But what is it all about? Who is Stefan? What's he doing in Cancun? What's he type rated on? Is his icy cool demenour natural or has he had plastic surgery?

All will be revealed before long no doubt.

Take a look at Mary Kirby's blog post on Finnair's future fleet come the year 2093. There's a great concept image of an aircraft the looks like a very sharp paper aircraft. We've added these images to our Future Concepts gallery on AirSpace.

Flight Daily News went to Dubai last week to cover the MEBA 2008 show. Read our pdf pages on the three days of news including Royal Jet defying the market downturn and how the UAE faces a people challenge as the human resource base diminishes despite industry expansion.

Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary hosted a press conference last week to launch THAT calendar and defend the use of gratuitous images for the charity angle. Our own community editor Stuart Clarke filmed the man in a fetching swimsuit and pulling silly faces. Most likely the only thing he did pull that morning.

See a video of a cow being knocked over by an incoming biplane. Flightglobal would advise animal lovers not to watch this one.

FlightBlogger says that twin 787s are undergoing final assembly with red painted rudders. Dreamliners Three and Four are destined for Northwest but he wonders whether Delta Northwest's Boeing 787s will be painted first in Northwest or Delta colours? He says: "I would imagine that Delta doesn't love the idea of having to pay for repainting of two new aircraft," so a decision ought to be made quite soon.

At the heart of these new journalistic rules is the user/audience/reader.

It is how today's audience is choosing to access information that is largely steering how the journalist works to provide it.

There's a great new YouTube clip (in the extended entry of this post) of a drunk journalist from Birmingham covering the Obama trail that encapsulates this transition between the old and new approaches.

Glossing over the most amusing bit of clip - the admission of plagiarising news.bbc.co.uk stories - 1m30secs into this video Mr Adam Smith aka Steve Zacharanda drunkenly sums up the whole old/new journalism divide that talented journos are working to overcome. Or as an esteemed colleague of mine aptly puts it: "I think it's the divide between good and crap journalism (and journalists)." 

Here's the bit I mean in transcript:

Drunk hack: "There's 100,000 people in Birmingham that are going to be reading this and it's their version of events in America as I see it."

(Don't they have TVs in Birmingham then?)

Camera boy: "So tomorrow it will be online?"

(Instinctively sensing the YouTubery potential ...)

Drunk hack: "NO! It's not going to be online! It's going to be printed in papers. I'm a proper news journalist ..."

(Yeah, whatever, Cut-and-Paste Boy ...)

The obvious irony is that without BBC's progressive approach to online news reporting he wouldn't have anything to cut and paste for his newspaper article.

His picks are:

• Cutaways
• 100 Years of Flight Archive
• Incident Watch
• Commercial Aircraft Directory
• Videos

Regular readers of this Blog should be aware of most of this stuff but in case some of this great content is slipping by unnoticed I'll join Jon in selecting my choices for 5 cool things on Flightglobal that you might not know about:

Week on the Web podcast - it's an audio version of the regular Week on the Web feature which appears here and in the magazine. You can subscribe via iTunes or on AirSpace

AirSpace image competitions - as well as the big front cover one that's running at the moment, there are regular weekly image-based competitions over on AirSpace. They include: caption competition and spaceflight image of the week

Dynamic aircraft profiles - our growing porfolio of aircraft profiles dynamically bring the best and latest information on any given aircraft together in one place 

Email newsletters - why go through the rigmoral of browsing to find out the news when stuff that's relevant to you can be delivered straight to your inbox

Flightglobal on the web - if you love flightglobal and want to embed it into some of your other web activity you can do so in various ways. This page showcases some of our other web activity

The now infamous Ryanair girls have once again stripped off in the name of publicity charity.

This year's launch was an unhappy coincidence of timing with a Ryanair 737 landing heavy and overrunning in Rome following bird strike, but never ones to be dismayed Ryanair ploughed on, persuading a couple of the girls to shrug off their uniforms and brave the chilly Dublin weather to help get the media in the mood.

More images from the launch and the Ryanair calendar are on AirSpace ...

The proceeds are going to the Dublin Simon Community which provides services for the homeless in Dublin.

The calendar is available to buy here ...

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

So we feel we're in a position to help celebrate and acknowledge the very best and brightest aviation websites and online activities.

That's why we're launching the Flightglobal Webbies -The Aviation Web Awards.

We're looking for established industry leaders and striving newcomers and everyone in between to enter the Flightglobal Webbies or nominate their favourites in the eight aviation-related categories.

If you're part of the thriving online community of happy people that work and play with aircraft then get involved and make sure the best of the best are entered and nominated.

The categories are:

• Best Airline Website
• Best Airport Website
• Best Aerospace Manufacturer Website
• Best Air Show Website
• Best Online Innovation
• Best Online Marketing Campaign
• Best Aviation-related Blog
• Best New Aviation Website (0-2 years old)

Webbies links ... 

