Based in Washington, D.C., Bill covers business aviation and advanced air mobility for Aviation Week Network. A former newspaper reporter, he has also covered the airline industry, military aviation, commercial space and unmanned aircraft systems. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2017, he worked for Aviation International News and Avionics and Rotor & Wing magazines.
Bill was the recipient of the National Business Aviation Association's Gold Wing Award in 2017 and 2022 for his reporting on drones and advanced air mobility, respectively, and in 1997 received the British Royal Aeronautical Society Aerospace Journalist of the Year award in the business aviation category. He is the author of the book, Enter The Drones, The FAA and UAVs in America, published in 2016.
Southwest Airlines has established a multipath career program to train ab initio, collegiate, military and employee candidates to become first officers with the airline.
The US mainline airline fleet is 85% compliant with the FAA’s approaching deadline to equip aircraft for automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) Out position reporting, a “compliance snapshot” presented to the NextGen Advisory Committee (NAC) reveals.
The U.S. mainline airline fleet is 85% compliant with the FAA’s approaching deadline to equip aircraft for automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) Out position reporting, a “compliance snapshot” presented to the NextGen Advisory Committee (NAC) reveals.
