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Mark Bennett Mark Bennett worked for McDonnell Douglas Helicopter/ Boeing for a decade, then in 1999 cofounded an aerospace-only marketing agency. With
30-plus years of photography and design experience serving the aerospace and defense industries, he founded AeroMark Images to shoot and write for both industry and media.
Jen Boyer Jen Boyer is the principal of her own firm, Flying Penguin Communications. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and holds commercial,
instrument, flight instructor, and instrument instructor ratings in helicopters and a private rating in airplanes. She has worked as a professional journalist and marketing communicator in the aviation industry since the early 1990s.
Jill Browning Jill Browning is cochair of the US Helicopter Safety Team’s Helicopter Safety Enhancement 127A, Recognizing and Training Degraded Visual Environment
(DVE) Conditions Conducive to Spatial Disorientation (SD). She is an experienced air safety investigator and the senior manager of aviation safety for Lockheed Martin–Sikorsky. She supports various commercial and military aircraft, including the S-61, S-92, S-76, H-60/S-70, CH-148, and CH-53E. A US Air Force C-130E/J instructor-pilot combat veteran, Jill holds a commercial multi-engine instrument rating and is a CFI/II/MEI (multi-engine instructor).
Greg Calvert Greg Calvert is a former US Army conventional and special operations rotary- and fixed-wing aviator, ATP, instructor pilot, instrument examiner, aviation
mission survivability officer, and aviation safety officer. He is also a trained military and civil aviation accident investigator. He is currently fortunate enough to fly helicopter air ambulance ops with some amazing medical professionals in Virginia and still dabbles in airplanes with his local flying club.
Cade Clark HAI’s VP of government affairs, Cade Clark has directed association advocacy programs for more than 20 years. Growing up, Cade worked at an FBO
where he learned to fly, washed planes, got in the mechanics’ way, idolized the old-timers and their stories, and deepened his love for all things general aviation.
Jaasmin Foote Jaasmin Foote joined HAI as the association’s social media manager in March 2020, just a week before the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. She holds a
bachelor’s degree in English and is currently pursuing her master’s in marketing. Jaasmin is responsible for all the cool posts on HAI’s social media platforms. Follow us, drop by, and say hi!
Chris Hill After an aviation career in the US Army and Coast Guard, Chris Hill oversaw aviation safety management systems throughout the USCG as aviation safety
manager. He holds an ATP rating and has logged more than 5,000 flight hours, primarily in military and commercial helicopters. Chris joined HAI in 2018 as director of safety.
Aaron Karp
Aaron Karp has been an aviation journalist for more than 20 years. Based in Rockville, Maryland, he has served as editor in chief of Aviation Daily and managing
editor of Air Cargo World and is currently a contributing editor to the Aviation Week Network.
David Jack Kenny David Jack Kenny is a fixed-wing ATP with commercial privileges for helicopter. He also holds degrees in statistics. From 2008 through 2017, he worked for
AOPA’s Air Safety Institute, where he authored eight editions of its Joseph T. Nall Report and nearly 500 articles. He’d rather be flying.
Paul Koscak Paul Koscak is a freelance writer and an aviator. He holds CFI, CFII, and MEI (multi-engine instructor) ratings and has 2,500 total flight hours. A former newspaper
reporter and editor, broadcast journalist, and retired US Air Force Reserve officer, Paul recently retired from the US Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Public Affairs.
Gina Kvitkovich Gina Kvitkovich joined HAI as director of publications and media in 2011 after decades of honing her skills in writing, editing, and publishing. As editor of ROTOR,
she is responsible for every error in the magazine that you’re reading—and for some of the good stuff, as well.
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