BS in Electrical Engineering. Graduate, U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School (Flight Test Engineer) - Class 75ATested aircraft for 12 years, then became an aerospace journalist. That satisfied a long-term dream of writing professionally, while also capitalizing on engineering and flight testing experience. Wrote ~2,500 articles/stories for Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine, during a 22-year career. Specialty was evaluating aircraft, then writing "flight reports" about the airplane, its systems and/or operations for AW&ST. Logged ~2,000 hrs. in 81 different types of aircraft. One of many career highlights was flying (twice) with the U.S. Navy's "Blue Angels" flight demonstration team. One flight was in the backseat of F-18 No. 4, Slot position of the "Diamond," the Blue Angels' basic four-aircraft formation.Since retiring from AvWeek in early 2007, have been writing novels and consulting in the aerial firefighting sector. Coauthored "Space Wars: The First Six Hours of World War III," which was released in hardback by Forge Books in April 2007, mass market paperback in Oct. 2008 and in trade paperback in April 2010. A Space Wars sequel, "Counterspace: The Next Hours of World War III," was released in hardbound Oct. 13, 2009, and in mass-market paperback Aug. 2, 2011.In December 2012, "The Permit," a fictional techno-thriller based on the actual events of my son, Erik, being murdered on July 10, 2010, was published as an e-book. It's available through Amazon, Smashwords.com and other e-retailers. As of July 2013, the book also is available in hardcopy print at Amazon.com and PygmyBooks.com. ** A 2014/Second Edition of "The Permit" is now available in hardcopy print. **Contributed to a nonfiction book about my son's murder: "License to Kill: The Murder of Erik Scott" (released mid-2018; Amazon and NorthSlopePublications.com).Specialties: Aerospace writing (news, nonfiction and fiction)Flight Test Engineering