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.
Custom Control Concepts has received Hollywood Studio Digital Rights Management (DRM) approval for its audio-visual on-demand (AVOD) inflight entertainment system.
China cut its economic growth target to 7% last fall, signaling the slowest expansion in 20 years. On the other hand, the Chinese economy remains the envy of most other countries, and the global business aviation industry continues to bet on sustained growth.
The start of the Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (ABACE) in Shanghai is just days away, and the number of manufacturer chalets has continued to expand.
