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.
Planning for the future is a necessary role for any manager. It's our job to help minimize the missteps in the imperfect exercise. Not long ago I got a call from a flight department manager, asking whether I, or another staff editor of my choosing, would be willing to address his local aviation group. ``What's the topic?'' I asked. ``The future of aviation,'' he said.
Photograph: Richard T. Santulli CEO, Executive Jet, Inc. A Brooklyn-raised mathematician, Richard Santulli ran Goldman Sachs Leasing Corp. before buying Executive Jet in 1984. Two years later, he began marketing NetJets, the original fractional aircraft ownership program and an idea of his own invention. Berkshire Hathaway acquired Executive Jet in 1998, leaving Santulli, 56, in charge. 1 NetJets has been phenomenally successful, but weren't there some hard times? Santulli: We were in big trouble in 1990.
Movie reviewer David Manning is easy to please. The flicks need only be produced by Sony to win his approval. You see, Manning is the fictitious character concocted by Sony marketers to gush about the company's latest offerings. When the ruse was recently discovered by Newsweek, there were lots of red faces at Sony. Elsewhere in Tinsel Town there was much head scratching since studios know raves are easy to come by -- just invite a no-name reviewer from a no-name publication on an all-expense-paid junket.
