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 unmanned aircraft systems. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2017, he worked for Aviation International News and Avionics and Rotor & Wing magazines.
Bill was the recipient of the National Business Aviation Association's Gold Wing Award in 2017 and 2022 for his reporting on drones and advanced air mobility, respectively, and in 1997 received the British Royal Aeronautical Society Aerospace Journalist of the Year award in the business aviation category. He is the author of the book, Enter The Drones, The FAA and UAVs in America, published in 2016.
Inflight connectivity provider Gogo said it expects to finish 2020 with more business aviation air-to-ground subscribers than it had at the start of the year, despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The U.S. Commerce Department on Dec. 18 added 77 mostly Chinese companies, including small drone manufacturer DJI, to its Entity List of companies subject to export restrictions “for actions deemed contrary” to U.S. interests.
Altitude Angel and Inmarsat have demonstrated a deployable UTM system that incorporates satellite communications to track drones flying beyond the visual range of an operator.
