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.
Aircraft manufacturers are taking a greater in-house role in the design, development and production of the executive seats that go into their jets and turboprops.
Global maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) provider StandardAero recently completed its first U.S. registered Learjet 45 Honeywell Primus Elite installation at its facility in Augusta, Georgia, using JetCity’s FAA-approved Supplemental Type Certificate.
The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) announced at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin that it has reached an agreement with employment services provider JSfirm as its newest job distribution partner.
