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.
There's an accelerated evolution under way in air transport, the proof of which was confirmed on my recent trip to Orlando. My conveyance was a new Airbus 320 with leather seats and a 24-channel inflight TV in every seatback. The cabin was clean and the crews cheery despite full loads. I had window seats, as requested, and push back occurred to the minute, as scheduled. There were libations and snacks to keep the voyagers content during the flawless journey.
His all-guys skiing vacation in Vail, Colo., was nearing an end when a business acquaintance offered to give him a ride back to New York in his company Learjet, an offer he couldn't refuse. So come Sunday evening, happy, tired and unshaven, he climbed aboard, and the Learjet climbed out of the Rockies, hastening east. Soon -- too soon, he thought -- the aircraft began descending. The pilot explained that the airplane didn't have the range to make it nonstop, so they were going to fuel up in Columbus, Ohio.
Robert E. Breiling President, Robert E. Breiling Associates Inc., Boca Raton, Fla. After piloting Banshees and S2Fs off carriers, Breiling flew for Pan Am until a furlough steered him into the insurance business, where he specialized in aviation analysis. He then helped fledgling SimuFlite take wing before founding his own aviation consultancy. His annual ``Business Turbine Aircraft Accident Review'' is a reference standard.
