Author 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 freelance 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." On a freelance basis, 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," which covered NASA's scientific achievements in computational physics using high performance computers. 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 35 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.Veronico is also the author of the top-selling "Hidden Warbirds" series published by Zenith Press. "Hidden Warbirds: The Epic Stories of Finding, Recovering, and Rebuilding WWII's Lost Aircraft" was released in June 2013, and "Hidden Warbirds II" followed a year later in June 2014. "Hidden Warships," detailing hidden and lost World War II naval vessels, was released in July 2015, and was recently translated for the Danish market (Hidden Warships / Krigsskibe på Havets Bund).Recently, the Military Writer's Society of America (www.militarywriters.com) 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.Nicholas A. Veronico's GoodReads author blog is at:http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/43521.Nicholas_A_Veronico/blog