Plane Crazy Saturday at Mojave

If you are in Southern California on Saturday, check out the Plane Crazy Saturday – March 16  at Mojave Air and Space Port.

Come out to Mojave Airport for breakfast or lunch, listen to a great speaker at 11 a.m. and enjoy some time with other pilots and aviation minded friends!

Mojave Transportation Museum Foundation Presents

Plane Crazy Saturday!
Aircraft Fly-In – Historic Aircraft Display Day

March 16, 2013
10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Free admission!

Special Guest Speaker at 11:00 a.m.

Rocket Photography
With Mike Massee
Photographer extraordinaire!
(Rockets, Landscapes, Trains: Full Scale and 7.5 Gauge Live Steam Trains and Aircraft)
Mike is invaluable to XCOR Aerospace as a professional photographer, cinematographer, solids modeler, graphics artist, Photoshop expert, broadcast engineer, and adventurer.
He serves as Vice President with the Mojave Transportation Museum Foundation.

His photos have been featured in major publications around the world including Smithsonian Air and Space Magazine, Scientific American, Popular Science, Esquire, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The New York Times, Time Magazine, Wired, Nature, Space.com and many more. My railroad photography has appeared in Trains, Railfan and Railroad (cover story, May 2009) and Live Steam & Outdoor Railroading (cover story, September / October 2010) as well as several calendars.

Wen Painter will be on hand in the Voyager Restaurant to sign Tax-exempt forms for pilots!

Aviation and Space Art with Doug Castleman
Children Books with Usborne Books
Aviation collectables for sale
Posters, small gliders, patches and t-shirts
Bring the kids! Bring a camera!

All guests are reminded to observe flightline safety rules, including: no touching propellers, no running, no pets, and keep a watchful eye for taxiing aircraft! Thanks!

Copenhagen Suborbitals: More about the Vostok launch support ship

Copenhagen Suborbitals  posts the second installment of their video reports on their “Mission Control and Sea Launch Support Ship Vostok”:

Caption:

Vostok will provide Mission Control, Rocket Trajectory Tracking and Spacecraft Recovery capabilities to Copenhagen Suborbitals.

Outfitting of the vessel for its Sea Launch support role is being undertaken at present.

The Mission Control and Rocket Trajectory Tracking roles require a host of radio gear, antennas and electronic equipment to be fitted to the vessel.

Everyone can participate in space