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.
Movie reviewer David Manning is easy to please. The flicks need only be produced by Sony to win his approval. You see, Manning is the fictitious character concocted by Sony marketers to gush about the company's latest offerings. When the ruse was recently discovered by Newsweek, there were lots of red faces at Sony. Elsewhere in Tinsel Town there was much head scratching since studios know raves are easy to come by -- just invite a no-name reviewer from a no-name publication on an all-expense-paid junket.
A. L. Ueltschi President and Founder, FlightSafety International He started FlightSafety in 1951 and nurtured it to become the world's largest independent pilot and maintenance training organization. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway acquired FSI in 1996. Ueltschi, now 84 and a man of considerable wealth, continues as FSI's hard-driving, plain-talking leader. 1 For a while, FlightSafety had the simulator training business pretty much to itself, but now a number of companies have entered. Why?
The movie ``Moscow on Hudson'' contains a scene in which newly arrived Soviet defector Vladimir Ivanoff enters a New York supermarket looking for ``the coffee line.'' He's directed to Aisle 2 and when he turns the corner, he begins hyperventilating. He'd expected to find some sad sack of mealy, dried out beans because that had always been his experience in Mother Russia. Instead he discovers shelves towering with cans, jars, and bins heavy with coffee -- ground, freeze dried, pulverized and roasted -- from every corner of the world.
