this photo from the Farnborough Air Show back in 1950:
Submit your captions on this thread in AirSpace please ...
Unfortunately we cannot offer travel or accomodation so you will need to get there yourselves.
We will announce the winner on the 7th July!
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AirSpace is hosting a gallery of images from the Air Sudan crash that occurred in Khartoum last week and of course Flightglobal.com has a video plus all the latest news as investigators discover the cause of the crash.
A photograph of a Spitfire and a Mustang flying too close for comfort caused a stir in the AirSpace forums where users have been hotly debating whether it was intentional or simply an optical illusion.
In AirSpace's cutaway gallery users can find a whole range of newly uploaded drawings including military and civil helicopters and business aircraft.
In the DEW Line Stephen Trimble blogs about the Joint Cargo Aircraft (JCA) programme which he says is "just confusing aircraft" programme.
The confusion now focuses on Boeing's always-mercurial role in the L-3 Communications/Alenia Aeronautica partnership that's supplying the C-27J to the US Army.
Time is ticking and you have until 20 June to vote for your 100 Greatest on AirSpace to be in with a chance to win a Sony Camcorder.
The winning civil and military aircraft, engine, person and moment in aviation will be announced at the Farnborough air show as part of Flight's 100th year in publishing celebrations.
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So for all of you who've nothing better to do while you're sitting in front of your computer, I've compiled the nattily titled:
Top 10 Most Blatant Uses of Sex for an Aviation-related Marketing Purpose
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Our very own Mary Kirby shows that it doesn't hurt to flash the odd bit of leg every now and again, especially when it's accompanied with top-drawer journalism and razor-sharp insight |
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Picture: Thailand's Nok Air brings new meaning to 'check-in girls' Thai low-cost carrier Nok Air is expands its fleet and, in an attempt to get bums on seats, gets the Check-In girls to expose their midriffs |
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Video: Travel company advert that makes Boeing land beach side! Dutch company X-travel, use the Club 18-30s idea married with a beach landing 737 to plug their summer flights |
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Jet2 makes two scrawny girls stand around in Leeds to be oggled by random fashion twins |
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One day only: Ryanair's X-rated in-flight entertainment With their second entry Ryanair proves that no Public Holiday is safe as April Fool's Day gets the trademark Ryanair treatment. |
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'Beauties and the beast' as Klimov basks in reflected glory of MiG-29OVT Klimov proudly shows off the gravity-defying aerobatic display of the MiG-29 OVT fighter via the medium of stand assistants Elena and Ekaterina |
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Time is running out for you chance to join the likes of NASA's Piers Sellers, Lockheed Martin's Jon Beasley, Formula One's Sir Frank Williams and Virgin Galactic's Will Whitehorn in voting for your 100 Greatest (in association with Bombardier) in celebration of Flight's 100 years of publishing.
You nominated hundreds of different civil and military aircraft, engines, aviation moments and your favourite person in the industry.
Now you have just seven days to vote (voting closes 20th June) for the most popular from the lists that you provided.
Voting is really close with just a few dozen votes seperating potential winners in some of the categories, even after the thousands of votes already submitted. So your votes could still make the difference!
You can vote for your 100 GREATEST in these categories:
Civil aircraft / military aircraft / engine / person / moment
By voting for your 100 GREATEST you are in the running to win a Sony Camcorder.
The closing date is 20 June and the winning civil and military aircraft, winning engine, winning moment and winning person will be announced at this year's Farnborough air show.
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Ground Crew - New users welcome, with a little patience you will soon be riding up the AirSpace chart
Cabin Crew - A step up the ladder in becoming an AirSpace veteran. Still someway to go but with a little luck...
Engineer - Reach this level and expect a wondrous prize (well a prize anyway). If you are already at this level, let Disco Stu know
First Officer: Very near the top, you are close to the top of AirSpace tree and only require a little more effort to it.
Captain: You are at AirSpace Everest. Well done, you are a top dog of the community where moderation access awaits you.
To keep up to date with all the latest AirSpace developments, check out Stu's blog Jetwashed ...
]]>How much wing could wing flex flex, if wing flex could flex wings? asks FlightBlogger in a blog post last week.
He included an interesting diagram to demonstrate the wing movement and he compiled a blog post to mark the "Powering On" of the avionics in the 787.
Take a look at Flightglobal.com's collection of IATA AGM 2008 videos of leading industry figures including BA CEO Walsh talking to Flight about the fuel crisis and sailing uncharted waters.
Last week saw the overrun of a TACA A320 in Honduras and Flight had the story well covered with images in a gallery on AirSpace and video of still images, some of which are distressing. Also there's a video of an Italian army NH90 helicopter seen crashing into a lake in front of air show spectators while performing a manoeuvre as part of an aerial display.
AirSpace is hosting some images of Royal Jet's BBJ including the bedroom and the cockpit. More images on AirSpace worth a look are the Eurofighter Typhoon engine on display at ILA 2008 and the B-2 gallery to illustrate news of the B-2 crash report which was published last week.
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As well as all the news and views via the usual news channels, we've recruited ex-Caribbean Airlines Chief Executive Peter Davies as roving video reporter grilling airline Chief Execs such as Willie Walsh on the pertinent issues coming out of the event.
Here are the latest vids:
There's also a downloadable daily newsletter available here ...]]>
If you're one of those that's interested in both then you might fancy getting your hands on a signed photo of F1 champion Kimi Raikkonen who was begrudgingly signing mostly Piaggio stuff at Ebace.
Despite the scrum Flight's brand currency was enough to our photo done as well, (which incidentally was taken by our very own Max Kingsley-Jones).
Find out how to win the signed photo of F1 champion Kimi Raikonnen here ...
You can see the shortlist here on the 100 Greatest page and vote for your choices.
The winners of the categories will be announced at this year's Farnborough Air Show both online and at Flight's 100-year anniversary party. Every voter also is automatically entered into a prize draw for the chance to win a Sony Camcorder.
The judging process for the final shortlist was exhaustive. Flight's senior editors and strategists gathered for days in a darkened room pouring over the nominations and arguing their case for inclusions or exclusions.
Fundamentally, the judges were looking for worthy nominations from the last 100 years but certain criteria were taking into consideration.
The shortlists were to include choices that reflected balance both in terms of geography and chronology.
We wanted all time periods (within the last 100 years) and types of aircraft and nations to be represented (as long as they merited it!) to give the voters a broad spectrum to consider. Go here to study the 100 Greatest shortlists in more detail through Flightglobal's online resources ...
Our Head of Blogging at Reed Business Information (Flight's publishing house) has documented the exhausting process here for any of you really interested in the details.
However the up-shot for most of us is that our bloggers will benefit from a better suite of tools (such as an iPhone interface and improved WYSIWYG formatting tools), and hopefully produce better looking blog posts as a result.
In addition, the new platform frees us up to tackle the rusty blog templates and embark upon a much-needed redesign program for all our blogs.
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Following the recent acquisition of JP Fleets to Flight's product portfolio, you can now pre-order your copy of JP Fleets 2008.
Check out the new video channel on Flightglobal and see our own webmaster Andrew Costerton’s video footage of a his recent Chinook flight as part of the RAF's 90th anniversary celebrations and see a speeded up version of a Southwest aircraft being built and painted in the hangar.
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