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We've just launched an iPhone and iPad app for visitors attending this year's Dubai Air Show.

It's designed to help visitors get around the show, keep up to date with announcements and provide helpful show and local information.

The app is free and available from the iTunes store.

There are some really nice features in the app:

• Hall maps: The maps of the different halls allow users to tap on individual stands and chalets to bring up exhibitor details
  
• Static map: The static map will be updated as soon as the final static plan is released (likely to be a couple of days before the show starts). Tapping on individual aircraft will bring up details specific to that aircraft.
  
• Exhibitors listings: Fully searchable and features tap thrus to the exhibitor's chalet or stand position on the maps
  
• Flying times: We'll update the daily flying display schedule each morning of the show as we receive the final details
  
• Show news: All the latest stories will be piped into the app in full text with photos (where present)
  
• Local and show information: There's a bunch of useful information relating to taxis, show opening times, restaurant suggestions and nightlife
  

The app works offline (once you've installed it for the first time), but obviously to receive the latest news and flying display times, you'll need to restart the app when connected to wifi or 3G (with data roaming switched on).

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.

BoeingAirplanes has been crowned the Paris Power Tweeter for this year's Paris Air Show.

The award recognises the most active, influential and engaged social media proponent from the show's exhibitors.



BoeingAirplanes posted a total of 94 tweets during the first four days of the show (19-22 June) and received an impressive 469 retweets of their Paris announcements.

It helped swell their followers by over 650 up to a total of 28,745.



The Award was calculated by measuring the number of tweets from each twitter account using the Paris Air Show hashtag #pas11, the number of retweets by the respective followers, and the growth in those following the account.

Twitter powerhouse and Flightglobal journalist Jon Ostrower said of Boeing's achievement: "The award is recognition for Boeing's commitment to bringing together those who bring aerospace to life and those who follow with passion and enthusiasm around the world."

Notable mentions in the Power Tweeter award go to Airbus - generated the highest percentage of retweets per tweet, GEAviation - who clocked up an impressive 177 #pas11 tweets, and CFM_Engines, who pulled in a massive 4,284 new followers mainly through their innovative sponsorship of the #pas11 hashtag.

This year's Paris Air Show has seen an unprecedented amount of social media activity, with many exhibitors embracing their customers through the new medium.

twitter profile	number of #pas11 tweets	number of retweets	growth in followers	Score
BoeingAirplanes	94	469	651	44737
Airbus	53	380	877	21017
GEAviation	177	113	204	20205
CFM_engines	63	39	4284	6741
Bombardier_Aero	70	70	92	4992
Boeing	48	95	360	4920
EADSatLeBourget	69	19	52	1363
raytheoncompany	33	17	77	638
snecma	72	1	2	74

Flightglobal has been monitoring the use of the #pas11 tag in the run up to the show and the statistics show over 15,000 tweets have covered the show since 6 June 2011.

Top tweeters over all (including the media and general public) are: OhMyJet (303 tweets), Flightglobal (223 tweets), jetcitystar (223 tweets), DailyAviation (190 tweets), and winglets747 (189 tweets)

*stats provided by Twitter.com, Twittercounter.com, and Twapperkeeper.com

See Paris your way by deciding on the content that you want to see from this year's air show.

Flightglobal is proud to offer you the exclusive opportunity to customise your very own Paris air show page, filling it with your favourite content from this year's extravaganza.

This free MyParis service allows you to:

• Create a personalised Paris web page that only you can access
• Decide the show coverage you want to see, including customised videos, social media, images and much more. 
• Configure the industry sector that most appeals to you or receive it all.

Creating your unique view is free, quick and easy. All you have to do is select the type of show coverage you want to see and we will create your unique page and send you your personalised link when the coverage starts.

You don't have long to wait. Sign up now and see Paris your way.

See all the thrilling action from this year's Paris air show streamed directly to you through Flightglobal. Filmed in glorious high-definition using FLIR Systems Star SAFIRE® HD sensor, we will make sure you're right in the thick of the action at the aviation event of the year.

Stay informed about the latest news and flying display information on our special flying page, so you can make sure you don't miss a thing from 12pm Monday 20th through Thursday 23rd at this year's show.

Highlights include:

• Experience the latest image technology in action - FLIR will capture full-spectrum, infra-red HD images via a FLIR Systems Star SAFIRE® HD sensor, transmitting in real time back to the Flightglobal Media Lounge at the heart of the show. 

