AVIATION WEEK Editorial Team Members

Commercial Aviation Editorial Team Members

Andrew Compart

Andrew is a Senior Editor for AVIATION WEEK covering low-cost carriers, airline distribution and marketing, and other topics. Previously he worked at Travel Weekly covering all aspects of the airline business for nine years. Prior to his tenure with Travel Weekly, Andrew covered military personnel issues for Army, Navy and Air Force Times as a reporter for its Times News Service, and he also covered Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard issues for Air Force Times. Andrew has flown on a 28-hour B-52 bomber training mission, completed Arctic survival training, and reported on-site in Bosnia weeks after the peace treaty was signed. He graduated cum laude from the University of Maryland in College Park with a bachelor's degree in government and politics, and he has received journalism awards for investigative reporting, health reporting, column writing and public service.

Fran Fiorino

Fran is the Senior Editor for Safety and Training. She has been long-time editor of the Airline Outlook column in Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine. The safety beat includes accident coverage, regulatory actions, and developments in the training arena (human and hardware) related to commercial transport and general aviation. Fran also covers general aviation issues and writes pilot reports on single-engine aircraft. Previous incarnations include Flying magazine Special Features Editor, and Time magazine News Editor-NY Bureau. A native of New York, she attended New York University and taught The Christophers Leadership course (similar to Toastmasters) in New York City for five years. Fran holds a private pilot license (and is almost-but-not-quite instrument-rated).

Jens Flottau

Jens is the European Bureau Chief in Frankfurt, Germany. Prior to joining AVIATION WEEK, he started writing on air transport in 1992 as a contributor to Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Germany's largest daily newspaper. He has since published stories in various daily newspapers, magazines and trade publications. He frequently appears on radio and TV shows commenting on industry matters and is one a host of the ITB Aviation Day, an industry conference held annually in Berlin. In 2003, he received the Hugo Junkers award of the German aviation press for his coverage of the Fairchild Dornier insolvency. In 2007 and 2008, he was ranked third and second among the country's top travel/air transport writers by the Travel Industry Club. Jens studied Middle Eastern studies and has a degree in journalism by the Munich School of Journalism.

Mike Mecham

Mike is the Northern California Bureau Chief. Mike joined AVIATION WEEK in March 1987 as a Congressional Editor in the Washington, D.C. He went on to become Bonn Bureau Chief in 1990 and the Asia Bureau Chief based in Hong Kong in 1993. After return to the U.S. in 1997 he continued to head the Asian coverage for another decade. Besides continuing to contribute to the Asian coverage, Mike writes about commercial aircraft and engine production. He regularly covers the work of California-based satellite manufacturers and space research institutions. Prior to joining AVIATION WEEK, Mike was a congressional correspondent and space/science writer for the Gannett News Service. He received his B.A. in political science from Claremont Men's College (now Claremont McKenna College) and an M.A. in journalism from The American University in Washington, D.C.

James Ott

James is a Senior Editor and seasoned aviation journalist with more than three decades of service with AVIATION WEEK. A specialist in air transport, he has reported on the airline industry around the world and the governments that regulate it. In 2002 he was recognized by the Royal Aeronautical Society and named Aerospace Journalist of the Year and winner of the Bombardier Air Transport Prize. In 2007 he won the RAeS prize in the aerospace propulsion category for an article on synthetic fuel. James is the co-author with analyst Raymond E. Neidl of Airline Odyssey, The Airline Industry's Turbulent Flight Into The Future, published by McGraw-Hill in 1995, used as a textbook in several post-graduate programs. He also wrote Jets, Airliners of the Golden Age, and Airlife Shrewsbury, England, 1993. James taught news writing and the history of journalism on the college level. Prior to joining AVIATION WEEK in 1978 he served as director of public relations for The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He earned B.A. degree in English Literature from Thomas More College, Crestview Hills, Ky., and a master's degree in communications arts from Xavier University in Cincinnati.

