Gregory Polek has spent his entire career in aviation journalism with AIN, starting as a proofreader and assistant to then-managing editor Mary Mahoney in 1995 after serving an internship with&nbsp;New Jersey Monthly&nbsp;magazine and completing his B.A. degree in English/Writing at New Jersey’s William Paterson College. By 1997 Polek accepted a position as an associate editor, covering the regional airline beat for&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;in place of retiring industry veteran Don Anderson. The assignment took Polek across North America and Europe to profile regional airlines varying in size and mission from the likes of floatplane operators Kenmore Air and Chalk’s Ocean Airways to regional jet operators such as SkyWest and American Eagle. Today, in his dual role as Air Transport Editor and International Airshow Editor, Polek writes, edits, and manages AIN’s commercial aviation content while overseeing each of the company’s daily international air show publications in Paris, Farnborough, Singapore, and Dubai. Most recently Polek has assumed oversight of daily coverage of the Helicopter Association International’s annual Heli-Expo convention.

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Jeff Bonner R&amp;D (JBRND) is displaying its pleated window shade for the Bombardier Challenger 650 and Gulfstream G550 this week at NBAA-BACE. Answering a challenge from several U.S. operators to manufacture a more robust alternative to their airplanes’ original shade systems, JBRND created both manual and electric versions of the pleated shade for operators and modification centers.
The San Antonio, Texas-based company has made pleated window shades for Boeing and Airbus airliners since 2013. “JBRND uses an innovative solution for driving the shades that were actually brought to our attention by an NBAA press release in 2012,” said company v-p of sales Ed Harris.
“After visiting the supplier’s NBAA booth and seeing this mechanism, we knew instantly that JBRND could design a better mouse trap. So we connected it up to our proprietary motor controller knowing the industry could use a pleated shade window that did not rely on strings and cables for operation.”
JBRND said it can manufacture 99 percent of any VIP part under one roof, without relying on outside vendors. It offers machining, sheet metal fabrication, composite fabrication, tooling mil-spec finishes, heat treating, and prototype fabrication services.

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