• Get involved - 
You can interact live with show presenters through Twitter and Facebook - a great way to take part and to share your thoughts and views on the action
• Catch up - Visit our Paris page for highlights of the previous day's flying, plus full coverage of the stunning aerial displays. You can also revisit highlights from last year at Farnborough too.
  

To get you excited about this exclusive service, here's some highlights from last year's Farnborough air show:

See Paris your way with MyParis

Flightglobal is proud to offer you the exclusive opportunity to customise your very own Paris air show page , filling it with your favourite content from this year's extravaganza. Sign up now  and see Paris your way

Are you a social media player? Flightglobal are holding a tweet up to recognise the most influential and active social media players during this year's Paris Air Show (19-23 June 2011).

In an extension of the Flightglobal Aviation Web Awards (aka The Webbies) - which recognises digital innovation and excellence - Flightglobal will be presenting an award to the premier Paris Air Show Power Tweeter.

The Paris Power Tweeter Award will be presented to the Paris Air Show exhibitor who has been the most active, most influential and the most successful in engaging their audience on Twitter throughout the duration of the show.

The Flightglobal judges will be monitoring the number of tweets utilizing the #PAS11, the number of retweets and the growth in followers. We will be monitoring potential Paris Power Tweeters via suite of Twitter usage analysis tools, including:

• The Archivist ( http://archivist.visitmix.com)
• Summarizr ( http://summarizr.labs.eduserv.org.uk)
• Twitter Counter ( http://twittercounter.com)
  

Active social media visitors to the show are welcome to attend the Tweet Up to be part of the award ceremony, participate in Flightglobal Chalet hospitality during the daily flying display, and get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the Flightglobal/FLIR infrared live streaming while the team are on air.

Paris Power Tweeter details:

• Any exhibitors using the #PAS11 tag on twitter during the Paris Air Show are eligible for inclusion
• Attendance of The Paris Power Tweeter Tweet Up is open to all active social media show visitors
• Members of the media are not eligible to win the Paris Power Tweeter Award
• The Paris Power Tweeter Tweet Up will be at 3pm 23 June 2011 in the Flightglobal  Media Hub (Chalet D64)

The Paris Air Show is nearly here and to coincide with the fun that is to be had at the show, Flightglobal has devised a "create-your-own-unique-Paris-air-show" web page.

Using the MyParis service, you can elect to see Paris your way by deciding on the content that you want to see, filling it with your favourite content. Configure the industry sector that most appeals to you or receive it all. Sign up now.

Read RunwayGirl's blog post where she gives US Airways a ticking off for a number of crimes to passengers including poor IFE and inadequate seat pitch, for which "all the mood lighting in the world isn't going to make any better".

At 5ft 11", she admitted in an earlier post that she's tall for a woman, and you can see how uncomfortable she was from the picture she posted. 

She goes on to say that the airline is "asking for trouble, especially now that travellers are Facebooking and Tweeting every little thing they do/see/feel".

See a great image from BAE Systems of the 100th Eurofighter Typhoon which is the 35th to be delivered to the RAF and compare our coverage of the Grimsvotn ash cloud  to last year's eruption of Eyjafjallajökull to see what the industry has learned.

Have a browse in the Flightglobal Shop and let us know if there's anything that we currently don't stock that you'd like to see.

In the meantime, you can purchase the first Flightglobal forecast report, the Fleet Forecast, which provides an independent view of fleet development within the world's main regions to seat category and model level.

There's also the Flightglobal Image Store where you can buy a huge range of images as prints, including the newest gallery of iconic front cover images as well as cutaway posters.

Several members of the Flightglobal team flocked to cover the AUVSI show in Denver, Colorado and John Croft added some great behind the scenes images of the halls being set up before the show began.

A Spitfire and a Hurricane provided the soundtrack to an actor reading the famous speech by the then prime minister Winston Churchill on 20 August to commemorate 70 years since the Battle of Britain and the image of the two iconic aircraft graced the Image of the Day blog.

FlightBlogger charts the flight testing progress of ZA002, the second Boeing 787 test aircraft, as it flies up the coast of Canada at 36,000ft bound for the North Pole to spend a day evaluating a myriad of navigation systems. It flew for more than 14 hours, breaking the record held by ZA004 at 12h 30min.