Adrian Schofield

Adrian is a Senior Air Transport Editor covering commercial aviation industry issues. He was the only journalist invited to accompany U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters during her official trip to Beijing. Prior to joining McGraw-Hill in 2002, he was editor World Airline News (PBI Media), and Inside FAA (Inside Washington Publishers). Before he focused on aviation news, he worked for two Texas daily newspapers, the Dallas Morning News and the Beaumont Enterprise, and covered major state policy issues in Texas legislature. Originally from New Zealand, he immigrated to the United States in 1998. He began his career as a reporter at the Opotiki News, then went on to be the sports editor for the Rodney Times, and graduated from Auckland University with Bachelor of Arts in 1992. Adrian's freelance work appears regularly in several of New Zealand's major daily newspapers.

Darren Shannon

Darren is a Senior Editor for the commercial aviation industry with insider knowledge of the aviation industry and 15 years of international journalism experience. Shannon is a former managing editor for the Americas at Flight International and a U.S. editor for online newswire Air Transport Intelligence. During his career as a journalist he has also held senior editing and writing positions at Travel Agent Magazine, World Airline News, Middle East Economic Digest, Fish Farming International and Retail Week. In addition, he worked as a manager of media relations for Northwest Airlines.

Madhu Unnikrishnan

Madhu is an editor for AVIATION WEEK focused on commercial aviation. Before coming to AVIATION WEEK in 2004, he worked for a consulting firm and a Web start up. He graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University in 1994 with BA in History and Japanese, and completed his Master's of Science with honors from the London School of Economics in 1998.

Benet Wilson

Benet is the airports/security editor for AVIATION WEEK. She has been a trade journalist for 17 years, covering issues as diverse as aviation, employment and training, welfare reform, economic development and agriculture/agribusiness. She also spent five years in senior corporate communications positions at Delta Air Lines, Rolls-Royce North America and Mesa Air Group. Benet received a degree in Broadcast Journalism from American University, and graduate courses at George Washington University in Publication Management & Design. She is on the board of directors for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Aviation Communication Program and a member of the National Association of Black Journalists.

Alfhild Winder

Al is a Managing Editor for AVIATION WEEK with expertise developed from more than 30 years in the commercial aviation industry. Before she focused on aviation, she was an instructor in French and German languages at Northeastern University in Chicago. Al graduated with B.A. and M.A. from the University of Michigan.

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Business Aviation Editorial Team Members

Dick Aarons

Dick Aarons is Safety Editor of Business & Commercial Aviation and has served in all editorial positions at Business & Commercial Aviation including Editor-In-Chief. He holds a Commercial pilot license with type ratings in the Citation Series and the Falcon 900. He has done graduate studies in aviation/aerospace safety systems and accident investigation at Embry-Riddle and is a graduate of the FAA's accident investigation school. His safety articles and "Cause and Circumstance" column have earned many awards including two distinguished service awards from the Flight Safety Foundation and as Aerospace Journalist of the Decade. He is a member of the International Society of Air Safety Investigators and the International Association of Arson Investigators.

David Esler

David Esler is a contributing editor for Business & Commercial Aviation. David is a former U.S. Army officer and a Commercial pilot with Instrument and Multi-Engine Ratings. He has traveled throughout the world reporting on business and general aviation and has been accorded numerous acknowledgements for his work, including five Aerospace Journalist of the Year awards, two NBAA Gold Wing awards, and two Aviation/Space Writers Association Awards of Excellence. His beats have covered the gamut in domestic and international operations, including safety, technology, charter and fractional ownership, engines and maintenance, regulatory and air traffic control issues, and since 2001, aviation security.

