Michael: September 2008 Archives

We're starting the process of building a collection of aircraft profiles on Flightglobal.

Our aircraft profiles bring the best and latest information on any given aircraft together in one place.

Sources include the unique 100 Year Flight Archive, images from AirSpace and Airliners.net, news from Flightglobal and the rest of the aviation web, videos from FlightLevel350.com, blogs from Flightglobal, and discussion from AirSpace.

The profiles are dynamic and update automatically as new content is added to any of the source sites.

The latest profiles are on our Aircraft Profiles page and as we rapidly expand our collection the new ones will be added to the list:

Our dynamic pages can actually be built on any possible subject simply by changing the keyword in the URL. Eg. flightglobal.com/landingpage/sausages.aspx

The difference between these and the ones on the left is that unless we have formally created the introductory content to correspond to that keyword then the top box will not appear.

However the advantage of having a go yourself is that we can see what you're looking at, whether it's "monkeys" or "C-130s". That then steers our decision on what we spend time embellishing and beautifying! True user-centric design in action.

http://www.flightglobal.com/landingpage/monkey.aspx
http://www.flightglobal.com/landingpage/c-130.aspx

We've made some recent changes to our 100-year historical archive.

The Flightglobal Archive invites you to explore 100 years of aviation history as it appeared in the original pages of Flight Magazine from 1909-2005.

As well as a lovely new look and the implementation of the Universal Header, we're working up some Archive topics to improve the user experience of the Archives.

So far we've compiled some lists in War and defence, Space exploration and Incidents and accidents and have more Topics in progress.

The whole Archive experience is a collaborative and ongoing project.

We welcome your input in growing our topic categories and discovering hidden gems within the depths of time. If you find something of interest that you want to share with us and other Archive visitors then let us know ...

We've introduced a new service on the Safety Channel called Incident Watch.

It's compiled by our Flight Data Team who diligently research the web every working day for all reported incidents to any powered aircraft (GA and above, including military).

Incident Watch is a sample of the events which they find and add to the World Incident Database.

Extracts and analyses from the World Incident Database may be purchased from Flight Insight

Well done to NeilG who correctly guessed that last week's airport was Bamako Senou (BKO) in Mali, although heaven knows how he worked that out.

To recap, we have snapped a Google Maps' image of ten International Airports around the world. Each week one of those images will be revealed, and the person who guesses the quickest each week (by commenting on the photograph) will win an exclusive brand new AirSpace t-shirt, plus the endless respect of your peers.

Here this week's teaser (sent in by a previous week's winner Aiso)

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

Flight International issue 9-15 September 2008

See an image of showing Bombardier's CRJ1000 first flight as posted on the Runway Girl blog and have a look at a picture of a frog in aircraft window taken by a passenger on a Turkish Airlines' Airbus A320 from Moscow to Istanbul.

The aircraft's journey before the Istanbul-Moskow flight, was from Adana, a large city in the southern Mediterranean region of Turkey where, apparently, tons of live frogs are sent to Japan and China to star in restaurant menus!

Watch the blowing up of a UK Royal Air Force Lockheed Martin C-130J which was previously destroyed after sustaining heavy damage in an incident while landing at a remote site in Iraq's Maysaan province. A Board of Inquiry decided it was "deemed unrecoverable due to operational constraints".

See a picture of the first of two Ilyushin Il-96-400T freighter for Russian flag carrier Aeroflot's cargo arm as it broke cover.

Watch a 1:9 scale radio-controlled model of the C-17 Globemaster III in action.

This one off special model is possibly the largest radio controlled model aircraft and features a fully operational cargo door and pneumatically operated flaps.

Browse the new look Flightglobal Archive and see 100 years of aviation history as it appeared in the original pages of Flight Magazine from 1909-2005.

The Archive is a collaborative and ongoing project and we welcome your input in growing our topic categories and discovering hidden gems. If you find something of interest that you want to share with us and other Archive visitors then let us know what you think by emailing our webmaster at webmaster@flightglobal.com.

Subscribe to the audio podcast version of Week on the Web ...

It's that time again.

Hats off to mikec who recognised Dunedin International Airport (DUD) in New Zealand. At least it to you a couple of days to work it out.

Here's this week's offering.

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

Good luck!

We've just started producing an audio version of Week on the Web.

Produced by our resident radio smoothy Jeff Decker, it's another way in which to access the site's top stories and other hot content.

The weekly podcast is available on AirSpace and soon to be listed on iTunes for those who want to subscribe to auto downloads (I'll post the link when it hits the charts).

As always we welcome your feedback on the length, format and content. If you'd love to see other stuff included then let us know.

Flight International - 19-25 Aug

This week Flight's team of experts have been covering the recent air safety incidents such as the SpanAir MD-82 and Itek Air 737-200 crashes, and the Ryanair 737-800 sudden decompression. Images, analysis and all the latest news can be found at flightglobal.com/safety

David Learmount offers great insight into how frightening incidents such as sudden decompression and go-arounds are handled by the Flight Crew. Flightglobal.com/learmount

Mary Kirby aka Runway Girl asks whether inflight Wi-Fi should be free and uncensored, or regulated to prevent the skies becoming X-rated.

Flight's newest blog Asian Skies was launched this week. It aims to bring you all the latest news and debate from the burgeoning Asian aerospace market.

See pictures of a Cessna aircraft which crashed onto a busy street in Yao, a business district in western Japan, although luckily with no fatalities.

And finally this is week four of the popular Guess the Airport competition on AirSpace in which we ask users to identify an international airport from an aerial image view. This time we've raised the bar so if you think you an airport expert then have a go.