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.
A chain of related announcements have served to focus attention on the capability and future of the Hawker 400. One of the more popular light jets, the aircraft began life in the late 1970s as the Mitsubishi MU-300 Diamond and was renamed the Beechjet 400 after Beech Aircraft acquired the program the following decade. It then became the Hawker 400 after the merger with that marque.
The chill that has left business and general aviation shivering for the past couple of years seems to be easing, at least in sunny Torrance, Calif., home of Robinson Helicopter Co. President and CEO Kurt Robinson says that whereas some customers last year were unable to obtain financing and defaulted on orders, “All that’s gone now. We’re back to regular production, which is great.”
An attention-grabber in the Citation Ten is its instrument panel (below), which centers on three 14-in. LCD displays supplemented with four touch-screen control panels, an all-new capability. The integrated system’s laundry list of features includes synthetic vision, electronic charts, TCAS II, dual FMSs, solid-state weather radar with turbulence detection and vertical scan, ADS-B Out, and data link.
