Say Hello To Pete Combs!

With the final days before the official start to EAA AirVenture 2006 counting down all too rapidly... and, not quickly enough... ANN's senior staff is all-too-aware of the Herculean task ahead of us in reporting EVERYTHING that's news at The World's Greatest Aviation Celebration.

Fortunately, this year we'll have some help... and some really GREAT help at that. As we've already told you, Aero-News is bringing its largest staff EVER to AirVenture this year... and over the next several days, we thought we'd take the time to introduce you to the staff members -- both full-time, as well as our "stringers" -- who will be bringing our readers and listeners all the news that's fit to pixilate from Oshkosh this year.

And now, without further adieu...

Pete Combs

Pete Combs, ANN’s Senior Editor, is an award-winning broadcaster with more than 30-years’ experience. He’s covered stories that range from tornadoes in the Midwest to hurricanes in the Southeast. In fact, Pete won four AP awards for his hurricane coverage in Florida in 2004 and is a mainstay on network newscasts when the weather gets rough.

Now a CBS Radio News reporter and a local correspondent at WBT Radio in Charlotte, Pete is an IFR pilot with over a thousand hours’ experience in the air. His interviews with newsmakers in aviation are a mainstay of our aero-briefings and ANN special reports. Pete came to Aero-News as an associate editor in 2003 and quickly rose (with surprisingly little bloodshed…) to become Senior Editor – first overseeing our print site and now leading ANN’s Aero-Cast program.

Pete lives near Charlotte, NC. His son, Daniel, lives in Seattle.

Stay tuned as we introduce more of our stringers and staffers in days to come!

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