Webbies home	Categories	How to enter	Judging	Top tips	Sponsorship	Contact us

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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 ...

The competition is back again for 2008 ...

The judges are looking for something exceptional. The front cover of Flight International is prestigious podium for any budding photographer to say the least, so understandably the bar is set pretty high.

In order to give anybody entering a shove in the right direction, I've listed a few suggestions below:

The magazine has a rich heritage of striking front covers stretching right back to 1909 so for any image to be included for consideration it has to be:

It's got to be striking

Any front Flight International cover image has to do the job of helping the publication stand out among other magazines

Be unique or out of the ordinary in someway

This is a competition so there will be plenty of other punters entering their images. To stand the best chance yours should have something that makes it stick in the judges' minds

Get the composition right

Remember this is going to appear on the front cover of a magazine which has a predefined size and shape. You may have an unbelievable extra-wide panorama photo of LAX but that's not going to work for the magazine so try something else instead.

Make sure it's the right size and dpi

Simple logistics of the matter. Unless you image is minimum resolution of 300 DPI and 22cms high or wide it is not going to be of a high enough quality to run on the cover. 

Flightglobal's shop has now opened it's doors and you can add the latest JP Airline Fleets Directory, AirSpace t-shirts and baseball caps to your basket of Flightglobal merchandise.

AirSpace launches its second annual photo competition on Monday and the winner will have their photograph on the cover of the last issue of Flight International for 2008. And there's another photo competition where chosen images will be used on the cover of next year's JP Fleets Airline Directory.

Join in the discussion on what to call the Alenia Aermacchie M-346 jet trainer and win a free ride in it. Also there's a discussion on AirSpace about the Dambusters remake, said to be out in cinemas soon.

See a video of a special performance version of the 747 shot at the MCAS Miramar air show this year. It shows several passes of the jet in clean configuration getting lower and lower.

See FlightBlogger's post on the human cost of the Boeing strike. He says: "Having watched the strike unfold, it has become easy to lose sight of those at the centre of the debate. The story of the strike at its heart is about outsourcing, the 787 programme and the future of jetliner production. Though if these issues speak to its heart, its soul is found in the 27,000 people, customers and supplier held in limbo, unsure of what's next."

See images of the Airbus-owned A340-600 testing Pratt and Whitney's Geared Turbofan in the new GTF gallery on AirSpace. The aircraft embarked on a 75 flight hour test programme for the Pratt & Whitney PurePower PW1000G geared turbofan (GTF) engine to "evaluate the performance of the new engine architecture".

Take a look at a video of an aborted takeoff involving an Ilyushin IL18 somewhere in Africa. Few details are available but join other users in the AirSpace discussion about how, what and where it happened.

The MA600 took off on its first flight last week and Flight has some images of the aircraft in a growing gallery.

User Runlikehell has posted a gallery of impressive aircraft images predominantly made up of the F-22 Raptor but there are others including one he took showing Blue Angels formating above a car park at the bottom of a runway.

FlightBlogger wonders whether the 787's first flight will slip into 2009. He says in his blog: "Key ground vibration tests need to be completed on Dreamliner Two before Dreamliner One can fly as well. With a 36-day slip in assembly completion and 39-day strike, the October 29 first flight now finds itself in January."

Last week we finally got our new look Flightglobal shop up and running.

And with it comes a much improved user interface for our electronic transactional endeavours.

Flight produces a wealth of material that helps inform various business and organisations and allow them to make effective decisions in a competitive marketplace.

So now we're pleased to have a decent shop for those of you that need to buy a copy of JP Fleets, a business jet handbook or one of Flight Insight's high value reports.

But the fun doesn't stop there. We've also got DVDs, AirSpace t-shirts, caps and laptop bags so our members can kit themselves out.

And in the coming months we'll be adding a selection of cutaway posters and other merchandise - all in time for Christmas. So if you son, dad or colleague is an aviation nut and you're stuck for gift ideas then we might be able to help you out.

Flightglobal went to Orlando to cover the 61st NBAA show in Orlando last week and got video footage of a range of Bombardier aircraft at the static display including the Learjet 85 which was unveiled there.

Our own FlightBlogger has taken some pictures of the flightdeck and added them to his blog.

See also a video of Amanda Wright Lane, the great grandniece of the Wright Brothers, introducing a replica of the Wright "B" Flyer. She talked about the relevance of the aircraft in today's modern world and she marvelled at how the industry has progressed since the Wright B Flyer first took to the skies.

Flight caught up with old friend Harrison Ford who we recently caught up with in Oshkosh. See also a video of the press conference complete with slides as Presse Henne, Gulfstream president introduces the new G250.

FlightBlogger wrote a post "Pimp my Dreamliner" showing a picture of a model Boeing Business Jet's VIP model of the 787 Dreamliner. The model had video screens that were actually playing The Matrix. See a video of a model with a suggested VIP interior for the A350 XWB Prestige.

If you are having problems playing the clip, see it on YouTube

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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 ...