Alex Nicolson
Alex grew up on a farm on the beautiful Isle of Skye, off the west coast of Scotland. He graduated from the University of Glasgow with a Masters in Engineering. He worked for 10 years at the U.S. aerospace manufacturer Pratt & Whitney and was part of the team that got their gas turbine installed in a race car for Andy Granatelli for the Indy 500 race. The rules were quickly changed so gas turbines could never be used again! Alex then joined a company in California as a senior engineer and got involved with the Voyager aircraft which flew around the world non-stop. His team designed a solution to a serious noise problem in flight that stopped the two pilots from taking turns sleeping. Most recently, Alex worked at NASA JPL in Pasadena, California, on the Mars Rover Curiosity. Alex is now semi-retired and enjoys doing technical writing for clients and has published many articles in magazines.