Sticking With Our Soul

摘要

It is an immensely humbling experience to be editing a magazine that has been appearing continuously since a few weeks after Samuel Cody's first airborne hop at Farnborough, through two world wars and a Cold War, and into today's "fast-food" era of instant information gratification via the web. Flight International today may look very different to the black and white journal that grainily charted the early exploits of those magnificent men in their flying machines. But the heart and soul of the magazine has not changed much. We still aim to report and make sense of all that is important in what is now a global multi-billion dollar industry. And we get as enthusiastic about new technology in action as did our predecessors at the sight of a fragile-looking biplane spluttering its way over hedgerows.