Pilots Strive To Stay Current And Help Others During Pandemic

Project Wingman flight crew volunteers
Under Project Wingman, uniformed pilots and cabin crew have provided comfort to National Health Service medical workers at 80 hospitals in the UK.
Credit: Project Wingman
Stuart Beech is an Airbus A380 senior first officer with British Airways who by this fall had last flown in early April, before the airline stored its A380s at Chateauroux Airport in central France because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Within a month of being grounded from revenue service, Beech was...
Bill Carey

Bill covers business aviation and advanced air mobility for Aviation Week Network. A former newspaper reporter, he has also covered the airline industry, military aviation, commercial space and uncrewed aircraft systems. He is the author of 'Enter The Drones, The FAA and UAVs in America,' published in 2016.

Jens Flottau

Based in Frankfurt, Germany, Jens is executive editor and leads Aviation Week Network’s global team of journalists covering commercial aviation.

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