See a fun "rugby" themed safety video by Air New Zealand which might just get passengers (or members of the team) to pay attention to the sometimes dry instructions before a flight.

Mary Kirby on Runway Girl writes about an alternative seating arrangement: "Thromby Air, a faux carrier that charges passengers by the pound (of flesh) has an innovative new idea for high-density seating. Forget about Ryanair's O'Leary and his stand-up seating proposal. Why not try Tetris instead?" she writes, and adds an interesting illustration to the post.

Flightglobal prides itself on providing the most comprehensive aviation coverage in the world, and as another Farnborough Air Show becomes a distant memory, I hope you don't mind us sharing with you what the biggest air show of the year meant for us.

We are happy to report that the Farnborough Air Show was another roaring success, with
Flightglobal breaking through the two million page view barrier for the first time in a single week, with over half a million visits and over 330,000 unique visitors coming to Flightglobal during the week of the show. This is a rise of 53% versus the previous Farnborough in 2008 and 12% rise on Paris 2009.

After pioneering the integrated media coverage approach at last year's Paris Air Show a year ago, we once again opened our doors to interested visitors while producing an array of content live at the show for Flightglobal, Flight International magazine, Flight Daily News and our new interactive magazine iFlight.

Some of the other highlights included:

• Our brand new Farnborough design led show page had nearly 250,000 page views and nearly 150,000 visits
• The flying display live streaming (in association with FLIR systems) had 71,000 page views and 45,000 visits
• Our 3 issues of exclusive iFlight magazines have been opened over 14,000 times
• We produced over 400 Farnborough articles during the week which had nearly 350,000 page views on their own, over 35 videos produced at the show, 121 blog posts from our range of bloggers and countless tweets from our Twitterati.
  

Our content also went beyond the aviation market with two of our videos making the daily most viewed chart on YouTube, being one of the first to show the Boeing 787 arrive and also provide a unique infrared look at the F-22 flying display, being viewed over 43,000 and 51,000 respectively.

All we can say now is roll on Paris 2011!

One of my biggest gripes about the web is that all too often style gets sacrificed in favour of utility.

"Usability" and "Search Engine Optimisation" always seem to out muscle "coolness" and "panache" in the battle for on-page real estate.

With our Farnborough Air Show 2010 coverage, we're attempting to buck the trend.

Our Head of Design and Production, Alexis Rendell, came up with some awesome visuals trying to put magazine design standards onto our web pages, complete with a "front cover" style page given over completely to beautiful images from this year's biggest air show.

We've got nine pages lovingly (and painstakingly) crafted from 1s and 0s, showcasing everything Farnborough has to offer. The aim is to provide an online air show experience like never before:

Front Cover
News
Video
Blogs
Twitter
Images
iFlight
Static
Flying

I'll talk through a couple, but then leave you to explore the rest in your own time:

The Front Cover


As mentioned above, the design brief was to bring a magazine-esque front cover to the show pages. We've achieved this with a page dedicated to the best images each day at the show generates.

We're pouring over the 1000s of images that come into us each morning for the next fortnight, and cherry-picking six of very best, most impactful shots to front the show each day.

It's an indulgent use of a webpage, but we were so wowed by the original designs that we had to make it happen.

News


On the news page we've reverted to a stylish black background with white text. Fans of Tweetdeck will get our reference point for that.

Listening to feedback, we've included sector-specific news headlines on the news page this year - Air Transport, Biz Av, Defence and Aerospace.

We also know that you love your pictures so there's a thumbnail with each lead story to liven up the page.

iFlight


This is a much-improved way to showcase our deliciously cool iFlight Interactive Magazine.

If you've not seen an issue yet, then make sure you get on the end of the first Farnborough issue (19th July). They really are a bridge between magazine and website, brimming with images, videos, interviews and interactive graphics.

This page currently shows some greyed-out front covers, but those will be replaced with the actually front covers as we publish them. However you can get an idea of what's coming from the teaser text. If you want an email reminder you can sign up here ...

The other pages are equally glorious but best experienced first hand.

Like many aerospace companies, we like to use the major air shows as a launch page for new products and services.

These pages will form a template for future show coverage on Flightglobal, but we welcome any feedback below if you'd like to see any changes implemented.