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.
Further solidifying its ever-expanding list of meetings and conference venues, the NBAA, in partnership with Brazil's Associao Brasileira de Aviao Geral (ABAG), is hosting its second Latin American business aviation gathering on April 15-17 in So Paulo. This, the Latin American Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (LABACE), is expected to outdraw 2003's initial event that was attended by nearly 3,000 registrants. The NBAA is well known for, and largely financed by, its annual U.S.
A BIT OF MIDDLE SCHOOL humor. A burglar who has been casing a home for weeks waits until the owner leaves for work, goes to a side window, jimmies it open and enters. He's walking stealthily through the living room, eyeing the artwork and antiques, when a voice shatters the quiet, announcing, ``Jesus is watching!'' The thief nearly jumps out of his skin. His heart begins to race and he turns his head this way and that, looking for the speaker. He sees nothing.
IT IS PERFECTLY NATURAL for pilots to invest an instructor with their trust. After all, it's the instructor who demonstrates the right way to fly and helps bring the pilot to a higher level of understanding and competency. However, that trust should never be given automatically or without limitation because instructors do err, sometimes disastrously. A businessman pilot took some instrument instruction in a single-engine airplane through an FBO at Marshfield, Wis., Municipal Airport (MFI).
