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.
One month after the most devastating hurricane ever to make landfall in the Florida Panhandle, area airports, businesses and homes are still digging out.
FlightAware has launched “Ready to Taxi,” a new service for business aviation operators that provides information and tracking for aircraft movements on the ground.
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association and the National Business Aviation Association (AOPA and NBAA) have appealed to Santa Monica, California, Mayor Ted Winterer and the Santa Monica City Council to reject plans for the removal of 750 ft. of “excess” pavement at each end of the Santa Monica Municipal Airport’s 3,500 ft. runway.
