FYI Bio zoom ZZZZZZZZ

This is the updated zoom bio from the RRL web site it's a hoot!!Just for grins
I'm going to contact National Geographic.Popular Science and Popular Mechanics
to see if zoom ever had a published article in them. Here's where it's at:

www.rocketracingleague.com/bio_jim-campbell.html


Chuck S RAH-14/1 ret

and now heeeerrreeesss the bio!!!
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Jim Campbell
Advisor, Pilot, Aviation
James R. "Zoom" Campbell may be the world's busiest aviation journalist having
had his adventures and/or stories documented in US Aviator, Popular Science,
Popular Mechanics, Time, Air Progress, Sport Pilot, Kitplanes, National
Geographic, Private Pilot, Pacific Flyer, The Aero-News Network and over 100
other publications. The author of over 2000 magazine articles, tens of thousands
of news dispatches, the photographer of over 200 magazine covers, and arguably
one of the most experienced general and sport aviation journalist/test pilots in
the sport and general aviation writing business, Jim Campbell is driven by a
passion for aviation that few can match.
A commercially rated pilot, Campbell has earned Flight instructor Ratings
(CFI/A/I/ME/H) in fixed and rotary wing aircraft, and logged over 17,000 flight
hours in over 1100 different ultralights, jets, multi-engine A/C, helicopters,
gyroplanes, autogyros, sailplanes, seaplanes, kit aircraft and general aviation
birds.
Among Campbell's many other lofty accomplishments are his 1981 Ultralight World
Record High Altitude flight to 21,210 feet over Lakehurst, New Jersey; flying on
behalf of President Ronald Reagan as an airshow pilot during the 1981-82 Air and
Space Bicentennial; several years of film and TV aviation stunt work; his 1981
Ultralight Flight Across America; 17 published books in the aviation field (with
three more in the works for '06-'07); the first aviation journalist to solo and
evaluate the awesome Russian Sukhoi SU-26 and SU-31, the FEW P-51 Mustang, the
Unlimited 10-300 and many other high performance aircraft. Jim was also the
first fly-writer to sample and document the intriguing capabilities of the BD-10
Jet, the Glasair III, the Van's RV-6 and dozens of other pivotal aircraft.
The Editor-In-Chief and Chief of Flight Test Operations for the Aviation World's
Most Comprehensive DAILY News Service, the Aero-News Network; he is hard at work
on the next edition of the "SportPlane Resource Guide" and some aggressive
aerospace book projects. He is also heavily involved in a number of television,
radio and other media projects utilizing his aviation expertise.
More recently; Campbell led the news and photography team that provided primary
media pool services for the Ansari X PRIZE competition, including most of the
SpaceShipOne air-to-air photos that were published all over the world following
the three successful suborbital flights of Burt Rutan's world-changing
spacecraft. He has also served as principal Zero-G photographer during several
hundred parabolas for the Zero-G Corporation's Zero-Gravity flights. A graduate
of the National Test Pilot School, he is the CEO/Publisher of what has become
one of the aviation world's most widely read news services, the Aero-News
Network (http://www.aero-news.net).