A lifelong aviation enthusiast who joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in 2007, Curt came to&nbsp;the publication&nbsp;from the broadcast industry where he was a national science and technology television reporter and producer. He writes on the FBO field, aviation finance, and sustainable aviation and occasionally contributes to&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;sister publication&nbsp;Business Jet Traveler. Curt was a member of the AINtv reporting staff that won the 2008 Aerospace Journalist of the Year award for Best Airshow Daily. That same year, he was a finalist for another AJOYA award. He earned an AJOYA for Best Business Aviation Submission in 2018 and was a finalist in that category in 2021. He received the National Air Transportation Association’s&nbsp; Aviation Journalist Award in 2012 and won a Pegasus Sapphire Business Aviation Award for outstanding journalism in 2021.
Before joining AIN, Curt worked with&nbsp;Consumer Reports’ television division, CRTV, and for several local television news staffs. An honors graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he earned a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University in 1995. Curt lives in New York State with his wife and two young sons.

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For more than 38 years, AIN contributor Jack Elliott, an award-winning journalist and member of the New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame, chronicled aviation in New Jersey and beyond through his weekly column in the Sunday Star-Ledger. Now he has compiled a collection of his favorite columns in book form. Adventures in Flying, from Alexander and Ray Publishers, takes the reader on a wide-ranging, sometimes nostalgic tour of human-interest stories spanning the history of flight.
Covering subjects that range from Concorde to ultralights, from seaplanes to skydiving, Elliott’s columns have profiled aviation icons such as Jimmy Doolittle and Bill Lear, as well as lesser lights in the aviation sky, particularly those with New Jersey connections. Rather than list them chronologically, Elliott has grouped his columns by subject matter into several categories such as “The Old Timers,” “Look Out Below” and “The Movers and Shakers.” A chapter titled “The Gutsiest Pilots” examines those who have overcome disabilities in pursuit of their dreams of flight.
While the book does feature the occasional black-and-white picture, regrettably they serve in most cases as a source of distraction rather than information, due to their poor computer scan quality. But the main attraction remains the articles, which are short, informative and in most cases provide unique snapshots of the times of which they were written.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
Adventures in Flying, by Jack Elliott; Alexander and Ray Publishers; 516 pages; price $29.95; ISBN 978-0-615-13294-

Adventures in Flying

For more than 38 years, AIN contributor Jack Elliott, an award-winning journalist and member of the New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame, chronicled avi

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