Col Prof Dimitar Nedialkov, D. Sc. was born in 1959 in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. His aviation career began in the Sofia Aeroclub as a skydiver. He graduated the Dolna Mitropolia Georgi Benkovski Higher Air Force School in 1982 and served as a pilot officer at airbases Kamenets, Bezmer, Ravnets, and Dobrich. He has flown over 1500 hours on the L-29 Delfin, MiG-15, MiG-17, diverse variants of the MiG-21 and Su-22M4. In 1987, he received First Class Pilot grading. In 1992, Nedialkov graduated the G S Rakovski Defence Academy - Sofia, being detailed to the 26th Reconnaissance Air Regiment in Dobrich as a squadron leader. He began working at the Academy after two years command practice, defending a Doctoral Thesis in 1999 and becoming Ph. D. and Associate Professor of the Air Force Department which he chaired in 2003–2008. He became Deputy Dean of the Command and Staff Faculty In 2008. In 2010, he defended a Higher Doctoral Thesis, becoming D. Sc. and Professor of the Air Force and Air Defense Department at the Academy. Nedialkov has taken part in 11 international exercises and seven NATO courses, among them ones at the George Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Germany. He continues his flying career on the MiG-29 at the 3th IAB Graf Ignatievo airbase. Nedialkov’s works include 176 research and popular publications, among them 17 monographs. Many of them have been translated from the Bulgarian and convey over a century of Bulgarian aviation history around the world. They include Air Power of the Kingdom of Bulgaria, Bulgarian Fighters, The Genesis of Air Power, Bulgarian Aircraft Manufacture, The Air War over the Balkans, Bulgarian Aviation in the Cold War and The Bulgarian Air Power History.