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.
General aviation as an industry and as a community was overwhelmingly U.S.-centric since coming into its own after World War II. The airplanes were designed, built and used in the U.S. and the CEO’s name often appeared on the roof: Piper, Beech, Lear, Bell, Grumman and Cessna (well, Clyde’s nephew anyway), among them.
When the young man got off the airplane, his mother hugged him lovingly, his brother gave him a familial shove, and then both stepped away alarmed, and a bit nauseous. The kid stank. More than that, he reeked in a special, terrible way, the noxious animal odor oozing from his pores seeming to have stewed within for weeks. And it had.
