For the third year running, you have a chance to get your best image featured on the front cover of the world renowned Flight International magazine, by uploading your images to our AirSpace galleries.

Below is last year's winner - one of over 1,500 high quality entries we received for the 2008 festive issue:

Last year's winning image by Begemont

The best image from the four categories below will adorn the front cover of Flight International's end of year edition.

The winner will also receive a framed copy of that front cover and £100 (GBP).

The four categories this year are:

• Big Birds
The big beasts in aviation are featured in this gallery, encompassing airliners, cargo aircraft and tankers

• Sleek Jets
From nimble and speedy fighters to the more refined biz jets, only the sleek jets need apply

• Old Flyers
An affectionate hat tip to the rich tapestry of aviation gone by, this category is for the old classics

• General Stars
This category is for the GA leading lights and other general aviation images

Here are the rules ...

And here's a descrption of how you can add your image to AirSpace ...

Good luck!

These are great for grouping together Twitter accounts around the same subject.

And being the thoughtful bunch we are, we've set up a Flightglobal list which features all of the official FG twitter accounts.

These include our sector channels (such as Headlines, Defence, Airlines), our journalists (such as RunwayGirl, FlightBlogger and TheDEWLine) and other Flightglobal stuff (such as Jobs, Airline Business and StefanthePilot).

There are some great videos from last week's NBAA including a tour of the Bombardier Learjet 85's flightdeck and Honeywell's "Tube of Rock" demonstrating how passengers can enjoy HD films, use their iPod and play against their fellow passengers with Play Station games.

Defence editor Craig Hoyle posted a picture story about Pakistan's first of five Saab 2000-based airborne early warning and control aircraft. It has entered final system testing in Sweden, with the work having already demonstrated the capabilities of its integrated self-protection equipment.

FlightBlogger posted an amusing video of singing animals promoting Frontier Airlines that he guarantees will bring a smile to your face.

And the ANA Boeing 787, without engines, was paraded on the Everett flight line last week. Only the tail is painted leaving FlightBlogger wondering whether ANA is getting a new and/or special livery for its first 787? 

Flightglobal is giving you the exclusive chance to have your favourite aviation images featured in an exclusive 2010 calendar.

For the first time, we aim to highlight the best 12 images taken by you and rated by the AirSpace community, a truly unique opportunity for the amateur photographer and a great gift for aviation enthusiasts throughout the world.


To be in with a chance of winning this great prize, you must have uploaded your choice of images to a gallery on AirSpace by Monday 26 October.

Everyone who joins our AirSpace community has their own private gallery and an explanation of how to upload an image can be found here.

The winners will be chosen by a panel of judges from the Flightglobal team and will be selected from the top rated images on AirSpace as well as from AirSpace's image of the week competition, which is featured each week on page 3 of Flight International magazine.

Each selected photographer will win a £100 as well as a free copy of the calendar, with the calendars being on sale in the Flightglobal shop.

For those that miss out don't worry as we will be running our annual Flight International front cover competition straight after this competition ends.

Some of the Flightglobal team jetted off to Orlando at the weekend to bring you all the latest the latest news, videos, blogs, twitter updates and images from NBAA this week. Check the dedicated channel NBAA 09 for all the coverage.

 John Croft was suitably tickled by a psychedelic interlude while heading to make a connection at Detroit's Metropolitan Airport.

In a post on blog As the Cro(ft) Flies, he says: "I took the underground connector and discovered what I think might be Michigan's best kept secret -- a pyschedelic show that accompanies you for nearly a quarter of a mile as you ride the people-mover through the tunnel. I liked it so much I rode back and forth several times, and still made my connection."

See this great image of the Red Arrows, and while you marvel, why not consider uploading your best images to appear in the 2010 Flightglobal calendar by 26 October.

I would have liked to drive the news side a little harder, but like most of us these days I don't get to down tools on my day job (s) and concentrate on just the one thing.

I got lucky because the news did flow, as I noted in earlier blogs. That will mean traffic during the week should easily have gone past 1.4 million visits and could have nudged 1.5 million. Now that's not far off the Flightglobal record.

I won't claim any credit for that. It's simply a function of how broad and deep Flightglobal is becoming in terms of content. It's frankly big.

I've learnt a lot: how your team works (hard) and how the IT development team works (still a bit of a mystery I've got to admit). I've also seen a few of the cracks we need to fill to improve the site - but I am sure you are well, well aware of them already.

One of the biggest things for me about Flightglobal is understanding where to focus our efforts. Mike has got a pretty good idea I know, but my week at Flightglobal has shown me how tough that is to get a handle on.

Mike I'm glad it's your job rather than mine to get to grips with.

But after a week keeping your chair warm you know more than ever that I'll be keeping the Flightglobal faith.

Good bye but not good night - Mark

At least in the sense that I feel what it is Mike Targett, your favourite aviation web editor, feels when nothing is quite happening fast enough, nothing is quite working properly, your team is busting a gut to get a move on but being weighed down by the weight of "stuff" that simply needs doing all the time on Flightglobal. It's like swimming through mud.

Phew I've got that off my chest.

So what has been happening?

Well a lot has been around planning for how we will present our coverage of the ALTA Latin Airline Leaders Forum (next week) and then NBAA (the week after). That means preparing web landing pages to host all of our terrific stories, videos, blogs, Twitter feeds etc from these events.

Around that we've got journalists at the annual meeting of the Arab carriers, the introduction of Egyptair to the Star Alliance (those entail trips to Jeddah and Cairo for lucky Graham Dunn of Airline Business fame) and the European Regions Airline Association (Interlaken I recall).

A great news story today on Flightglobal was Max Kingsley-Jones hauling a nugget from his recent interview with Emirates airline chief Tim Clark on the carrier's thoughts on the 747-8 (no thanks says Tim) and an enhanced 777 (yes please says Tim).

