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This year's ILA air show is for the first time based at the Berlin ExpoCenter Airport. 

The focus in the build up to the show however was this particular showground, but rather something positioned directly next door.

Officials reviewing the readiness of Berlin's brand new Brandenburg Airport concluded recently that too much work on the operation needed to be revised, and consequently pushed back the opening date to 27 October 2013.

Despite this delay, we've been able to take a look inside the airport and our intrepid reporter Colin Miller created a gallery of some of the highlights.

For more news and views from this year's ILA air show check out our dedicated ILA Berlin show page.

This extraordinary image from Gaz West took the winning prize in the second annual Eurofighter Amateur Photography Competition.

Amateur photographers from across the globe submitted their best images for consideration, and entries came from as places as diverse as Malaysia, India, Slovenia, Turkey and Bulgaria. This striking winning image will be on the front cover of the 2013 Eurofighter Calendar.

I was honored to be part of the judging panel, which included Theodor Benien, Head of Communications at Eurofighter GmbH, renowned Eurofighter Typhoon photographer Geoffrey Lee from Planefocus, last year's competition runner up Alvaro Munoz-Aycuens, Andreas Westphal from Images-Art-Design and Eurofighter media relations representatives Kathryn Holm and Martina Schmidmeir.


Remember to keep keep a look out on Flightglobal for the return of our Front Cover Competition which will be launched shortly.

Airbus chief salesman John Leahy is known for his wit and goading, and day two of the Paris air show did not disappoint.

The company's second order announcement press conference was delayed when the anonymous airline customer was involved in a minor road incident, we were told. Although they were fine, they would be a bit late navigating the chalet line. Shortly thereafter an Airbus spokesman told us the customer was going to be too late. "So we'll have to delay the Garud--oh sh..." the spokesman said, realising he had given away Garuda Indonesia as the customer.

Quick on his feet, Leahy asked, "Oh you mean the Garuda order for 25 A320s?" He thus turned the situation comical and avoided speculation, even showing the press audience the decorative poster contracts Airbus had drawn up for the signing.

The third order press conference, for jetBlue's signing of A320 and A321s, featured another slip-up when Airbus sent distributed a press release saying the manufacturer was studying whether to offer its A320 Sharklet as a retrofit, despite Leahy's comments Airbus would definitely offer it. Quizzed on the contradiction, Leahy proclaimed, "We did a sloppy press release." He then said of the press release's writer, "they should get a job working for Bombardier."

The jetBlue presser soon after concluded, but not before a spokesman told us he didn't need to dust off his resume.