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.
Aviation might be in his DNA — after all, his father was a McDonnell-Douglas engineer — but that wasn’t immediately apparent. After all, rather than being drawn to the ocean of air as a teenager, he spent all his free time in or on the Ocean Pacific. An impassioned Southern California surfer, Paul Bowen spent his free hours hangin’ ten rather than doing touch and goes. The only hint of what was to follow occurred during the freewheeling parties conducted by the Jesters, a North Hollywood High social club, for which Paul served as impromptu visual documentarian.
He was brash, self-assured, independent, anti-war and full of big ideas. The daughter of an Air Force brigadier general, she was studious, serious, well ordered and clear about her post-college future as a college professor – a plan that did not include marriage for at least another ten years. And so naturally the two Indiana University undergrads fell hard for one another early and informed their surprised, respective families that they planned to marry.
Graham Warwick (Washington), William Garvey (Ridgefield, Conn.)
Just weeks after industry leaders expressed hope that their record backlogs would cushion them from the global financial crisis, some business aircraft manufacturers are cutting deliveries and workers as orders slacken and used aircraft pile up.
