Kirby Harrison

Journalist

Summary

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.

Articles

By Kirby Harrison
The new kid on the business aviation block was unveiled Dec. 17 with the rollout of Dassault Aviation’s new Falcon 8X ultra long-range business jet.

By Kirby Harrison
The International Civil Aviation Organization’s Task Force on Risks to Civil Aviation Arising from Conflict Zones (TF-RCZ) concluded its third meeting on Dec. 2 after creating an agenda for assessment for the organization’s 191 member states to consider at the United Nations’ High-Level Safety Conference scheduled for Feb. 2-5, 2015.

By Kirby Harrison
A $1.1 trillion government spending bill signed by President Barack Obama contains good news for the business aviation industry.