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William B. Scott

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William B. Scott is a full-time author (www.williambscott.com). He retired as the Rocky Mountain Bureau Chief for Aviation Week & Space Technology, following a 22-year career with the international magazine. He also served as Senior National Editor in Washington, and in Avionics and Senior Engineering Editor positions in Los Angeles. He covered advanced aerospace and weapons technology, business, flight testing and military operations, wrote more than 2,500 stories for the magazine, and received 17 editorial awards.

His nonfiction book, COMBAT CONTRAILS: VIETNAM, was released in late-2021. A collection of 18 stories told by warriors who lived them, it's the first in a series of CONTRAILS books.

A solo-written novel, "The Permit," is based on
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New Book: “EARTHQUAKE: Fighter Pilot | Test Pilot | Leader”

Release Date:  March 2024

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO  —  Chances are, you’ve never heard of him. But rarely has an American warrior’s life-story been as varied and engaging as that of Air Force Brigadier General Robert F. Titus. His 32-year military career began as an 18-year-old Army paratrooper at the end of World War II. Against the odds, he later became an Air Force fighter pilot, flew a stag

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“Are Cops Now America’s Most Dangerous Domestic Terrorists?”
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“Fiction is only fiction because it is yet to be proven.”
Robert M. Roberts

“If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.”
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William Scott Fiction based on the actual events of my son's murder-by-cop, "The Permit's" theme can be summed up by one of the primary character's message to killer-cops: "You kill, you lie, you die."


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