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.
Announced on Jan. 8, the agreement calls for Clay Lacy to build an electrical infrastructure to support Joby’s Global Electric Aviation Charging System (GEACS).
Aviation services company Elliott Aviation announced the delivery of its first Beechcraft King Air B200 turboprop upgraded with the Garmin Autoland system.