Aviation International News senior correspondent Ian Goold has been involved in aerospace since 1964 and in aviation media for more than 40 years. He enjoyed a 20-year career at Flight International magazine, where he was latterly air-transport editor before turning freelance in 1993. A winner of the European Regions Airline Association Hank McGonagle award for excellence in aerospace journalism and a Royal Aeronautical Society Aerospace Journalist of the Year global&nbsp;award, he has edited or contributed to aerospace and aviation magazines, special publications, and websites in Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America. Ian entered aerospace as an apprentice at the British Aircraft Corporation at Brooklands (Weybridge), where he worked on production and final assembly lines of the Vickers Super VC10, and BAC One-Eleven , and manufacture of Concorde major sub-assemblies. He subsequently graduated from the BAC Design Training School to work in the airframe structures drawing office (including design of international future projects, such as the Panavia Tornado multi-role combat aircraft) before joining Flight International in 1973. Apart from years of reading aircraft magazines and books, his first direct contact with aviation media had come during the early 1970s when he was involved at Brooklands with the Weybridge Man-powered Aircraft Group, which designed and built the tenth aircraft to fly under purely human power. As an aviation journalist, he has worked at more than&nbsp; 50 of the major biennial&nbsp;global and regional international aerospace industry shows at Le Bourget, Farnborough, Singapore, and Dubai (having missed attending only one "Farnborough" since 1960), plus innumerable NBAA, HAI, (U.S.) AOPA, and EBACE Conventions and ERA Assemblies. His favourite aircraft is the Hawker Hunter, of which – as a schoolboy – he heard hundreds make their first flights from Dunsfold, where also on September 24, 2013, he saw the penultimate landing of the VC10 (happily involving an example of which he had witnessed the maiden takeoff in 1970) a day before the last example made the design's final flight (unless, of course....).

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Ian Goold

For any business aircraft manufacturers that have so far resisted the temptation, it is not too late to book space to display products and services at the Farnborough International airshow (FI2008), the global aerospace show taking place in the UK, July 14 to 21. The Farnborough show’s head of marketing, Philippa Ewart, told EBACE Convention News that the business aircraft community is very important to the show, which this year is celebrating its 60th anniversary. Accordingly, she and her colleagues will be here at EBACE’08 tomorrow promoting the biennial event, which alternates with France’s Paris Air Show.
FI2008 is continuing the Business Aircraft Park (BAP) concept first introduced as a three-day “show within a show” four years ago, allowing exhibitors the flexibility to withdraw aircraft after the first three trade days of the seven-day event. However, manufacturers are retaining the option to keep their aircraft on display for the duration of the show if they prefer.
Farnborough International–the company that organizes the show–believes the BAP generated some $550 million worth of sales at the FI2006 event. FI is a subsidiary of UK industry trade group the Society of British Aerospace Companies.
Having adopted a very flexible approach designed to meet the requirements of exhibitors who may need to get aircraft back into service with their customers, FI told EBACE Convention News that although all chalets had been allocated, it might still be able to accommodate latecomers. “There is still space for aircraft. We always try to fit everyone in,” said Ewart.
Also still available is the chance to sponsor elements of the BAP. According to FI, title sponsorship of the BAP offers an extensive range of high-profile rights and benefits. A literally concrete indication of continuing FI investment in the show infrastructure has been the construction of new permanent hard-standing aircraft-parking “pads” close to the BAP hospitality area and the adjoining chalets. In addition, a specially developed aviation trackway is being laid, and will accommodate as many as six aircraft of up to Airbus ACJ or Boeing BBJ size and weight.
FI has also accommodated manufacturers’ aspirations by providing flexibility for them to show their aircraft on the ground, with the freedom to provide customer demonstration flights after the flying display each day. The organizers also are providing a reception building where BAP exhibitors can conduct meetings and they also are permitting them to have a small information display alongside their aircraft.
The newly extended BAP is located toward the west end of the static aircraft display area, close to Chalet Row J and within good view of Row A. French manufacturer Dassault Aviation, which was formerly housed in the northeast facing Row K, has already taken the first two of the 10 Row J chalet units. Other occupants of Row J are TAG Aviation and Hawker Beechcraft.
Gulfstream has already booked display space, while Grob and Avions de Transport Regional are new participants in the business aircraft area. Grob will be in Row A, while ATR will occupy two aircraft pads and a chalet at the end of Row K.
Ewart stressed that business aircraft makers don’t have to restrict themselves to the BAP at Farnborough. For example, Bombardier has retained its chalet in Row C and will have a new panoramic building near its traditional aircraft position in the main static aircraft line. Cessna, which returned to Farnborough in 2006 after a break in participation, will be back again.
The BAP will be open for six hours, from 10 a.m. on opening day, July 14, and from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on the next two days.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

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