John was editor of Aviation Week's ShowNews for nearly two decades. He retired in 2020. His background in business journalism before joining Aviation Week includes stints at Reuters, the American Banker daily banking newspaper and as business news editor at the Milwaukee Journal and the Cincinnati Enquirer.
A lifelong aviation enthusiast, John has been a private pilot for 34 years and won an award at EAA Oshkosh for his restoration of a vintage British Auster army spotter aircraft. He is currently building a 1920s Staaken Flitzer biplane from plans. John attended his first Farnborough Air Show in 1952, when just eight months old.
GE Aviation’s new advanced turboprop for the Cessna Denali is crucial to growth plans that call for its business and general aviation powerplants to generate more than $1 billion a year by 2023.
Google founder Larry Page’s electric Kitty Hawk “flying jetski” Flyer will hit the consumer market at year’s end with a sleeker development of the quadrotor prototype.
Silicon Valley-based A³, set up to disrupt its parent Airbus from within, plans to fly its Vahana single-seat autonomous urban transportation aircraft by year’s end, a spokesperson disclosed at EAA AirVenture.
