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 2016 study, researchers at the University of Maryland developed mathematical proofs to define jet lag more precisely, and according to Associate Professor Michelle Girvan, the condition has everything to do with the brain's so-called "pacemaker cells" being disrupted as people cross multiple time zones.
The Latin American Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition, to be held Aug. 15-17 in Sao Paulo, will celebrate its 15th year amid a “schizophrenic” business aviation market. an analyst says.
