Say Hello To Maxine Scheer And Aleta Vinas!

With the final days before the official start to EAA AirVenture 2007 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, to not only increase our print and audio coverage of the greatest (air) show on Earth, but also to help us kick off Aero-TV. (Come to think of it... "Herculean" doesn't begin to cover it...)

Over the next several days, we thought we'd take the time to introduce you to the print stringers, video crews, and senior staffers who will be bringing our readers and listeners all the news that's fit to pixilate, modulate and videotape from Oshkosh this year.

And now, without further adieu...

Maxine Scheer

Maxine Scheer has honed her aviation skills over the last 25 years working on the planning and development of the necessary and the sometimes frustrating montage of buildings and pavement we call airports. Her assignments have taken her as far west as Manila and as far south as Tierra del Fuego -- adventures which are likely to pale those she expects to experience at Air Venture 2007.

These days, she spends her time doing research on the airport industry and brainwashing her two young boys with way too many toy airplanes and frequent visits to the airport. We are lucky that they have given her time off for good behavior to come join us as an ANN stringer. Ms. Scheer holds a B.S. in Aeronautical Studies from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, where she also earned her Private Pilot Certificate.

Aleta Vinas

When she told ANN Publisher Jim Campbell she would "write for an Oshkosh pass," she didn't really expect he'd take her up on it. That was five years ago... and her "newbie" status has long since been demolished. She's now a grizzled old veteran (with much to learn) but still more than willing to write for a pass to the Big O.

Aleta says she's known since she was a little girl that aviation was where I wanted to build a career. She just didn't realize it might not be up in the air. Aleta graduated from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University with a BS in Aeronautical Science and an AS in Aviation Management. She spent some years as a flight instructor and now lives vicariously through a few of her students who have become airline pilots. She chose a different flight path for her career, but maintains her CFII and flies occasionally as a weekend pilot.

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

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