Mike Gamauf

Mike Gamauf is a contributing editor for Business & Commercial Aviation. Mike has an A.S in Aviation Maintenance Technology, a B.S. in Professional Aeronautics, and is currently completing a Masters of Aeronautical Science Degree in Aviation Safety. He is a licensed A&P Mechanic, IA, and Helicopter Pilot. He began his aviation career as an Army UH-1 crew chief and now includes over two decades of experience troubleshooting and repairing large and medium civil helicopters. Mike writes the Director of Maintenance Notebook, and is currently working with a major airframe manufacturer developing a civil Fly-by-Wire Helicopter.

Fred George

Fred is a senior editor with Business & Commercial Aviation. Fred is AVIATION WEEK's aircraft evaluation specialist, having flown left seat in virtually every turbine-powered business jet produced in the past two decades. He's now flown more than 150 individual aircraft models ranging fromthe Piper J-3 Cub up through Boeing and Airbus single-aisle jetliners, having logged more than 5,700 hours of flight time. He's earned an Airline Transport Pilot certificate and four jet aircraft type ratings, and he remains an active pilot. Fred also specializes in avionics, aircraft systems and pilot technique reports. Prior to joining AVIATION WEEK, he was an FAA designated pilot examiner [CE-500], instrument flight instructor and jet charter pilot. He also is former US Naval Aviator who made three cruises to the western Pacific while flying the McDonnell-Douglas F-4J Phantom II. Fred has won numerous aviation journalism awards and serves as a Director of the San Diego Air & Space Museum.

Kent Jackson

Kent Jackson is an aviation attorney, author, and a type-rated Airline Transport Pilot with flight experience in Part 91 and 135 operations. He is a partner in the law firm of Jackson, Wade & Blanck, L.L.C. and practices solely in aviation law. He served on the Fractional Ownership Aviation Rulemaking Committee and the Part 135/125 Aviation Rulemaking Committee. He is the author of Jeppesen's Federal Aviation Regulations Explained book series, and has authored the "Point of Law" column since 1998.

George Larson

George Larson is a Senior Editor for Business & Commercial Aviation. After serving as an artillery captain in Vietnam, Larson, a Harvard graduate, invested his savings in flying lessons to get his Private ticket, and later acquired advanced licenses and ratings under the GI Bill. He began his publishing career with Flying magazine and followed that freelancing for periodicals covering aviation, motorcycles, and related performance-oriented arenas. He also authored The Blimp Book and Fly On Instruments, a piloting primer. He was a staff editor at Business & Commercial Aviation when in 1985 the Smithsonian offered him the opportunity to create and oversee a new magazine to complement its popular National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C., which he accepted. He then served as editor of Smithsonian's award-winning Air & Space for 20 years.

Jessica Salerno

Jessica is Executive Editor of Business & Commercial Aviation magazine. She started as Editor of ShowNews Online, AVIATION WEEK's on-site trade show daily published at the Paris Air Show, NBAA Annual Convention, Singapore Air Show and at other significant aerospace gatherings. Jessica has worked in television production and management consulting. While not yet a licensed pilot, Ms. Salerno has received flight instruction and has soloed.

Robert A. Searles

Robert A. Searles is a contributing editor for Business & Commercial Aviation and has been affiliated with the magazine since 1981. He specializes in stories on aviation history and previously owned aircraft. His work has earned him honors as an Aerospace Journalist of the Year. From 1986 to 1992 he also served as editor in chief of AVIATION WEEK's Show News, a daily publication produced at major air shows worldwide. Since 1995, he has been managing editor of Aviation Week Custom Media, which produces a variety of special editorial projects.

Jim Swickard

Jim Swickard is Intelligence Editor for Business & Commercial Aviation. Jim spent many years in corporate communications at Rockwell Collins and FlightSafety International prior to founding a corporate communications agency serving aviation, high technology and financial service clients. He is a retired Air National Guard pilot, having flown the O-2A, F-100D and A-7D. He is a 4,400-hour Commercial pilot with Single- and Multi-engine, Instrument and Glider ratings.

