Aviation Week Chief Editor Anthony L. Velocci, Jr. Announces Retirement

-- Velocci, 65, plans to retire following a 23-year career with Aviation Week, nine of them as editor in chief of Aviation Week & Space Technology (AW&ST). The company has initiated a search for his successor. Velocci will remain in his position until the end of the year and plans to assist during a transition period.

The announcement was made July 20, 2012.

"Tony led the Aviation Week editorial team -- continuously improving quality and depth and developing the most experienced and accomplished team of journalists in aerospace -- through some of the most significant milestones in Aviation Week's 96-year history," said Greg Hamilton, president of Aviation Week. "Tony will be involved in the process to select a new editor in chief, and he will work with the Aviation Week team to complete this year's relaunch of its flagship brand, Aviation Week & Space Technology."

Velocci joined Aviation Week in 1989 as editor in chief of Defense World and eventually rose to Editorial Director/Strategic Media. In 2003, he was named editor in chief of AW&ST.

Velocci said, "The experience has been as rewarding, personally and professionally, as a career in journalism gets. I will bid farewell to a team in which I have enormous pride and respect for their professionalism and selflessness."

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