The Photographer - Scott Germain has spent his entire life around airplanes. From a boy flying on his dad’s lap to his current position as a pilot for US Airways (West), he has always strived to find new experiences wherever he’s gone in aviation. In high school, he soloed on his sixteenth birthday and earned a spot on the school newspaper staff. He dove into writing and photography and enjoyed it. After he won a Quill and Scroll Award from Columbia University, he knew his photography and writing would combine with his passion for aviation.

Accepted to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Germain lead a team that resurrected the campus Pioneer newspaper. During this time, his work was also published on campus and in regional aviation publications. In 1990, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree.

Germain then worked as a flight instructor and was active with the Santa Monica Museum of Flying. As he climbed the ladder, he’s been a cargo pilot, air taxi pilot, regional airline captain, and is now a major airline pilot. Along the way, he found time to fly over 90 types of aircraft, and has been active in unlimited and sport class air racing, formation flying, warbirds and aerobatics. His favorite accomplishment? "Racing at Reno," he said. "It's been my passion since I was eight or nine."

He often carried his camera on his flights, and would spend weekends and vacations at west coast airshows, air museums, or the Reno air races.

When he isn’t out flying  the Airbus or his Lancair Super 360, Germain finds time to be the Assistant Editor of Warbird Digest Magazine, and also runs several aviation related web sites. He has well over 500 articles and photographs and two books published. His third is being written now. His work has appeared in Warbird Digest, Air Classics, Aeroplane Monthly, Aircraft Illustrated, FlyPast, Air and Space Magazine, EAA Sport Aviation, EAA Warbirds, ALPA magazine, programs for the Reno Air Races, the 2007 Gathering of Mustangs, and a number of other publications. His air to air photography is also featured in the 2008 Warbirds calendar.

Germain is also a member of the International Society of Aviation Photographers, Society of Air Racing Historians, EAA, EAA Warbirds, and the Air Line Pilots Association.