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Week on the web

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:37:16 +0000

On The DEW Line, Stephen Trimble found "startling trends" in cost data for the US Air Force's ageing and most mature combat aircraft, and noted that things get "a little weird" when the focus switches to less mature or less numerous types, citing per-flight-hour figures for the Lockheed Martin F-22 and Bell Boeing CV-22.

In our back-issue archive, Jon "FlightBlogger" Ostrower dug up a 1989 story in which McDonnell Douglas "concedes that, with fuel prices unlikely to rise substantially in the near future, there is 'inadequate motivation' for airlines to gamble on unducted-fan technology".

Asian Skies blogger Greg Waldron sourced from the China Defence Mashup website a photo purportedly of a crashed Chinese UAV.

"To me it looks like the Pterodactyl," he wrote.

A page for our Aircraft Profiles (and a chance to create your own)

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:09:24 +0000

We're starting the process of building a collection of aircraft profiles on Flightglobal.

Our aircraft profiles bring the best and latest information on any given aircraft together in one place.

Sources include the unique 100 Year Flight Archive, images from AirSpace and Airliners.net, news from Flightglobal and the rest of the aviation web, videos from FlightLevel350.com, blogs from Flightglobal, and discussion from AirSpace.

The profiles are dynamic and update automatically as new content is added to any of the source sites.

The latest profiles are on our Aircraft Profiles page and as we rapidly expand our collection the new ones will be added to the list:

Our dynamic pages can actually be built on any possible subject simply by changing the keyword in the URL. Eg. flightglobal.com/landingpage/sausages.aspx

The difference between these and the ones on the left is that unless we have formally created the introductory content to correspond to that keyword then the top box will not appear.

However the advantage of having a go yourself is that we can see what you're looking at, whether it's "monkeys" or "C-130s". That then steers our decision on what we spend time embellishing and beautifying! True user-centric design in action.

http://www.flightglobal.com/landingpage/monkey.aspx
http://www.flightglobal.com/landingpage/c-130.aspx

Aviation sightseeing courtesy of Google Maps

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:22:52 +0000

Our Community Editor Stuart has been busy pulling together a list of aviation oddities captured by Google Maps’ satellite imagery.

Listing various interesting sights included aircraft parts on a train heading for Boeing’s Everett factory, a mysterious downed aircraft in the Mojave Desert and what seems to be an F-117 Stealth Fighter in a swimming pool.

It’d be great to expand this list so if you have a suggestion for our collection, or if you want to talk about some of our finds, then have your say in our Google maps area on AirSpace.

There’s got to be countless examples out there. For example Max Kingsley-Jones (Flight International’s Deputy Editor) told me there’s supposed to be a crashed Boeing 707 left to rust somewhere on the banks of the River Nile. I’ve got to admit I gave up looking after a while (it is the longest river in the world after all), but let us know if you have more luck and we’ll add it to the list.