One day to go - come back Mike all is forgiven!

In a couple of days we will put up a landing page full of Latin airline material plus the Airline Business Dailies that we will produce for the forum.

The half of the Flightglobal chair I occupied today was dominated by metal news. By that I mean stories that feature new aircraft metal:

* The continuation of Boeing's 747-8 delay news

* The roll out of Gulfstream's G250

* The first flight of Lufthansa's first Airbus A380.

I think the picture I found to illustrate Mike Targett's chair is from Big Brother. Pretty cool isn't it. Shame it isn't really the Flightglobal editor's chair - now there's a thought. 

You get say 40 pages to fill and when you filled them with good stuff you say job done, off to press it goes and you read the result.

Flightglobal is like having an infinite number of pages to produce, they are all instantly open to being updated and you never reach the deadline.

So where do you start editing a never ending conveyor belt?

After one of those scrums with the IT folk where I doubt I added much value I got down to a good old-fashioned news meeting.

That revealed that Niall O'Keeffe was preparing a story on the P&W GTF engine for the Chinese regional airliner. That made the lead slot on Flightglobal yesterday afternoon.

Another nice story was the context David Learmount put around the Day of Action European pilots were holding to highlight their concerns around flight time duty limitations. This is what Flightglobal journalists do so well.

Behind the basic news agenda Flightglobal has oceans of content that needs updating, moving around, highlighting etc etc. There are videos to edit and post, forums to monitor, blogs to write and a host of special features to present.

Some of the updates yesterday and today are:

* Mary Kirby and Jon Ostrower at the World Airline Entertainment Association - LIVE

* Flightglobal's new image shop is now OPEN FOR BUSINESS

* Visit the Airline Business blog and this special landing page for videos from the World Low Cost Airlines Congress last week in Barcelona

Hello All. I'm standing in for Flightglobal's Mike Targett this week as he takes a well-earned break (that's me on the right with the specs with Enrique Cueto the CEO of LAN at last year's Latin Airline Leaders Forum).

I will be the third "guest" editor of Flightglobal after my illustrious colleague Murdo Morrison, the editor of Flight International, and none other than Sir Richard Branson.

It's a busy week as I prepare for next week's ALTA Latin Airline Leaders Forum in Cartagena, Colombia.

We'll see how the week's news agenda unfolds, but today look out for our take on the action day that involves Europe's pilot unions and associations and we have some breaking news on the engine front.

Other features will be some advance stories for the NBAA business aviation show taking place from 19 October in Orlando and I've got to plug my team's excellent coverage of the World Low Cost Airlines Congress last week.

Plenty of video, Twitter and blog coverage in there for your viewing pleasure.

Wish me luck!

Voting so far has been fierce, with over 5,000 votes already received.

All the categories are still in the balance - the nominees leading each category have changed places several times already as the voting has rippled around the internet via Twitter, email and numerous company intranets.

So if you haven't already done so - get your votes in now.

Voting closes at Midnight on 4 October.

Vote now

See some great images of retro aircraft from AirSpace user Ace79 who went to the Vintage Aircraft Weekend at Paine Field Everett, WA, recently.

And why not add your views to the discussion on the accuracy of Thomson's inflight safety video. One user comments about the airline's marketing video: "You should only be seeing it on the flight after you've already bought your ticket and got on the aircraft - advertising in retrospect?"

See a vlog post on Mary Kirby's Runway Girl blog about the latest in inflight entertainment on a recent visit to Florida to see JetBlue subsidiary LiveTV.

A US Marine Corps pilot suggests in an issue of Joint Forces Quarterly that the age of stealth domination in airpower is over according to the DEW Line blog.

The pilot says the US military and industry needs to launch a crash technology programme. "If anything, the technology could be leveraged to understand the techniques potential adversaries could use to shoot down our stealth aircraft".

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

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. 

If not, it's not too late to win yourself a Stefan-adorned t-shirt.

So far a few of Stefan's followers have guessed correctly Stefan's whereabouts and which events he's been busy attending over the last couple of weeks.

He's gearing up to jet off somewhere new later in the week. Can you out-fox Stefan's cryptic clues?

There's a discussion on AirSpace about acceptable behaviour on an aircraft and how to deal with unruly passengers following news of a court case involving a drunken socialite's racy antics onboard a Kingfisher Airlines flight.

See the pictures on a Runway Girl blog post about IFE handsets. She says: "The picture you see is not the final look of the touch screen handset that will be flying next year. But it gives you a pretty good idea of what's coming down the pike." 

 Stefan http://www.twitter.com/stefanthepilot Forum discussion  

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

He remains on his feet despite the jet blast. Some say the aircraft's a Mirage, others say a Harrier, and a Super Hornet is another suggestion. Let us know your thoughts.

A Handley Page Victor bomber aptly nicknamed "Teasin' Tina" gave shocked onlookers more than they bargained for when it accidently took off during the Cold War Jets day at Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome.

The Cold War bomber apparently took off as the co-pilot (who was an engineer and not a pilot, cue the "engineers can never be pilots" jokes) accidently hit the throttle when the aircraft was meant to just taxi down the runway for a photo shoot. See footage of the takeoff.

The Flightglobal Image Store launched last week features thousands of historical and modern images, including our extensive technical cutaway drawings with options for potential shoppers to purchase images in their preferred format and style, whether it's on canvas, framed or even as a jigsaw.

Don't forget to follow Stefan on Twitter... He's going to be busy over the next few months. Why not guess where he is from the clues he tweets on his travels. Use the hash tag #wheresstefan and tell him which event he's at and in which city and you could win yourself a limited edition Stefan t-shirt.

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