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.
Honeywell has announced its selection as an authorized value-added reseller of the SmartSky Networks’ 4G LTE air-to-ground (ATG) connectivity service for airlines in North America, becoming the first such reseller for airlines.
GE Aviation and Lufthansa Systems this week are demonstrating a “connected” flight management system (FMS) data-sharing capability with electronic flight bags (EFB).
Passenger and cargo airlines around the world are re-routing their flights into and over the Middle East after FAA issued a notice to airmen (NOTAM) banning U.S.-based civil aircraft from flying over the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, citing “inadvertent risk to U.S. civil aviation operations and potential for miscalculation or misidentification.”
