John was editor of Aviation Week's ShowNews for nearly two decades. He retired in 2020. His background in business journalism before joining Aviation Week includes stints at Reuters, the American Banker daily banking newspaper and as business news editor at the Milwaukee Journal and the Cincinnati Enquirer.
A lifelong aviation enthusiast, John has been a private pilot for 34 years and won an award at EAA Oshkosh for his restoration of a vintage British Auster army spotter aircraft. He is currently building a 1920s Staaken Flitzer biplane from plans. John attended his first Farnborough Air Show in 1952, when just eight months old.
LE BOURGET, France - A new vacuum assisted process (VAP) to make carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic structures without the use of an autoclave has been developed by EADS Military Aircraft-Augsburg, already the largest external supplier to Airbus of aerostructures for the A380 airliner.
LE BOURGET, France - Many European aerospace companies, including Safran, which owns Snecma, and Rolls-Royce are keenly awaiting the outcome of a World Trade Organization subsidies dispute between Boeing and Airbus. "It definitely could affect us," Safran executive board chairman Jean-Paul Bechat told Aviation Week's ShowNews.
FARNBOROUGH, England - "We've installed our electric brake system on the Boeing X-45A Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle [UCAV], flown it, and more importantly, landed and stopped," according to a Honeywell official.