Pat Veillette

Pat Veillette is a contributing editor for Business & Commercial Aviation. In his professional piloting career, Pat Veillette has flown for the military, as well as for EMS, aerial fire fighting, air taxi, freight, scheduled airline, flight test and major fractional operators. He has over 13,500 flight hours in more than 100 makes and models of aircraft, ranging from balloons and rotorcraft to seaplanes and business jets. A 1983 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy with a B.S. in aeronautical engineering, he also has advanced graduate degrees in mechanical and civil engineering. His engineering work specializes in flight-test, accident investigation and human factors, and has received numerous awards from the National Research Council, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Royal Aeronautical Society.

John Wiley

John Wiley is a contributing editor for Business & Commercial Aviation. John flew O2As and KC-135s for the U.S. Air Force and later worked as an instructor and charter pilot flying Model 20 Series Learjets and a Citation I. After years captaining Airbus A320s for USAir, he returned to business aviation and now flies a Citation II. An ATP, his Type Ratings include the Boeing 707/720, 727, 737, 757 and 767, Airbus 320, DC-9 and CitationJet. He has logged in excess of 19,000 flight hours, some of the most challenging being in his own 1946 Swift. His writing for Business & Commercial Aviation has twice earned him Aerospace Journalist of the Year awards.

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Defense Editorial Team Members

Douglas Barrie

Douglas is the AVIATION WEEK London Bureau Chief and has been a defense and aerospace journalist for the past 20 years, and a recipient of the C.P. Robertson Memorial Trophy. Prior to joining AVIATION WEEK, he worked for Jane's Defence Weekly as deputy news editor, Flight International as defense editor, and Defense News as European editor. Douglas is an honors graduate of Edinburgh University in Scotland.

Amy Butler

Amy is the senior Pentagon editor for AVIATION WEEK and has flown on a variety of military aircraft since joining the staff, including a 9-hr. HH-60G Pave Hawk search-and-rescue mission after Hurricane Katrina, and MV-22 Osprey and F/A-18F Super Hornet. Prior to joining AVIATION WEEK, she was the Pentagon bureau chief for Defense Daily covering multiple services programs, the defense budget and DoD dealings with Congress. She worked as the managing editor of Inside the Air Force covering Air Force procurement and policy issues. Prior to her work at ITAF, she was the The Daily Sun's military reporter in Warner Robins, Ga., where she participated in a two-week media trip to Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, and she reported on Air Force activities supporting the no-fly zone over Iraq. Amy studied English Literature and History at Mercer University in Macon, GA and took a term at Oxford University, England.

Bettina Chavanne

Bettina is a Pentagon reporter for AVIATION WEEK, with a focus on helicopters and ground vehicles. She has also covered national security, space, and maritime domain awareness issues in-depth. Her editorial career includes being an associate editor with Air & Space/Smithsonian, and a freelance writer focused on the business aviation industry. Her work has been featured in Professional Pilot magazine, C4ISR Journal, and Business Jet Traveler. Bettina was previously the press liaison at Dassault Falcon Jet, a corporate business jet manufacturer. She is bilingual in French and English, and worked on numerous translation projects between Dassault Aviation's French home office and the civil aviation headquarters at Teterboro Airport, New Jersey. Bettina is a graduate of Smith College with a degree in American Studies and Political Economy.

Michael Fabey

Michael is a defense reporter specializing in Defense Department contract analysis and investigative reporting. Prior to working for AVIATION WEEK, he reported on military matters for Defense News and mainstream newspapers from Newport News, Va., to Savannah, GA. Before focusing on defense issues, he lived in Brazil, and worked for a variety of publications including The Economist and O. Estado de S. Paulo. He has won national, state and regional journalism awards and is a frequent panel speaker for Investigative Reporters & Editors on military investigations.

