Carole Rickard Hedden retired in 2022 as Executive Editor for custom content and Program Excellence for the Aviation Week Network, providing custom content and research to industry executives. She also was Managing Editor of Aviation Week’s Advanced Air Mobility Report. She joined Aviation Week in 1996 as a financial/business editor and has led special projects for more than two decades.
Prior to joining Aviation Week, Hedden worked for over 20 years in the news media and as a corporate communications leader at Fortune 100 companies.
China will likely be the first geographic region to embrace urban air mobility and will dominate the market through 2035 when the U.S. is projected to take over market leadership.
Yeager Airport in Charleston, West Virginia, is going all-in to develop a complete system to support electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air service, through new partnerships.
Gur Kimchi, co-founder of Amazon’s drone delivery service Amazon Prime Air, has joined the board of directors at Near Earth Autonomy, which is working to develop safe and efficient autonomous flight capabilities.
