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

Aircraft

A350XWB Cabin Customization Process

The European manufacturer hopes to limit cabin furnishing options for the twin-aisle A350XWB twinjet in order to keep final-assembly lines flowing.
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Airbus A350 Flight-test Logbook

Airbus expects to have received EASA type certification for the A350 by the end of September.
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Embraer Firms Up E2 Cabin Design

After Embraer completed its initial design review for the E2 it is showing the new E-Jet variant’s cabin at Farnborough.
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Embraer's E190-E2 Cruises Through Joint Definition Phase

Development of the Embraer E190-E2 has progressed through joint design definition.
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Airports

London Biggin Hill Aims To Increase Traffic

New GPS approach will help accessibility at London’s Biggin Hill Airport, as it view to increase its share of bizav traffic.
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Analysts Predict Slow Rebound For Europe

Bizav forecasts suggest more flying in Europe, but less interest in purchasing new aircraft.
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Airbus Pushes for Standardization in A350 Interiors

Airbus says fewer customization options will aid in production efficiency and help boost aftermarket values.
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