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Our iFlight interactive magazines were a centrepiece of our Paris Air Show coverage. Anchored by Mary Kirby, AKA Runway Girl, each told the big stories in punchy video presentations.

In Day 1's issue, FlightBlogger gave a guide to the Boeing 747-8i and Craig Hoyle briefed on the Eurofighter Typhoon's role in the Libyan conflict.

The Day 2 issue led on the Dassault Rafale's display and had Dominic Perry's take on the Eurocopter X3, plus a Solar Impulse piece from Kerry Reals, who authors our blog The Green Wing.

And Day 3 brought a Bombardier CRJ1000 cutaway and Ghim-Lay Yeo's tour of the Mitsubishi Regional Jet cabin, plus a Russian aircraft focus.

Also on offer across the issues were news round-ups, galleries, a NATO AGS cutaway and a spotter's quiz.

We also toured inside the Korean AIr A380, the aircraft that saved the day when it stepped in to perform aerial displays in place of the Airbus A380 flight test aircraft, MSN 004 which suffered a damaged wingtip following an incident in which it "touched a structure" during ground manoeuvres at the Le Bourget Airport.

You can still check out all the coverage from last week's Paris Air Show on our dedicated page including images, video, twitter, news and blogs.

2010 was a year which saw Flightglobal gear up its mobile offering, grow its strong offering on the Social Web and introduce Pro - a premium service offering and expert level of news and data.

2011 - will be a year building upon those foundations.

Going social

As digital social interaction gains ubiquity across the planet, we'll be plugging all activity into the Social Web.

This means you'll be able to move neatly between your favourite Flightglobal content - news, blogs, images etc ... - and your favourite social services - Twitter, Facebook, Youtube etc ... with greater ease than before.

Going Pro

Flightglobal will continue to launch new professional services this year designed to facilitate professional decision-making within the industry.

These Pro services will be integrated throughout Flightglobal as well as accessible via a personalized dashboard.

Going mobile

The lightning-fast growth of the smart phone and tablet market means that more and more of our million-strong audience want us to develop apps, updates and feeds to stay in touch with the industry while out and about.

We'll be continuing to develop in this space in order to keep pace with demand.

Going all show business

Our industry-leading event coverage has transformed the way people have been staying in touch with air show and exhibition news.

In 2011, we'll be at more shows than ever, with more reporters producing more content, publishing more iFlight magazines and more mobile updates, and producing an unrivalled digital experience for anyone who's serious about aviation ... you get the idea.

Happy New Year.

Michael Targett

The Flightglobal team decamped to Geneva's Palexpo to report on EBACE for the iFDN, Flight Evening News and the summing up in the show report in this issue.

The team worked tirelessly to bring you news, blog posts from FlightBlogger, Learmount and As the Cro(ft) Flies, images, and videos of interviews with the movers and shakers of the business aviation community.

You can find all this throughout the pages of the interactive magazine and our dedicated EBACE 2010 page. And see what was being said on twitter by following the show's hashtag.

Eurocopter joined forces with automotive and design powerhouse Mercedes Benz to launch an interior for its entrepreneurial EC145 customers who work hard and play hard.

And then there's the Design Q and BAE Systems partnership that unveiled striking interior concepts including one where the cargo door opens to reveal an air deck described as the "ultimate living space".

Runway Girl says in a post that Airbus is making great strides on its A350 XWB catalogue and suggests checking out C&D Zodiac's design for the lavs. "This certifiable "laviator" - a person who takes photos inside aircraft lavs - is particularly jazzed about the pics", she says.

The A380 celebrated its 5th birthday since its first flight.

 

We collated all our content, so why not revisit articles Flight International wrote including one about Airbus and Boeing pursuing different strategies to meet air travel demand and whether Airbus can produce an A380 freighter. See, also, a video of the giant making its first flight.

The Flightglobal team are all over EBACE in Geneva bringing you content for Flightglobal, the interactive magazine and next week's Flight International show report. Take a look and click on the interactive magazine's pages to explore images, graphics and videos and don't forget to check out all the news, video, blogs, Twitter updates from the show on the site.

Download our cutaway poster of Boeing's P-8 Poseidon with an adjoining technical description. It is the first detailed look under the skin at the aircraft's various modifications to the ubiquitous 737 Next Generation design.

See an animation illustrating the revival of air traffic across Europe following the closure of airspace during the Icelandic volcanic ash crisis. Transport mapping specialist ITO has compiled the sequence of images, with the aid of real-time flight-monitoring site Flightradar24 which draws data from a network of amateur tracking stations.

Hot off the (virtual) press today is our first ever Interactive Flight Daily News magazine.

This is a digital-only magazine produced by the Flightglobal team out at this week's Singapore Air Show.

A couple Q&A bits for you:

What's Flight Daily News?

Flight Daily News is a daily magazine produced live at major air shows and industry events throughout the year. It's handed out free to show visitors as they arrive at the event and the idea is to be as up to date with current happenings as possible.

To that aim we sometimes produce Flight Evening News - tagline "today's news today" - which is handed out to show visitors as they leave at the end of the day.

What's a digital magazine?

In its basic form a digital magazine can be just an online pdf version of a physical paper mag. However the digital environment does open up the possibilities of enriching the reader's experience through interactive elements on page.

For example, videos, moving graphics, active hyperlinks, all singing all dancing adverts, that kind of stuff ...

What's in today's copy of iFDN?

Now this is the cool part. Our Interactive Flight Daily News is a purpose-built digital publication - not just a flat online pdf.

We've put the interactive potential at the heart of this new format and as such got tonnes of videos and images to accompany Day 1's top stories.

These include:

• A330F - Airbus give us a first look inside the new freighter
• 787 update - Boeing's Randy Tinseth gives an encouraging message following early progress from the 787 flight test programme
• Highlights of the displays - including the A-10 "warthog" and the flaming F-111
• But there's loads more - 24 pages worth to be exact.

How does it differ from the show coverage on Flightglobal's Singapore page?

Well, the important thing to remember is that they're doing difference things but with the same content - in the same way that websites and magazines do different things.

Flightglobal's Singapore webpage is a terrific hub for everything that's occurring at the show and all the content, stories and multimedia produced by our team out there.

iFDN is topical and provides a snap shot of Day 1 at the show, and from that you can get a feeling for the tone and atmosphere of the business environment. It also offers a richer experience for the reader in a way that the website cannot.

 

www.flightglobal.com/singapore webpage

A double page spread from iFDN 

The design interface on Flightglobal must by its very purpose accommodate other types of content and usage. The design of iFDN is much more impactful as it can truly focus on doing the one job it has been created for.

And let's not forget it's free! A quality magazine full of stories and videos that professional journalists and designers have worked through the night to deliver ... for FREE!

You lucky people!

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.