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ABOUT THE EDITORIAL CREW

Aviation News Editor: David Baker

A British citizen, David translated an early love of aviation, flying and space technology into a career that has seen him work all over the world in a variety of professional capacities. From school in Hertfordshire he went to university in the US and obtained a Ph.D in physics before moving laterally to take engineering degrees that took him to NASA and the US aerospace community in the early 1960s. Joining the space programme during the Apollo years he worked to develop advanced concepts for keeping astronauts on the moon for extended periods. This culminated in the last three Apollo flights, each staying three days on the moon for geological exploration using a rover vehicle.
During the 1960s he also worked for a brief period with the US Department of Defence on the Igloo White programme, now a declassified intelligence gathering activity in Vietnam. From there David worked on development of NASA’s Shuttle and, later during the 1980s, to commercialise payloads and to integrate aerospace technologies in Asian countries. After forming one of the UK’s first space consulting companies in 1984 he helped London banking and insurance businesses liaise with Wall Street counterparts and NASA to develop space commercialisation.
Throughout, David has maintained a passion for things with wings and has written several hundred articles and more than 70 books – more than 40 for US school children – on aerospace histories and to encourage careers in science and engineering. David appears regularly on the electronic media and has been editor of Aerospace Review (Smiths’ Industries in-house magazine), Jane’s Aircraft Upgrades and Jane’s Space Directory. His real love is the history of aviation, fuelled as a boy by endless hours reading issues of Air Pictorial, among others!

About the Magazine – Aviation News

So how did Aviation News, in its present format, evolve? Although its origins began as an Air League monthly newsletter called Air in December 1927 and even before it occasional bulletins issued from 1925 are included. Its more recent lineage dates from 1939 when a magazine was established called Air Defence Cadet Corps Gazette. This catered for youngsters who were keen on aviation - much like today’s readers - and wanted to know what was going on in the organisation.
The magazine changed in 1941 to the ATC Gazette when the Air Training Corps was formed. It had a circulation of some 120,000. Air Reserve Gazette followed post-war and this became AIR Pictorial & Air Reserve Gazette in July 1950.
The present name was adopted in isolation in April 1958 when aviation coverage was encompassing both military and civil material, while for a short time in the 1990s, International was added to the title.
In 1991 the magazine was acquired by HPC Publishing and later in the mid 90’s bought Aviation News, at that time a fortnightly. The two were later merged with the popular features from both titles going to make-up the magazine that today is known and loved by aviation enthusiasts across the globe.

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