Dave Fulghum

David is senior military editor at Aviation Week & Space Technology specializing in operations, intelligence, unmanned aircraft and electronics. David is the only journalist to have flown several key intelligence-gathering aircraft including Rivet Joint, Cobra Ball, Compass Call, Senior Scout, F-4G Wild Weasel and EP-3E. He was involved in military operations in Bolivia, Nicaragua, Honduras, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, Qatar, Bahrain, Afghanistan, Iraq and the North Arabian Sea. David has been cited eight times by the Royal Aeronautical Society and three times by the Aviation Writers Association for editorial excellence and is the author of three books on the Vietnam War. He has an undergraduate degree in journalism and continued graduate work in military history at Texas A&M University and diplomatic history at Georgetown University.

Alexey Komarov

Alexey Komarov is AVIATION WEEK's contributing editor in Moscow, covering the Russian air transport and aerospace industry, as well as defense equipment and policy issues. He also works for AVIATION WEEK's Russian affiliate Air Transport Observer. Alexey previously was an engineer at the Sukhoi design bureau, where he worked on the Su-27 and did early design work on the forward-swept wing fighter demonstrator, which became the S-37.

Paul McLeary

Paul is a senior editor covering technology and global defense issues. Prior to joining AVIATION WEEK, he served as a staff writer for the Columbia Journalism Review, for which he reported from Iraq, as well as from New Orleans. He has written about the media, politics and military and international affairs for Foreign Policy magazine, Los Angeles Times, Center for American Progress, The Forward, Mother Jones, the New York Sun, Salon, the Guardian UK, New York Observer, the Weekly Standard, CBS.com, and the Christian Science Monitor. He has been quoted and his work discussed by the Council on Foreign Relations, the New York Times, Der Spiegel, USA Today and the AP, and has appeared on NPR's Day to Day.

Sean Meade

Sean Meade is the Community Manager for Defense at AVIATION WEEK, including responsibilities as Web Editor for all Defense content and overseeing the popular Ares weblog. Sean has been active in the world of weblogs for over 8 years, most recently as a webmaster and designer for various defense-related sites. Sean is especially interested in the role of the military in helping the poorest countries in the world to rise out of poverty. He has a BA in Philosophy from Wartburg College and an M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary-Charlotte.

Andy Nativi

Andy is an Italian correspondent for AVIATION WEEK. Andy is also Editor in Chief of the Italian monthly magazine RID, military contributing editor of the daily Il Giornale and performs work as a defense expert for national and international television and radio. Previously he was the Italian correspondent for Flight International and began his career writing for the Italian Air Force magazine. He has been an air power lecturer at the Italian Air Force war college, carried out research activities on behalf of the Italian MoD Military Center for Strategic Studies, written several books on defense issues, and contributed to military sections in several encyclopedias. During his career Andy was embedded in the Balkans, and Afghanistan, and "attached" to Army, Air Force and Naval forces to get first-hand information on doctrinal, operational and technical issues. He has "hands-on" experience with weapons systems/platforms, ranging from handguns to fighter aircraft and helicopters to submarines.

Bill Sweetman

Bill is Editor in Chief for Defense Technology and an aerospace journalist for 35 years. Prior to joining AVIATION WEEK, he contributed to most of the industry's leading trade publications and has published more than 30 books. He is frequently cited as an authority on technical issues - stealth technology in particular - by US and international media. One of Bill's books was the subject of a high-priority translation effort by the Soviet GRU technical intelligence service, and his work is heavily cited in a declassified CIA report on media coverage of stealth. Bill was a consultant to an Emmy-winning PBS documentary on the Joint Strike Fighter competition, and was invited to participate in AIAA's Distinguished Lecturer Program. He received Aerospace Journalist of the Year awards from the Royal Aeronautical Society in 1997, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2007.

