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.
Attorney, Lynn, Mass. Among the most prominent and controversial defense attorneys of modern times, Bailey was an aviator before he was a litigator, earning his U.S. Navy wings in 1954 and then flying FJ-2 Furies for the Marines. His aviation credentials include past ownership of Enstrom Helicopters, consultant to Fairchild Aircraft, and stewardship of the Bailey Bullet, his much-upgraded Piper Twin Comanche. He has logged in excess of 20,000 hours.
IT WAS ALREADY pitch black when we landed, an unusual hour for arriving at a sunny place like Nassau. We caught a beat-up island cab and started making our way through some uncomfortably seedy sections of the unfamiliar town. Presently, we came to a dimly lit dock area, with no one in sight. "This is it, mon," the driver said. The young lady beside me agreed. "Yes, that's the boat."
Group CEO, Jet Aviation, Zurich, Switzerland A graduate of the University of Southern California's School of International Relations, Edwards has spent nearly three decades in business aviation as a sales and manufacturing executive, first with AiResearch, then selling Gulfstreams in Europe, and later as president of Bombardier Business Aircraft in Montreal. A member of the board of directors of Supersonic Aerospace International, which is developing a supersonic business jet, he was appointed to his current position this past May.
