About Us
The award winning Arabian Aerospace magazine is now in its eleventh 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.
The Team:
Editor-in-Chief
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.
Alan 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.
Alan is also a private pilot.
Mark Brown is a director of TIMES Aerospace Ltd 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.
David is responsible for the data and online editorial content management of the Arabian Aerospace award-winning news websites.
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.
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.
Technology and Space editor
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.
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.
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