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.

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Articles

By Kirby Harrison
After the better part of a decade in the doldrums, the general aviation industry is finally expected to improve noticeably next year, according to

By Kirby Harrison
The U.S. House late Dec. 11 voted 219-206 for a $1.1 trillion spending bill that would, in addition to other measures, provide the FAA with $15.73

By Kirby Harrison
The U.K. government will provide $40 million in value-added tax (VAT) refunds to air ambulance charities over the next five years and $11.5 million in