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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NBAA applauded the passage of three measures by the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee that will “enhance innovation, improve medication transparency for pilots and air traffic controllers, and accelerate the safe deployment of advanced air mobility aircraft in the National Airspace System.”&nbsp;The bills will now move to the Senate floor for evaluation by the entire chamber.
The first of the bipartisan bills, the Aviation Medication Transparency Act, calls on the FAA to publish and maintain a list of medications that pilots and air traffic controllers can safely take while maintaining their medical certification, removing the guesswork about prescription and over-the-counter medications.
Looking to streamline the FAA’s type certification process for advanced air mobility vehicles, the Aviation Innovation and Global Competitiveness Act aims to improve transparency, predictability, and accountability in certifying emerging aviation technologies.
Lastly, the Supersonic Aviation Modernization Act instructs the agency to lift the ban on civil supersonic flight over U.S. territory, permitting speeds of more than Mach 1 if no sonic boom reaches the ground.
NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen noted that his organization strongly supports all three measures.&nbsp;“We appreciate the committee’s bipartisan leadership in advancing these bills and look forward to working with Congress to move them to the Senate floor and ultimately to the president’s desk,” he said.

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