Ian Goold
Senior correspondent

Aviation International News senior correspondent Ian Goold has been involved in aerospace since 1964 and in aviation media for more than 40 years. He enjoyed a 20-year career at Flight International magazine, where he was latterly air-transport editor before turning freelance in 1993. A winner of the European Regions Airline Association Hank McGonagle award for excellence in aerospace journalism and a Royal Aeronautical Society Aerospace Journalist of the Year global award, he has edited or contributed to aerospace and aviation magazines, special publications, and websites in Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America. Ian entered aerospace as an apprentice at the British Aircraft Corporation at Brooklands (Weybridge), where he worked on production and final assembly lines of the Vickers Super VC10, and BAC One-Eleven , and manufacture of Concorde major sub-assemblies. He subsequently graduated from the BAC Design Training School to work in the airframe structures drawing office (including design of international future projects, such as the Panavia Tornado multi-role combat aircraft) before joining Flight International in 1973. Apart from years of reading aircraft magazines and books, his first direct contact with aviation media had come during the early 1970s when he was involved at Brooklands with the Weybridge Man-powered Aircraft Group, which designed and built the tenth aircraft to fly under purely human power. As an aviation journalist, he has worked at more than  50 of the major biennial global and regional international aerospace industry shows at Le Bourget, Farnborough, Singapore, and Dubai (having missed attending only one "Farnborough" since 1960), plus innumerable NBAA, HAI, (U.S.) AOPA, and EBACE Conventions and ERA Assemblies. His favourite aircraft is the Hawker Hunter, of which – as a schoolboy – he heard hundreds make their first flights from Dunsfold, where also on September 24, 2013, he saw the penultimate landing of the VC10 (happily involving an example of which he had witnessed the maiden takeoff in 1970) a day before the last example made the design's final flight (unless, of course....).

Latest from Ian Goold

Airbus Says Neo Choice Opens New R&D Avenues

The A320neo has bought Airbus time and resources.
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Training and Workforce

Aircare, Training For All

Environment

Expanding Avfuel Aims To Simplify Fuel Supply Lines

Avfuel claims that growing availability of its contract fuel service ensures that corporate flight departments are able to buy fuel at competitive prices.
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Airports

Biggin Hill Gets Under Starter’s Orders for London Olympics

London Biggin Hill Airport, to the southeast of the UK capital, will be in the thick of the action in late July and August
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UK Authorities Defend Their Review of BMI Buy

UK competition authorities have defended their review of the BA acquisition of BMI.
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Aircraft

EASA Mandates Wing Crack Checks for All Airbus A380s

EASA mandates inspection of A380s
Accidents

Recent Period Safest for Airlines in Modern History

Airline accident data shows safest three-month period in modern history.
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Aircraft

Stakes Are High in Contest for Boeing 737 MAX Final Assembly

Washington state must and can win 737 MAX assembly, says Accenture.
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Engines

Rolls-Royce 'Very Pleased' with Trent XWB Engine Tests

Rolls-Royce is pleased with the “very positive” results achieved during testing eight examples of the new Trent XWB engine.

Airbus A350XWB Delay Could Reach 12 Months

Airbus has pushed back the planned first flight of the Airbus A350XWB from late 2012 to the first quarter of 2013.
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Engines

Rolls-Royce Trent XWB Engine Prepped for Flight Tests

Rolls-Royce's Trent XWB engine for the Airbus A350XWB has logged 1,200 hours of ground testing. Soon the engine will begin flight testing.
Aircraft

Rolls Helps Airbus Stretch Range and Payload

Airbus is developing an enhanced A350-1000 variant with “outstanding [increased] payload and long[er] range.