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.
Lufthansa Technik has won a 787-8 VIP cabin contract which will be the first cabin completion project of the VIP aircraft type for the Hamburg, Germany-based completion and maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) specialist.
After all, shouldn’t dining en route to Paris be no less elegant than the $60 million private jet that is whisking its passengers across the Atlantic at Mach 0.85?
