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.
Wheels Up, a membership-based private aviation company out of New York, has begun offering flights to and from Havana on its fleet of King Air 350i twin turboprops and Citation Excel/XLS twin-jets.
To meet its goals for the Next Generation Air Transportation System, the FAA has identified six “transformational” programs to provide a platform for new capabilities.
With the aviation industry facing a pilot shortage, Hong Kong-based aviation consulting firm Asian Sky Group (ASG) has warned that the Asia-Pacific region will be one of the hardest hit.
