About Us
The award winning Arabian Aerospace magazine is now in its ninth year of publishing, having rapidly achieved its target of becoming the premier title for the entire aerospace industry across the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey.
Our mission is to provide news and features about the whole industry and its activities in the region for those people in the industry whether they are based in the region or have an interest in the business in the region.
We also set out to report on global aerospace developments that could have an impact on operators, airlines or air forces in the MENA region.
ARABIAN AEROSPACE magazine is published quarterly and features a top-rate editorial team from the Middle East, Europe and the United States supported by specialist contributors worldwide.
In addition we publish a Daily Online News Service at www.arabianaerospace.aero, a weekly Newsletter for all subscribers, Arabian Aerospace TV, our SHOW BUSINESS Airshow dailies for events such as the Dubai Airshow, Bahrain International Airshow, Aero Expo Marrakech, MEBAA etc and others.
In 2012, the Arabian Aerospace team won the coveted best multi media title in the Global Aviation Media Awards against major publishers from across the world.
The Team:
Editor-in-Chief
Alan Peaford
Alan Peaford is a former senior editor of the Arab Times in Kuwait and the Gulf Daily News in Bahrain. He edited Flight International’s Flight Daily News for 17 years and has won an Aerospace Journalist of the Year award on five occasions. He is the author of a best selling guide to business aircraft and has written for many newspapers, trade magazines and corporate publications around the world. He is currently president of the British Association of Communicators in Business, a winner of a diploma of honour by the Federation of European Editors and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts. He is also a private pilot.
Publisher & Editorial Consultant
Mark Brown
Mark Brown is a director of the TIMES Group with a passion for aerospace and a great love of the Middle East which has seen him take a hands-on role as consulting editor and publisher of the magazine and the other services that run alongside the title.Deputy Editor
Marcelle Nethersole
ella@aerocomm.co.uk
Marcelle Nethersole (pictured left) is a travel writer who has worked in Europe, the US, South America, the Middle East and Asia with book and magazine publishers.
Online Content Manager
David Winship Evans
david.evans@arabianaerospace.aero
David is responsible for the data and online editorial content management of the Arabian Aerospace award-winning news websites,Joing the company as part of a community rehabilitation scheme he has risen through the ranks and maintains first class relationships with many of the leading aviation and defence companies that operate across the Middle East and Africa. His career development has been outstanding.
When he is not covering the news and updating informnation at the world's major airshows he can be found in the seedier parts of North London watching Tottenham Hotspur, an aspirational but irritating footbal team.
Air Transport Editor
Alan Dron
alan.dron@arabianaerospace.aero
Alan Dron wrote on aviation matters for Scotland's national daily newspaper and has been a member of the team producing Flight Daily News at international airshows for 25 years
Alan Dron wrote on aviation matters for Scotland's national daily newspaper and has been a member of the team producing Flight Daily News at international airshows for 25 years Defence Editor
Jon Lake
Jon Lake has been a full time aviation writer since 1984, and has twice won the coveted Defence Journalist of the Year in the global Aviation Journalist of the Year Awards.
North America Correspondent
James Wynbrandt
James Wynbrandt is a multiengine instrument-rated pilot and aircraft owner, James Wynbrandt writes for aviation publications including Smithsonian Air & Space, Aviation International News, Business Jet Traveler, Plane & Pilot and Sport Aviation, and has written about aviation for The New York Times, Forbes, Fortune and Barron’s, among other publications. Television writing credits include Speedvision’s Wonderful World of Flying series. He is the author of A Brief History of Saudi Arabia (now in its second edition), a Brief History of Pakistan, and Flying High, an account of the launch of JetBlue, among other books. He studied Arabic and Middle Eastern history and culture at New York University’s Hagop Kavorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, and lives in New York City.
Technology and Space editor
Steve Nichols
Steve Nichols is a journalist specialising in space and technology. He has covered space shuttle launches in Florida and regularly writes about both European manned and unmanned space missions.
Picture Editor
Ian Billinghurst
Ian Billinghurst has worked for UK national titles including the Daily Express, Mirror and Mail as well as the BBC before venturing into the corporate communications market – and the aviation media. He now heads the BillyPix agency with its team of associate photographers all over the world and is responsible for many of the pictures in daily papers at the Middle East industry events and exhibitions.
Chief Sub Editor
Steve Knight
Steve Knight has worked for more than 40 years as a journalist in local, regional and national newspapers. He was acting deputy chief sub-editor of the Bristol Evening Post until 1989, when he became editor of Railnews – the British Rail staff newspaper. He was later part of the team that launched the Police Guardian newspaper in the mid 1990s. He also worked for many years with British Transport Police in Bristol, Avon & Somerset Police and in the defence sector with, among others, Qinetiq, Airbus and Rolls-Royce Defence Aerospace. He is a fellow of the Institute of Internal Communication.
SALES CONTACTS
Directors:
Mark Brown
Kevin Sammon
Advertising Managers:
Grant Lee
David Evans
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