Welcome to our relaunched blog - here are some other good aviation blogs

This is my first attempt at posting using our new Movable Type blogging platform. Hope you agree it looks a whole lot better than what we had before.

I thought I'd start off by linking to the best of the aviation sites that I personally follow. I'm pretty discerning and frankly there are only a few that I've found to be really useful. I'd be delighted to hear about any others though.

First, the two heavyweight US air transport sites: Addison Schonland at IAG, and Scott Hamilton at Leeham. Addison posts more frequently - one of the rare guys who more or less always posts daily, and Scott is a long-time AT observer who posts less frequently, but trades quantity for quality.

There's Boeing marketing chief Randy Baseler of course, who I think has been easing up on posts too (might be wrong, but feels that way), but is obviously important to pay attention to. Still nothing from Airbus sadly.

I also quite like Flight Level 390 when I've got time for something a bit more mellow, occasionally Cockpit Conversation, and sometimes Aviation Views (more views, less news please).

The Aviatrix Logbook is one of the more readable pilot blogs but, even though my work only touches on the fringe of business aviation just now, I'm a big fan of Sulako's Blog. Unlocking writing talent like that is one of the blogosphere's great achievements.

Land and Hold Short is great on the lighter end of aviation in what can be a challenging part of the world, and Eclipse Aviation Critic very intelligently does exactly what it says on the tin.

Blogging at FL250 is great stuff for wanabee pilots, although I could do without the travelogue stuff.

There are a couple of areas that I like to keep in touch with, but don't need to examine in detail for my job - so for defence I dip into the intriguing Naval Open Source Intelligence, which is mostly second-hand news and no views, but that's fine for me. And for India - where it's damn hard to keep up with events these days - I always check Touch Base with Indian A&D Industry.

Finally, because of my job I read media stuff of course - mostly my boss Jim Muttram's exemplary blog Inflection Point, and The Editors Weblog. There are a zillion others, but I've got a day job!

And finally, finally - if you are interested in what other media think about what we're doing here in our company then today we got some heavyweight coverage from The Guardian. Tomorrow our parent company Reed Elsevier releases its 2006 financials - so we'll get a little indication as to whether we're doing the right sort of thing. I suppose blogs contribute about one-zillionth of our revenues but, hey, we've got to start somewhere.