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MRO Editorial Team Members

Ed Hazelwood

Ed is the Editor-In-Chief Conferences for AVIATION WEEK and has spent the last 22 years reporting on aviation, aerospace and defense. Currently he organizes aviation/aerospace conferences in the U.S., Europe and Asia. He has been chief correspondent for a national television news program devoted to aviation and wrote extensively on aerospace in Russia and China and ballistic missile defense in the United States. Ed does significant public speaking at aviation and aerospace events and conferences around the world. He has won numerous awards in journalism, including the International Award for Best Continuing Coverage of a news story by the Radio and Television News Directors Association, the Associated Press Regional Broadcast Award for coverage of the Walker espionage case, and Best Individual Effort by a Reporter from Associated Press for uncovering fraud, waste and abuse in Virginia government. Ed received his B.S. Mass Communications from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Elyse Moody

Elyse is the Associate Editor for Overhaul & Maintenance magazine and contributes to AviationWeek.com, AWIN and the MRO Blog. She joined the Washington, DC-based staff in August 2007, after graduating from Washington & Lee University with a M.A. English and Mass Communications.

Lee Ann Tegtmeier

Lee Ann is Managing Editor of Overhaul & Maintenance, has covered aviation maintenance for several years and has been an aviation journalist since 1991. She serves on AVIATION WEEK's MRO Conference editorial boards. In 2002, Lee Ann won the Royal Aeronautical Society's Aerospace Journalist of the Year Award in the maintenance category and has been a finalist in other years. She holds a BA in English and political science from Luther College and an MA in nonfiction writing from Johns Hopkins University.

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Space Editorial Team Members

Jeff Morris

Jeff is an Editor for AVIATION WEEK and has been involved in aerospace journalism for over ten years. Prior to joining AVIATION WEEK, Jeff served as managing editor of Launchspace Magazine and the International Space Industry Report. He received his B.A. from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va.

Mike Taverna

Mike is European Editor covering European space activities and reports on a wide area of other topics, including defense, industry, commercial and business aviation. Prior to coming to AVIATION WEEK, he did translation and technical writing for a Paris-based nuclear engineering firm helped create an English-language aerospace magazine at French Weekly Air & Cosmos that later merged with the Swiss-based monthly Interavia. Mike also spent two years in the Peace Corps in French West Africa that was followed language training at the University of Leningrad (now St Petersburg) and Moscow. Mike graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine in political science and obtained a Masters Degree in translating and interpretation from the University of Paris.

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Editorial Cross-Team Members

Joseph Anselmo

Joe is Senior Business Editor for AVIATION WEEK. Traveling around the globe to report on business-related issues involving the aerospace, defense and airline industries he writes the weekly Market Focus commentary that appears weekly in print and online. He has won two top journalism awards from the Royal Aeronautical Society in London for his aerospace reporting. Prior to joining AVIATION WEEK, Joe has also worked as a managing editor for the Washington Post Co. and as a defense reporter on Capitol Hill for Congressional Quarterly. A graduate of Ohio University, he was elected to three terms on the National Press Club's Board of Governors and served as chairman of that board.

James Asker

Jim is the Executive Editor for AVIATION WEEK and has covered aerospace for more than 20 years winning numerous awards for his reporting and commentary. He directed AVIATION WEEK's coverage of the Columbia space shuttle accident, which was recognized with a 2004 Jesse H. Neal Award, and was finalist in two categories in 2005. And in 2006, Jim won Journalist of the Year honors from the Royal Aeronautical Society and has twice won a McGraw-Hill Corporate Achievement Award. Before joining AVIATION WEEK, Jim began covering space programs as a science reporter for The Houston Post, where he led the paper's prize-winning coverage of the Challenger shuttle accident and its aftermath. Jim is a graduate of Rice University, where he majored in policy sciences. He was a Knight Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At MIT and Harvard, his studies included arms control, the Soviet military and U.S. defense planning and budgeting.

John Doyle

John is the Congressional Editor for AVIATION WEEK covering aerospace, commercial aviation, defense and homeland security issues. Off Capitol Hill, John has reported on airport and border security, counter terrorism technologies, UAVs and the aviation operations of Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Coast Guard. Before joining AVIATION WEEK, he worked 19 years as a broadcast editor, desk supervisor, reporter, business writer and political editor at the Associated Press in Washington, New York and the Midwest, twice winning state Staffer of the Year awards. John graduated from Fordham University.

