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.
FAA will give industry 60 additional days to weigh in on the agency’s request for information that is expected to help shape a new drug and alcohol testing policy for certain foreign repair stations. Industry representatives, including the Aeronautical Repair Station Association, Airlines For America, the International Air Transport Association, and Lufthansa asked FAA to add 120 days to the comment period, which was set to expire May 16. FAA split the difference, pushing the comment deadline out to July 17.
The Corporate Angel Network has logged its 45,000th cancer patient flight. The milestone mission took place in late April when a business jet operated by Bank of New York-Mellon carried Todd Blake, a 22-year-old Hodgkin’s lymphoma patient, and his mother Nancy, from New York City where he’s been receiving treatment back to their home in Jacksonville Beach, Fla. There were also six BNY-Mellon passengers aboard traveling to Orlando; the bank has been flying CAN patients for more than 30 years.
Gulfstream’s G280 continues to rack up speed records, gaining two more while en route to Shanghai for ABACE. The latest records, which bring the total number to 47, were established in two legs between Friedrichshafen Airport in German and Hong Kong. The G280 flew 2,751 nm from Germany to Dubai International Airport in 5 hr. and 49 min. The aircraft averaged a speed of Mach 0.84. The second leg involved a 7-hr., 7-min. flight covering 3,449 nm from Dubai to Hong Kong International Airport, averaging Mach 0.82.
