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.
Searchers on Feb. 26 recovered human remains from the scene of the Atlas Air Flight 3591 crash, but flight-data recorders still had not been found three days after the Boeing 767-300 dived steeply into a marsh in Trinity Bay, Texas.
Wing—the drone delivery subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet—was selected by FAA to participate in the agency’s unmanned aircraft system traffic management (UTM) pilot program, the company announced Feb. 25.
Wing—the drone delivery subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet—was selected by FAA to participate in the agency’s unmanned aircraft system traffic management (UTM) pilot program, the company announced Feb. 25.
