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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Curt Epstein

Howard Janotta, 86, a corporate pilot for more than 30 years, died on November 22 at his home in San Antonio. He was a B-24 pilot during World War II, after which he played professional basketball for two years before embarking on a 43-year career as a corporate pilot. Janotta flew for the Arabian American Oil (Aramco) flight department for 16 years and then helped found AT&amp;T’s flight ­department, where he served for 20 more years. From 1993 until 2000, he was ­actor John Travolta’s pilot.

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Howard Janotta, 86, a corporate pilot for more than 30 years, died on November 22 at his home in San Antonio.

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