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.
Riding a wave of expansion over the past year, Canadian cabin completion, refurbishment and maintenance, repair and overhaul specialist Flying Colours has begun hiring engineers in preparation for an accelerated move into special mission cabin outfitting and reconfiguration.
After seven years focused on cabin completion of Airbus single-aisle aircraft for executive and head-of-state transport, Airbus Corporate Jet Center said last week it will add wide-body ACJ330s and ACJ340s to its outfitting repertoire.
Cabin completion and MRO specialist AMAC Aerospace celebrated its seventh year in Basel, Switzerland, with the impending completion of a Middle East head-of-state BBJ747-8i and the construction of a new hangar.
