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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 25-31 August 2009

Be honest, who really takes notice of those safety demonstrations before takeoff?

Charter operator Thomson Airways knows this and has come up with a way to get passengers to sit up and pay attention by using children as cabin crew giving the instructions, which is all very heart-warming and actually very effective.

Check out Kieran Daly's blog post pointing to Boston Globe's 40 "fabulous" aviation pictures.

It's a spectacular selection, including an impressive shot of a hot-air balloon above the clouds in Germany and a helicopter, with tourists onboard, in front of Angel Falls at Canaima National Park.

Read about the Su-27 fighter jet that disappeared behind trees at Poland's Radom air show recently and burst into flames killing both pilots and view a newsclip of its aerial display.

Twitter user, RAFairman uploaded an image showing part of an aircraft and challenged followers to guess its type.

Our very own Stefan the Pilot was the winner guessing correctly that the image was of a Westland Wessex helicopter.

See more of the Wessex, once described by Flight International as the "world's largest VTOL aircraft".

Follow Stefan on Twitter... He's going to be busy over the next few months.

Westland Wessex http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1969/1969%20-%200819.html?search=westland%20wessex

See Stefan the Pilot's images in his own gallery 

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

Obviously Flightglobal will be all over this year's Paris Air Show like a rash, but we're also doing a bunch of stuff in preparation for the 100th year of the show.

A couple of the latest gems to go live include some cool Paris Air Show accounts from the Flight 100 Year Archive:

Paris Air Show through the ages

• 1908 - First Paris Aero Salon - part of Automobile show
• 1909 - First stand alone Paris Aero Salon at Le Grand Palais
• 1910 - Paris Aero Salon
• 1919 - Show restarts after First World War
• 1927 - Charles Lindbergh lands at Le Bourget
• 1930 - 12th anniversary Paris Aero Show aircraft "lack original design"
• 1936 - 15th anniversary - Bristol Blenheim represents Britain
• 1949 - Flying demonstrations held at Orly
• 1953 - 20th anniversary - Show relocates from Grand Palais to Le Bourget
• 1953 - First flying displays
• 1957 - 22nd anniversary
• 1961 - Le Bourget Marathon flying display from morning to night
• 1961 - Salon Extraordinaire
• 1967 - Concorde mock-up
• 1969 - Diamond Jubilee anniversary
• 1969 - the Big Exhibit
• 1969 - Boeing 747 makes an appearance
• 1969 - Concorde flies in
• 1971 - Full scale mock up of A300
• 1971 - Paris - 29th anniversary
• 1973 - Paris - show review
• 1973 - European Airbus
• 1983 - Space shuttle Enterprise carried by Boeing 747 Transporter
• 1989 - Antonov 225 carries Space Shuttle Buran
• 1989 - Sukhoi Su-27 performs aerial display
• 1991 - F-117 makes appearance
• 1993 - Evidence of Russian- and Eastern European-built airframes sporting Western avionics and engines
• 1995 - Dash 8 stretch launched
• 1995 - Boeing launches 777
• 1995 - Northrop Grumman B-2 stealth bomber

Elsewhere we're in the process of compiling the best image collection of historical Paris Air Shows on the web:

The gallery is 100+ images strong at the moment and growing as fast as we can scan the old photos in!

But we also need your help to identify and tag the images ...

Our dedicate (and slow!) march towards documenting the highlights from our 100 year history continues.

It's slow going as the relevant coverage (in the archive) of each specific event has to be individually researched. The trick is to ensure that our hand-picked links are to the most appropriate original content, whether it be a feature or just a simple reference, depending on the event itself.

For example, when highlighting the first ever Paris Aero Salon in December 1908, we opted to link to a comprehensive review of the event as this gives the reader a more rounded sense of the event. If however we're linking to a breaking news event, such as the demise of the Red Baron, then the first report of the event is the most appropriate as it carries a greater sense of immediacy for the reader.

