Kirby Harrison is a freelance writer for The Weekly of Business Aviation, Business & Commercial Aviation and others in the Informa publishing chain. Harrison joined the Navy in 1962 and spent 20 years in the service, virtually all of it as a photojournalist, traveling from small islands in the South Pacific to Vietnam to the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon. When Harrison retired from the Navy, he went back to college and graduated in 1971 from Syracuse University with a Bachelor's Degree in Photojournalism. Along the way, he spent two years as a news photographer at the Daily Press & Times Herald in Newport News, Virginia, and three years working for Studio Sebe in Nice, France as a photographer. More recently, before retiring, he worked nearly 20 years for Naval Aviation News.
Jet Aviation St. Louis comes to NBAA 2015 with an agreement to certify and install the SmartSky 4G LTE-based Internet system on a Global Express platform.
Those who visit PATS Air Services’ booth Tuesday will find a surprise at the same booth today as the company unveils the freshly rebranded Aloft AeroArchitects.
With the court decision in October to recognize fractional operator Flexjet and sister company Flight Options as a single carrier under parent company Directional Aviation, Flexjet is growing fast as it adds pilots and planes under its own brands and service offerings.
