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.
I marvel at business aviation, at the variety of its equipment, the diversity of its missions, and its responsiveness. It's a well-worn Navajo rumbling across the Alleghenies at night with a load of vital manufacturing parts strapped down in back, and it's a gleaming Global Express touching down in Santiago with a cargo of Atlanta executives, eager to do a deal.
Once all the dimples were deliberated, chads charted and George W. Bush declared winner of the Florida vote and, thereby, the presidency, a bellow began to emanate from Washing-ton, echoing all the way to the Grand Canyon and back again. Steve Bassett was shouting for joy, for redemption. His man had won; or more precisely, his enemy had lost.
Photograph: Kenneth Ricci Flight Options founder, chairman&CEO Flight Options, a fractional ownership program featuring pre-owned business jets, began operation in 1998 and today claims over 600 customers. The Flight Options fleet numbers 82 aircraft, including Citation IIs and IIIs, Hawker 800s, Falcon 50s, Challenger 601s and Gulfstream IVs. Kenneth Ricci, a 6,000-hour ATP and an attorney, is Flight Options' founder, chairman and CEO. Will an economic slowdown hurt the phenomenal growth of fractional programs?
