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.
Upon learning that Shevers was both an Eagle Scout and a newly minted Purdue engineer, Cincinnati Milling Machine Co. hired him on the spot. What the company did not know was that the young grad, a private pilot, was far more interested in airplanes than tool and die. Booted within six months, he began working as a flight instructor and soon peddling aviation gimcracks on the side. Today, ``Sporty's'' employs 200 shipping 12,000 different products. 1 How did you come up with the name `Sportsman's Market'?
MY MOTHER'S FATHER died when I was a little boy. Still, I remember him a bit, in particular at one meal at his lovely Forest Hills home when I spilled my glass of chocolate milk. Grampy suffered neither fools nor flaws and as the brown liquid spilled onto the floor he glared first at me and then at my grandmother, who, bless her, rose immediately in my defense. The crisis abated, but he was clearly upset, and consequently so was I. That anecdote draws a terribly unfair picture of a man who deserves a rousing epitaph.
By William Garvey william_garvey@ AviationNow.com www.AviationNow.com/BCA
THE TEAM HERE AT B/CA has a notably broad range of expertise. We've a make-it-from-scratch-just-like-grandmama-mia chef, a peripatetic competition bass fisherman, a trophy-winning kickboxer, a know-it-all Yankee fan, a Grand Canyon curator, a clock meister, and a masterly mariner. Then, too, we all know a few things about airplanes. It was because of that last body of knowledge that an aviation savvy executive recently got us invited to a working session of a Wall Street outfit that was reviewing its executive travel, with an eye toward business aviation.
