Twitter: December 2009 Archives

The big news of the week was the first flight of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner which successfully took to the skies, albeit two and a half years later than anticipated.

The jet lifted off the tarmac to the sounds of excited whoops and cheers from spectators. Jon Ostrower's FlightBlogger was in his element as resident 787 expert, tweeting and streaming video live at the scene at Paine Field, Everett.

An AirSpace blogger Andrew Sieber posted in interesting piece with images and text about the chase planes that would be trailing the 787.

If you'd also like to have your own blog hosted by AirSpace, where it will be read by an audience of over 5,000 users, email Flightglobal's Community Editor Stuart Clarke.    

On the Flightglobal archive, read the article "Flight in 1915" which is the result of asking people where they imagined the "position of flying in six years' time". M. Jules Bois volunteers a prediction for 100 years time suggesting that the "motor car will have gone completely out of fashion, but the bicycle, in a new form, will enable the rider to soar in mid-air".

See a bizarre an image of a puff of smoke which an AirSpace user has uploaded to AirSpace. Flyer1 seems disgruntled as he describes the image as a stealth Royal Air Force after the government has made their cuts. "Stealth technology by STINK Works....it has disappeared in a puff of smoke!"

Must be something in the air, as we've got a few new bits and pieces to talk about on Flightglobal this week.

Yesterday we updated our Blogs page - which use to simply list all the Flightglobal bloggers on the payroll, plus the latest posts.

The new-look Blogs (and Social Media) page continues to feature all our expert Flightglobal blogs and posts, but in addition we've added a bunch of extra goodies for blog fans to enjoy.

We have a new tab for our excellent collection of AirSpace bloggers. This growing portfolio of bloggers from the community of AirSpace members covers various different subjects, angles and indeed continents.

If you'd like to start a blog on AirSpace and be featured on this tab then let our Community Editor Stuart Clarke (aka Maverick on AirSpace) know.

Then there's a tab for the latest comments added to the Flightglobal blogs.
Obviously blogs are a two-way medium and all comments (as long as they're not offensive) are welcome and discussed in the Flightglobal Offices. We currently average around 200+ comments a week on our blogs with most of them being of an extremely high quality.

Lastly, there's a tab for Twitter. This lists the Twitter handles of Flightglobal staffers, our sector-specific Twitter accounts, and also our current Twitter favs from the world of Aerospace and Aviation.