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.
I AM WRITING THIS in a 12th floor room of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in the fair city of Montreal (five floors below John and Yoko's "Bed-in for Peace" suite, for you Summer of Lovers). I drove here a few days ago (DayJet doesn't serve Danbury, Conn. yet) to attend the annual Canadian Business Aviation Association gathering and visit Bombardier.
Beaumont, Kan. An attorney by training, hotel man by career and airplane addict by choosing, Craig in 2001 suspended the rules of business that have moved him to accumulate and shed large properties over the years and purchased a tiny, shuttered century-and-a-half-old establishment adjacent to a 2,600-foot grass strip in the barely-there-burg of Beaumont. 1 A dilapidated, 11-room hotel in the middle of nowhere. Why did you do it?
LOCATED AT SASKATCHEWAN'S lateral midpoint, some 50 miles west of Regina and about 115 due north of Scobey, Mont., Moose Jaw is home not only to the Canadian Forces Snowbirds, the country's precision aerobatic team, but also to the NATO Flying Training in Canada (NFTC), drawing contractors and student fighter pilots from the United States, Europe and Canada. The base has grown to become the largest employer in the region.
