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It's that time of year again!

For the third year running, you have a chance to get your best image featured on the front cover of the world renowned Flight International magazine, by uploading your images to our AirSpace galleries.

Below is last year's winner - one of over 1,500 high quality entries we received for the 2008 festive issue:

Last year's winning image by Begemont

The best image from the four categories below will adorn the front cover of Flight International's end of year edition.

The winner will also receive a framed copy of that front cover and £100 (GBP).

The four categories this year are:

• Big Birds
The big beasts in aviation are featured in this gallery, encompassing airliners, cargo aircraft and tankers

• Sleek Jets
From nimble and speedy fighters to the more refined biz jets, only the sleek jets need apply

• Old Flyers
An affectionate hat tip to the rich tapestry of aviation gone by, this category is for the old classics

• General Stars
This category is for the GA leading lights and other general aviation images

Here are the rules ...

And here's a descrption of how you can add your image to AirSpace ...

Good luck!

Our #wheresstefan competition on Twitter is well underway with three events in different cities down and more to come. Correct guesses win a Stefan t-shirt so follow our elusive friend (twitter.com/stefanthepilot).

Last week Willie Walsh announced proposals to cut airline emissions by half the 2005 level by 2050.

Users on AirSpace are discussing this and some say they've heard all this before. One user suggests airlines "don't expand, and use hydrogen", another says: " aviation should have been included in Kyoto but it is one polluter among many."

A flying programme to celebrate Birmingham International's 70th anniversary included an autogyro, a military air display and a large number of civil aircraft including an imperial Hercules and an Emirates A380 see more of the event on AirSpace.

You can now buy photos and reprints from Flightglobal's unique 100-year image archive. The Flightglobal Image Store features thousands of historical and modern images, including our extensive technical cutaway drawings and they're available any way you want them, from canvas or jigsaws.

• Week on the Web is also available as an audio podcast on AirSpace and iTunes. 

Flight International issue 10 - 16 March

Last week Flightglobal celebrated the 40th anniversary of Concorde's first flight. Take a look at the 6 March 1969 issue of Flight in our pdf archive dedicated to the first supersonic aircraft which includes an article on the technology used, aircraft structure, fuel system, aerodynamics, flight testing, payload accommodation, aircraft data, a cutaway drawing and an airline pilot's view.

We have 5 copies of a new book; Concorde: A Photographic History to give away and we've created a gallery for you to upload your images and a forum discussion to share your memories of the iconic aircraft.

Get involved in the discussion on AirSpace about Rolls-Royce confirming its RTM322 turboshaft engine is the "engine of record" for a new Eurocopter high-speed rotorcraft research programme dubbed "X3".

One user suggest the X3 looks "remarkably like a modernised Fairy Rotodyne" but wonders "what powers the rotor because the drawing shown (in the discussion) has no anti torque tail rotor which suggests that the rotor is powered, when required, by blade tip jets."

Have you suffered from contaminated cabin air asks another forum post. Neurotoxins get into the cabin air of almost all passenger airliners.

Aircraft manufacturers and the airlines say that when it happens the doses are harmless. One user says he was regularly exposed to fumes over a five year period and suffered headaches, lightheaded and dizziness.

Nausea, stomach pains and diahorrea. Fatigue and lack of concentration. He was later diagnosed with Aerotoxic Syndrome and declared medically unfit to fly.

See a great image of three Virgin aircraft at Los Angeles International Airport last week following the launch of Virgin Blue's long-haul arm V Australia with an inaugural flight from Sydney.

Week on the Web is also available as an audio podcast on AirSpace and iTunes.

For the second year running, AirSpace (our user forums and galleries) has offered you the chance to get your favourite image on to the front cover of the end-of-year special issue of Flight International.

The Competition really kicked into another gear this year with nearly 1,500 images submitted in the six categories. In addition the quality of the entries was second to none and caused the judging process to drag out over several days!

Congratulations go to Begemont and was this spectacular shot of a Russian Air Force Su-27 releasing flares at MAKS 2007

And here's the front cover:

The other category winners were:

Menace - Fighters in Flight
Winner - runlikehell
F-22 Raptor at 2008 Oceana air show in Virginia

History - Birds from Bygone Eras
Winner - Photomotion
Ray Hanna memorial flight at Biggin Hill air show 2006

Precision - Aerial Display Teams
Winner - fleeting_images
UK Royal Navy Lynx Black Cats at RIAT

Majesty - Airliners in Action
Winner - bwiadca
Boeing MD-11 climbing to Alaskan storm from Anchorage 2008

Voyage - General Aviation in Dramatic Locations
Winner - allegra66
Rega A109KT during mountain landing in Switzerland

Response - Inspiring Business Jets
Winner - Global Ranger
Bombardier Challenger 300 (G-KALS) on approach to London Luton 2008

Hat tip to FlightBlogger who's taken time to highlight 5 cool things on Flightglobal that he was previously ignorant of.

His picks are:

• Cutaways
• 100 Years of Flight Archive
• Incident Watch
• Commercial Aircraft Directory
• Videos

Regular readers of this Blog should be aware of most of this stuff but in case some of this great content is slipping by unnoticed I'll join Jon in selecting my choices for 5 cool things on Flightglobal that you might not know about:

Week on the Web podcast - it's an audio version of the regular Week on the Web feature which appears here and in the magazine. You can subscribe via iTunes or on AirSpace

AirSpace image competitions - as well as the big front cover one that's running at the moment, there are regular weekly image-based competitions over on AirSpace. They include: caption competition and spaceflight image of the week

Dynamic aircraft profiles - our growing porfolio of aircraft profiles dynamically bring the best and latest information on any given aircraft together in one place 

Email newsletters - why go through the rigmoral of browsing to find out the news when stuff that's relevant to you can be delivered straight to your inbox

Flightglobal on the web - if you love flightglobal and want to embed it into some of your other web activity you can do so in various ways. This page showcases some of our other web activity

The competition is back again for 2008 ...

The judges are looking for something exceptional. The front cover of Flight International is prestigious podium for any budding photographer to say the least, so understandably the bar is set pretty high.

In order to give anybody entering a shove in the right direction, I've listed a few suggestions below:

The magazine has a rich heritage of striking front covers stretching right back to 1909 so for any image to be included for consideration it has to be:

It's got to be striking

Any front Flight International cover image has to do the job of helping the publication stand out among other magazines

Be unique or out of the ordinary in someway

This is a competition so there will be plenty of other punters entering their images. To stand the best chance yours should have something that makes it stick in the judges' minds

Get the composition right

Remember this is going to appear on the front cover of a magazine which has a predefined size and shape. You may have an unbelievable extra-wide panorama photo of LAX but that's not going to work for the magazine so try something else instead.

Make sure it's the right size and dpi

Simple logistics of the matter. Unless you image is minimum resolution of 300 DPI and 22cms high or wide it is not going to be of a high enough quality to run on the cover. 

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!) ...

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 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!