Bill was Editor-in-Chief of Business & Commercial Aviation from 2000 to 2020. During his stewardship, the monthly magazine received scores of awards for editorial excellence.
He is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement in Journalism Award from the National Business Aviation Association; the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Aerospace Media Awards; the Aviation Journalism Award from the National Air Transportation Association; and an Aerospace Journalist of the Year Award for Business Aviation.
Previously, Bill served as Managing Editor of Aviation Week Television. He was the top editor for both Flying and Professional Pilot magazines, as well as a member of the senior editorial staff at Reader's Digest. He also managed communications for FlightSafety International.
Bill has authored or co-authored three aviation books, was an essayist for National Public Radio, wrote aviation documentaries for The Discovery Channel and has written for numerous publications including The New York Times, Smithsonian Air & Space, Popular Mechanics and The Associated Press, among others.
An active aviator, Bill holds a Commercial Pilot license, along with multiengine, instrument, seaplane and glider ratings.
The fuselage, wings, fin and engines of the first G650 have come together in Savannah, Ga., at the new 308,000-sq. ft. Nicholas Chabraja Manufacturing Center, recently named in honor of the chairman of General Dynamics, Gulfstream’s parent The company says the aircraft is on schedule to fly by year’s end. Gulfstream plans to use five aircraft in the flight trials and expects to begin deliveries of certified units in the latter half of 2012.
A native of Trinidad, then a British colony, Mackay earned an engineering degree from McGill University in Montreal and a Ph.D. in electronics and communications engineering from Sydney University in Australia. He taught at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, before serving as chief executive at a number of diverse companies including GEAC Computers in Toronto, Innotech Aviation in Montreal, and the Trinidad and Tobago Telephone Co. He was head of CAL Corp. in Ottawa when it was acquired by EMS Technologies in 1993.
By Jim Cannon with William Garvey, Jim Cannon with William Garvey
Sales have slowed. Warehouses have filled. Profits are down. Analysts are tsk-tsking, reporters are snooping and stockholders are angry. It’s crunch time, that anxious period when every asset, every department undergoes excruciating cost/benefit scrutiny. The worry increases with each business unit’s distance from the company’s core activity — that is, producing, selling or supporting its main products or services.
