Flightglobal

Thought you might like to know who is beavering away behind the scenes at “Teamglobal” to produce this wonderful site.

There are, in fact, a lot of people at Flight that contribute significantly to Flighglobal but who also have other responsibilities – I’ll no doubt blog about them in future.

But this bunch is the full-time dedicated website team and an have various responsibilities on the site

Myself
I’m Michael and I’ve had the pleasure of running the site since March 2007.
I look after the editorial direction and strategic development of the site, via the medium of long and frequent meetings.

Babs
Babs is Flightglobal’s Content Editor. She coordinates the works from our collective journalistic talent and decides what makes the home page and section home pages. She also blogs on the Flight International Blog and is partial to a glass of champagne.

Disco Stu
Stu is Flightglobal’s Community Editor. He’s primarily responsible for looking after AirSpace and all of the Flight Blogs. He also gets involved with the Flightglobal’s presence outside of our own site. For example, our Facebook Group – which everyone’s welcome to join.

Kelley
Kelley is our Webmaster (or Webmistress if you know her really well …) and is the longest serving member of the team. She’s responsible for publishing all the news and features and ensuring they all look good and have lots of good links in. Kelley also holds a Private Pilot’s License.

Paul
Paul is our newest team member but extremely experienced on the aviation side. He’s our Images Coordinator and looks after the Flight images (including Cutaways) on AirSpace as well as editing the Images of the Day blog.

A beautiful bunch I’m sure you’ll all agree.

Flightglobal, like any large website, has the occasional glitch.

And like London buses these issues always seem to come along in groups.

So at the moment our developers are gamely battling against several nasty gremlins including a long running glitchy blog platform (solution due in May), some code corruption issues (nearly sorted), and some problems with formatting on AirSpace (fix should be deployed in a week or two).

As a bit of a cathartic release one of them (Robi) conjured up the graphic below and emailed it to me under the subject “User Feedback”.

How droll ...

(if it's a bit quick for you it shows Commander Riker from Star Trek the Next Generation looking at flightglobal.com and getting excited. But then ultimately his hopes are crushed as he hits the dreaded "Server Error in Application" page).