Nicholas A. Veronico

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 in aviation journalism as a freelance journalist 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." On a freelance basis, he has contributed to "Air Classics," "EAA Warbirds," "Warbirds Worldwide," "Airliner World," "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," which covered NASA's scientific achievements in computational physics using high performance computers. He now works for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific providing support services for a NASA mission. Among his astronomy related work, he has written for the society's "Mercury" magazine, for Space.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 30 books on a wide range of aviation/military topics, 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. Veronico has also appeared as a subject matter expert in a number of documentary productions.