Aviation Week Is Everywhere at Farnborough!

It won't be hard to find Aviation Week at Farnborough 2000, because the dominant force in aerospace news is dominating the show site, too.

Most obvious will be the Aviation Week airship, shared with Boeing and the SBAC. It will make its slow perambulations over the show site Monday through Sunday mornings from about 10 to past noon, weather permitting. Then it flies over the surrounding countryside, and over London by night.

There will be major distribution of our Show News at the show site Monday through Thursday. These 88-page dailies have acquired a reputation for exacting accuracy, broad content, and graphic excellence. Our writers are the best in the business, well-respected aerospace journalists with hundreds of airshow reports between them. Indeed, Show News writers have been selected to provide a daily feature to the venerable International Herald Tribune, summarizing each day's news from the show.

You can't miss the Aviation Week headline ticker, a 16-by-6-foot electronic billboard located at traffic-rich "show central" where the chalet rows, display halls and static line intersect. The ticker features the latest news, filed by Show News reporters, as it happens. The ticker will feature global news headlines from the International Herald Tribune as well.

Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine, the cornerstone of the Aviation Week group, is holding its "Best Managed Companies" symposium at Farnborough on Tuesday morning in the Media Center. It's based on Aviation Week's renowned annual feature of the same name, and on Aviation Week's exclusive "competitiveness index." Among top executives from winning companies scheduled to speak and participate in roundtable discussions are Jerry Atkins, chairman of Sky West; Robert E. Brown, president and CEO of Bombardier, Inc.; and Eric Honegger, chairman of SAirGroup. Also on the dais will be Michael O' Leary, chief executive of Ryanair; Clive Snowdon, chief executive of Umeco; and James R. Stanley, senior VP and chief operating officer of Howmet International. Keynote speaker is Hasso Plattner, co-founder and CEO of SAP.

Tuesday night we will present our prestigious Curtis Sword award to Sir Richard Evans, chairman of BAE Systems. And, as always, we are producing and distributing "The Spotters Guide to the Flying Display"-the only sure aircraft reference the chalet-hopper needs.

Aviation Week group is expanding its multimedia education program, called The Next Century of Flight. It celebrates the past and anticipates the future of aviation and aerospace. The 60-square-meter pavilion will feature interactive, audio-visual and three-dimensional displays as well as hands-on demonstrations by qualified instructors. Co-sponsored by SBAC and FAA, the Showcase is located on Lincoln Road, adjacent to Exhibition Road. Aviation Week's booth is at Hall 1/Stand D43.

Have a colleague or friend who can't make the show? Tell them to jump on the Internet and access www.AviationNow.com. The latest news from the show will be available-along with streaming video of key events. Coverage includes galleries of photos shot by Show News photographers.

By Paul Proctor