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.
In this age of five-star super center FBOs, the GAT, for ``general aviation terminal,'' at New York's Kennedy International is quite something else. It is grey, stark, unwelcoming and remote. While the people who work there are nice enough, there aren't many of them. There's no need. At the GAT, traffic is modest on a busy day, and non-existent on others.
IT WAS COLUMBUS DAY so the schools were closed, but even without any yellow buses blocking our way, I knew we couldn't cover 15 miles in the next 10 minutes. Although we had risen with time to spare, our morning's progress had been interrupted by one unexpected bother after another, and now we were going to be late. My stomach knotted.
THE HEAT OF SUMMER HAD PASSED, so it was time to fetch mom and bring her home to Austin, Texas. As had become her habit, the 82-year-old former high school English teacher spent her summers 550 nm to the west in Angel Fire, a resort town located high in a cool mountain valley within New Mexico's Wheeler Peak range. It was Sept. 23, 2004, a perfect day for the out-and-back flight in a Cessna 421 owned by one of her sons. The plan called for him to fly to Angel Fire along with an assistant who would then drive the woman's car and belongings back to Texas.
