Kirby Harrison is a freelance writer for The Weekly of Business Aviation, Business & Commercial Aviation and others in the Informa publishing chain. Harrison joined the Navy in 1962 and spent 20 years in the service, virtually all of it as a photojournalist, traveling from small islands in the South Pacific to Vietnam to the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon. When Harrison retired from the Navy, he went back to college and graduated in 1971 from Syracuse University with a Bachelor's Degree in Photojournalism. Along the way, he spent two years as a news photographer at the Daily Press & Times Herald in Newport News, Virginia, and three years working for Studio Sebe in Nice, France as a photographer. More recently, before retiring, he worked nearly 20 years for Naval Aviation News.
Maintenance, repair and overhaul provider StandardAero has joined in a strategic alliance with Flight Display Systems (FDS) Avionics “to bring the next generation of in-flight entertainment to today’s business aircraft market.”
Officials with the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA), the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), Geneva’s Palexpo exhibit center and Geneva Airport have signed an agreement to continue to hold the annual European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE) at Palexpo through 2021.
The U.S. Senate on April 19 passed the amended and long-awaited version of the FAA reauthorization bill, drawing applause from the general and business aviation communities.
