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.
Pratt & Whitney Canada's PT6 has so dominated the turboprop market across so wide a power range for so long, it seems almost sovereign. The PT6 is ubiquitous and global, with around 40,000 produced in the past 40 years. Yes, Honeywell and Rolls-Royce offer alternatives, but for a variety of business and technical reasons, they failed to jostle, let alone unseat the king.
A few have tried, but almost all have failed—airlines' flirtations with business jet ventures, that is. Pan Am, Fed Ex, American Airlines and most recently, Lufthansa, were all involved in business jet sales, service or direct operations, but all exited the activity eventually. And who can forget Avolar, United Airlines' controversial fractional jet program, which it aborted before first flight?
The obituaries correctly noted he was a two-term governor of Rhode Island; a decorated World War II B-17 pilot; a Harvard Law School graduate who was a U.S. attorney in Washington before going into private practice; and then president/CEO of the Outlet Co., which he turned into a major broadcaster.
