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.
Authorities estimate some 100,000 pets have been displaced by the hurricanes that devastated the island of Puerto Rico in September, and aviation in the form of Wings of Rescue is leading the relief effort.
Ed Smith, senior vice president of environmental and international affairs of GAMA, recently noted that the aviation industry, including business aviation, leads the way in its commitment to mitigating its effect on climate change.
Environmental responsibility is part of business aviation and is shown by the reduction in engine emissions realized by the growing use of flight simulators for pilot training rather than by deploying the actual aircraft.