Christopher Fotos

Chris is Web Managing Editor for AviationWeek.com, leading the editorial development of new media for the group. An aviation journalism veteran, Fotos also ran the media-criticism blog PostWatch until April 2007, garnering links at many of the top political, media and cultural sites. Before that he was managing editor of McGraw-Hill's Homeland Security magazine; editor of AVIATION WEEK's Airports newsletter, congressional correspondent for Aviation Daily, and director of publications and a public relations spokesman for the aviation consulting firm AvMark. Fotos launched his career at Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine in 1981 where he served in many roles including transport editor, covering commercial airlines. Over the course of his career Fotos has been quoted and interviewed in many media outlets including CBS News, CNN, Marketplace Radio, ABC Radio and local television.

Neelam Mathews

Neelam Mathews is a Contributing Editor for AVIATION WEEK, based in New Delhi and covers commercial aviation, defense and space issues in the region. She is also the Editorial Director for MRO Asia 2008. Neelam is President of the Asia Pacific Aviation Media Association, India chapter that holds awareness workshops for aviation media on diverse issues from the Montreal Convention, global environment, and safety to maintenance. She helped organize the first AVIATION WEEK MRO Round Table in Mumbai that resulted in the industry forming an Action MRO committee for the first time to jointly address their issues with the government. A White Paper was published following the RT and shortly thereafter the government increased foreign direct investment in India from 49% to 100%.

Guy Norris

Guy is Senior Editor for AVIATION WEEK. Guy was previously with Flight International, first as technical editor based in the U.K. and most recently as U.S. West Coast editor. Before joining Flight, he was London correspondent for Interavia, part of Jane's Information Group. Guy is a multiple winner of the Royal Aeronautical Society Aerospace Journalist of the Year Award in the Air Transport, Propulsion and Systems/Technology categories, and in 2006 he received the Royal Aeronautical Society Decade of Excellence Award for sustained achievement in aerospace journalism. Amongst other works Guy has authored the aerospace section of a science encyclopedia and co-authored, and produced an educational aviation CD-ROM. Guy has authored more than a dozen books on the air transport industry and been honored with several journalism awards including the several books on the histories of Airbus, Boeing and other airframe manufacturers.

Bradley Perret

Brad is the Asia-Pacific Bureau Chief, providing both a global and local perspective of the evolving business and operations of Aerospace and Defense in the Asia-Pacific region. He is stationed in Beijing, China.

Patrick Toensmeier

Pat is a contributing editor for AVIATION WEEK. He has been writing about manufacturing, materials, technology and design in various fields for more than 25 years, notably plastics. A former editor-in-chief and vice president of Modern Plastics magazine, Pat covered the global plastics business, and continues to write for several industry publications. He writes periodically for other business magazines, and does consulting work. Pat received a BA degree in English Literature from the University of Missouri.

Robert Wall

Robert is the Paris Bureau Chief for AVIATION WEEK. Prior to that, he covered the Pentagon for Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine for 15 years. Robert covered the Kosovo, Afghanistan and 2003 Iraq wars, including participating in various missions on reconnaissance and command and control aircraft, as well as helicopters. Before joining AVIATION WEEK, he compiled and served as managing editor for the Worldwide Directory of Defense Authorities. Robert holds an M.A. in international relations from the George Washington University.

Graham Warwick

Graham Warwick is Senior Technology Editor focusing on engineering and technology across the aerospace industry, with a special focus on identifying technologies of strategic importance to aviation, aerospace and defense. Born and educated in Scotland, he graduated in aeronautical engineering and worked in advanced design at Hawker Siddeley Aviation in the UK before becoming an aerospace journalist. Before joining AVIATION WEEK in April 2008, he spent almost 30 years with weekly aerospace news magazine Flight International, most recently as Americas Editor based in the U.S. Graham is a winner of the Decade of Excellence award for aviation journalism, and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

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