Bill covers business aviation and advanced air mobility for Aviation Week. 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.
Online retailer Amazon is seeking exemptions from FAA to operate its Prime Air drone delivery service as an air carrier under the agency’s Part 135 regulation.
A vulnerability in the avionics systems on some airliners could allow someone with access to the aircraft to manipulate the flight data that is provided to pilots, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has warned.
While ADS-B has been installed on various military models, only a few of the roughly 13,000 manned DOD aircraft will be equipped when the mandate takes effect.
