Air Force One

Nicholas A. Veronico comes from a family of pilots; both his mother and father held private tickets, and his brother is a commercial pilot who flies for a major airline. Veronico got his start as a writer in 1984, then joined Pacific Flyer Aviation Newspapers. He then went on to serve as editor of In Flight USA, contributed extensively to FlyPast magazine, and in 1994 joined Airliners: The World's Airline Magazine. He has contributed to Air Classics, EAA Warbirds, Warbirds Worldwide, Airways, Airliner World, Warbird Digest, Classic Wings, and many others. His career path led to the high-tech industry where he worked for an embedded systems-on-a-chip magazine, Silicon Strategies. Subsequently, he served as editor of Gridpoints, the quarterly publication of the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division. He now works as a science and technology writer in the San Francisco Bay area and has recently written for the NASA.gov website, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Mercury magazine, for Space.com, UniverseToday.com, and the SETI Institute's Explorer magazine. In addition, Veronico has collaborated with a number of today's most respected historians and authors and has written more than 40 books on a wide range of transportation, military, and local history subjects. He also served as the lead scriptwriter for Scrapping Aircraft Giants, a TV documentary by Daurg Productions for The Discovery Channel.  In 1995 he started www.wreckchasing.com -- an online community for enthusiasts interested in locating, documenting, and preserving historic aircraft wrecks. He hosted the first symposium for those interested in aviation archaeology and wreckchasing in 2009. The Military Writer's Society of America recognized Veronico's history of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration team and his book on military aircraft storage (AMARG) with distinguished book awards.