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John Morris

Hartford, CT

Summary

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.

Articles

By John Morris
Elements of the design were unveiled at EBACE 2015, but they elicited doubt about the feasibility of the concept. So Lufthansa Technik has spent the past year engineering the sumptuous interior into a product.
NBAA

By John Morris
Airbus Group Innovations has flown its E-fan proof-of-concept electric aircraft with hybrid propulsion, adding an internal-combustion engine as a range extender.
Oshkosh

By John Morris
Just as public enthusiasm for unmanned aircraft systems forced the U.S. to draw up new rules for drones, so China’s civil aviation authorities will be forced to embrace general aviation (GA) as people take to the skies illegally.
Business Aviation