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.
Satcom Direct is here at NBAA with plenty of news, part of it a brand relaunch. To represent “a growing and evolving company and offerings” there is both a new logo and a new brand identity, which simply will be SD. To illustrate its expansion beyond satcom-based services, it will begin using the label “SD Global Connectivity.” “Updating our visual identity and adding a new descriptor ‘Global Connectivity’ more clearly reflects our mission and what we do as a company,” explained director of marketing Jana Rucker.
AMAC is one of the busier cabin completion, refurbishment and MRO centers with three completion projects currently under way as well as three refurbishments.
