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Flight International issue - 25th Nov - 1 Dec 2008

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.

Hat tip to FlightBlogger who's taken time to highlight 5 cool things on Flightglobal that he was previously ignorant of.

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

Flight International issue 28 Oct - 3rd Nov

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."

Flight International issue - 21-27 October

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."

Flight International - issue 14 - 21 October

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.

Flight International issue 9-15 September 2008

See an image of showing Bombardier's CRJ1000 first flight as posted on the Runway Girl blog and have a look at a picture of a frog in aircraft window taken by a passenger on a Turkish Airlines' Airbus A320 from Moscow to Istanbul.

The aircraft's journey before the Istanbul-Moskow flight, was from Adana, a large city in the southern Mediterranean region of Turkey where, apparently, tons of live frogs are sent to Japan and China to star in restaurant menus!

Watch the blowing up of a UK Royal Air Force Lockheed Martin C-130J which was previously destroyed after sustaining heavy damage in an incident while landing at a remote site in Iraq's Maysaan province. A Board of Inquiry decided it was "deemed unrecoverable due to operational constraints".

See a picture of the first of two Ilyushin Il-96-400T freighter for Russian flag carrier Aeroflot's cargo arm as it broke cover.

Watch a 1:9 scale radio-controlled model of the C-17 Globemaster III in action.

This one off special model is possibly the largest radio controlled model aircraft and features a fully operational cargo door and pneumatically operated flaps.

Browse the new look Flightglobal Archive and see 100 years of aviation history as it appeared in the original pages of Flight Magazine from 1909-2005.

The Archive is a collaborative and ongoing project and we welcome your input in growing our topic categories and discovering hidden gems. If you find something of interest that you want to share with us and other Archive visitors then let us know what you think by emailing our webmaster at webmaster@flightglobal.com.

Subscribe to the audio podcast version of Week on the Web ...

We've just started producing an audio version of Week on the Web.

Produced by our resident radio smoothy Jeff Decker, it's another way in which to access the site's top stories and other hot content.

The weekly podcast is available on AirSpace and soon to be listed on iTunes for those who want to subscribe to auto downloads (I'll post the link when it hits the charts).

As always we welcome your feedback on the length, format and content. If you'd love to see other stuff included then let us know.

Flight International - 19-25 Aug

This week Flight's team of experts have been covering the recent air safety incidents such as the SpanAir MD-82 and Itek Air 737-200 crashes, and the Ryanair 737-800 sudden decompression. Images, analysis and all the latest news can be found at flightglobal.com/safety

David Learmount offers great insight into how frightening incidents such as sudden decompression and go-arounds are handled by the Flight Crew. Flightglobal.com/learmount

Mary Kirby aka Runway Girl asks whether inflight Wi-Fi should be free and uncensored, or regulated to prevent the skies becoming X-rated.

Flight's newest blog Asian Skies was launched this week. It aims to bring you all the latest news and debate from the burgeoning Asian aerospace market.

See pictures of a Cessna aircraft which crashed onto a busy street in Yao, a business district in western Japan, although luckily with no fatalities.

And finally this is week four of the popular Guess the Airport competition on AirSpace in which we ask users to identify an international airport from an aerial image view. This time we've raised the bar so if you think you an airport expert then have a go.

Flight International 26 August - 1 September 2008

In celebration of 100 years of flight Le Mans Sarthe Aero Retro group staged an event at the Hunaudières race course in Le Mans marking Wilbur Wright's first flight in France.

See images of Wright Flyer replicas in our gallery of images including one image of a German Wright Flyer replica hung from the church roof of Abbaye de l'Épau.

Inmarsat last week confirmed the successful launch and acquisition of the third Inmarsat-4 satellite see Mary Kirby's Runway Girl blog and because the image was so powerful, we used it again on the Image of the Day blog.

Low cost carrier Volaris is to take delivery of its first Airbus A320 in November and has significantly accelerated deliveries for A319s. See a gallery of images of the aircraft on AirSpace.

See the image on the Image of the Day blog showing Australia's Qantas A380 cabin first flight and see an image of the Cessna aircraft that crashed onto a street in bustling business district Yao, Japan and take a look at an interesting video of a shuttle launch seen by a passenger on an Air Canada flight

Flight International - week 12-18 Aug

The Flight team were at Oshkosh recently and have now fine-tuned even more videos making the playlist amount to 25.

Watch the video of the V-22 Osprey arriving at the show, see footage from a flight in a Citation Mustang, riding in an S-1A-65F Cadet and Harrison Ford speaking to the industry at the podium.

See a video on Stephen Trimble's blog, The DEW Line, which spoofs a television news show highlighting how the Pentagon has deployed an unmanned drone, which looks similar to Star Wars lovable astromech droid R2-D2, as its spokesman,

See Emirate's new A380 showered by water cannon on touch down at San Francisco Airport as it undergoes a West Coast familiarisation tour.

FlightBlogger has compiled a three part blog which puts, in a broader context, the current state of Boeing's 787 programme and based on an interview he had with 787 programme chief Pat Shanahan. Part one focuses on the progress on Dreamliner One as it prepares for its first flight in November. Part two examines the current state of the supply chain. The final part looks at the five remaining flight test aircraft.

We've launched a new weekly competition where we'll upload a new aerial view of an airport for you to identify and you should state its IATA code. First correct answer posted to the comments section below the image will not only earn you AirSpace kudos but will get you lots of AirSpace goodies.