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.
In a public announcement on July 23 in downtown Manhattan, the City Council said this legislation “will regulate the tourist helicopter industry in New York City to reduce noise and air pollution for New Yorkers who live and use public parks along the tourist-helicopter routes.”
Even as Brazil struggles to emerge from one of the worst economies since 1991, organizers of the Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (LABACE) have high expectations for this year’s show in the country’s bustling business center of São Paulo.
The business jet industry has been wishing for lower fuel prices, lower interest rates and a strong dollar. “And damned if we didn’t get it,” said Jay Mesinger, founder and CEO of Mesinger Jet Sales. What the industry didn’t get, however, was the robust recovery that typically accompanies previous recessions.