As we go through the archive topic by topic and year by year we catalogue these links and when there's enough around a certain topic we put them together, while continuing to add to those already live with more links as we log them.

The latest topic collection is Innovation, and includes such goodies as the use of cockpit glass, how men fly, and the birth of the TriStar.

If you'd like to add to any of our topics or suggest your own then let our Content Editor - Babs - know ... .

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.

This is one of the pages we found in our 210k PDF historical magazine archive which we got a company (which will remain nameless) to scan in for us.

The person on this shift obviously struggled with the steep learning curve of "turn page, let go of page, scan page" work cycle.

We've got an on-going project to scan in, host and make accessible on AirSpace some of the thousands of unique images from the Flight Archive.

It's a lengthy and fiddly business but we've made our first step forward in a while with the release of several hundred fascinating black and white historical photos for various periods in the previous century.

In the coming months we hope to turn these initial hundreds into thousands, but I'll keep you posted.

The selection of images are range from pre and post 1914, to air races and historical prototypes. The full list is below:

• Historical Pre 1914
• Historical 1930s Civil
• Historical 1930s Military
• Historical 1939-1945
• Historical Post War
• Historical Air Races
• Historical Experimental and Prototypes

We'll be working through these images to tag them (in order to improve their findability) but I'd like to encourage knowledgable users to help us classify these images by posting tags and descriptions under indivdual photos if possible.

That will help speed up the process and hopefully allow us to link the images to the corresponding pages of Flight magazine from our 100 year Archive.

Today is Remembrance Day in the UK, a day traditionally set aside to consider those who served and died in the Armed Services fighting to protect their country.

Nowhere is this debt to these men and women better illustrated than the Flight historic archives.

Remembrance Day is on the closest Sunday to 11th November - the day the Great War ended 90 years ago back in 1918.

The front cover of Flight magazine from 14th November 1918 consists solely of a moving and heartfelt message from King George V to the Royal Air Force thanking them fore their contribution to the victory.

At the time Flight itself was playing a vital role in recording and reporting on the ground-breaking way of waging war that was aerial combat. Elsewhere in that issue Sir Auckland Geddes, Minister of National Services is quoted as saying "Newspapers are an essential part of our war organisation".

This is followed by a Comment piece from the Editor and Founder Stanley Spooner, and although our thoughts of that day are instinctively filled with sadness and pride, his emotions upon hearing the news that peace has come are more upbeat with the taste of victory:

Of course Remembrance Day reflects more than just the achievements of the service men and women of the First World War.

Elsewhere in the Archives there are moving and emotional pieces focussing on losses and victories from World War II and other armed conflicts.

From all of those entries, articles and features the victory edition of Flight from May 1945 is one of obvious significance. In it one simple but stark set of figures jumped out at me from a table totalling the numbers of lost aircraft.

As always a minute's silence will be held today at 11:11am

As the historic Berlin-Tempelhof Airport closes its doors today(Friday 31st Oct) it's only right to dip into the Flight Archives and pick out a few highlights from its rich history.

The early years saw Templehof used as trialling grounds for such prototype aircraft as the Hoffmann, Zipfel's Voisin Aeroplane, and even Orville Wright who made a "spectacular flight before the Kaiser" in a visit in 1909.

The massive Tempelhof terminal building as we know today was built during the Second World War during which the airport played an important role for the Nazis.

In 1949 the airport was thown into the global spot light as it played the leading role in The Berlin Airlift.

For those of you who wish to reminisce further there's a great image gallery on the Berlin Airport website ...

There's always something good to find in the 100 year Archive and today is no exception:

50 years ago today saw the first transatlantic passenger jet flight take place.

The landmark achievment was actually the culmination of a frantic race between BOAC and PAA to be the airline to make the history books.

In the end it was BOAC and the Comet 4 that took the honours.

Here's Flight's interesting account of the events as they happened ...