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.
Vice President - Analysis, The Teal Group, Fairfax, Va. Raised in metropolitan New York, Aboulafia earned a master's degree in War Studies at Kings College in London. Trained in the details of armed conflict, he became an expert on the technology employed in war, particularly aircraft and engines. Hired by Teal in 1989, his field of interest has expanded to include all of aerospace. A fine writer, unemotional observer and pithy commentator, he is a favorite source of news editors and producers, trade conference speaker and lecturer.
I AM WRITING THIS in a 12th floor room of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in the fair city of Montreal (five floors below John and Yoko's "Bed-in for Peace" suite, for you Summer of Lovers). I drove here a few days ago (DayJet doesn't serve Danbury, Conn. yet) to attend the annual Canadian Business Aviation Association gathering and visit Bombardier.
Beaumont, Kan. An attorney by training, hotel man by career and airplane addict by choosing, Craig in 2001 suspended the rules of business that have moved him to accumulate and shed large properties over the years and purchased a tiny, shuttered century-and-a-half-old establishment adjacent to a 2,600-foot grass strip in the barely-there-burg of Beaumont. 1 A dilapidated, 11-room hotel in the middle of nowhere. Why did you do it?
