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.
Canadian training specialist CAE announced the sale of two Airbus A220-300 full-flight simulators (FFS) and other training devices to JetBlue Airways, bringing to eight the number of A220 FFS it has sold worldwide.
GE Aviation and Auterion of Zurich, Switzerland, have partnered to provide a hardware- and software-based platform for commercial drone operations, the companies announced April 29.
GE Aviation and Zurich-based Auterion have partnered to provide a hardware- and software-based platform for commercial drone operations, the companies announced Apr. 29.