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.
ACJ sees an important market for the ACJneo business jets in North America, “where private jets are widely used as business tools by companies, billionaires and governments, helping them to be more productive.”
Speed may be the most important thing, but it is not the only thing. According to Aerion, the aerodynamics of supersonic flight dictate a unique non-constant cabin cross section – widest in the aft cabin and tapering forward.
Highlighting its presence at this year’s convention, Elliott Aviation is introducing the 400E, a fully modified business jet it describes as “the next generation of Beechjet 400A/Hawker 400XP upgrade.”
