{"id":1166,"date":"2013-03-16T04:52:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T04:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2013-03-16T04:52:01","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T04:52:01","slug":"plane-crazy-saturday-at-mojave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1166","title":{"rendered":"Plane Crazy Saturday at Mojave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are in Southern California on Saturday, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/mojaveairport.com\/2013\/03\/08\/plane-crazy-saturday-march-16\/\" target=\"_d\">Plane Crazy Saturday \u2013 March 16\u00a0 at Mojave Air and Space Port<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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!<\/p>\n<p>Mojave Transportation Museum Foundation Presents<\/p>\n<p>Plane Crazy Saturday!<br \/>\nAircraft Fly-In \u2013 Historic Aircraft Display Day<\/p>\n<p>March 16, 2013<br \/>\n10 a.m. \u2013 2 p.m.<br \/>\nFree admission!<\/p>\n<p>Special Guest Speaker at 11:00 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Rocket Photography<br \/>\nWith <a href=\"http:\/\/mikemassee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Massee<\/a><br \/>\nPhotographer extraordinaire!<br \/>\n(Rockets, Landscapes, Trains: Full Scale and 7.5 Gauge Live Steam Trains and Aircraft)<br \/>\nMike is invaluable to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xcor.com\" target=\"_blank\">XCOR<\/a> Aerospace as a professional photographer, cinematographer, solids modeler, graphics artist, Photoshop expert, broadcast engineer, and adventurer.<br \/>\nHe serves as Vice President with the Mojave Transportation Museum Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>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 &amp; Outdoor Railroading (cover story, September \/ October 2010) as well as several calendars.<\/p>\n<p>Wen Painter will be on hand in the Voyager Restaurant to sign Tax-exempt forms for pilots!<\/p>\n<p>Aviation and Space Art with Doug Castleman<br \/>\nChildren Books with Usborne Books<br \/>\nAviation collectables for sale<br \/>\nPosters, small gliders, patches and t-shirts<br \/>\nBring the kids! Bring a camera!<\/p>\n<p>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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are in Southern California on Saturday, check out the Plane Crazy Saturday \u2013 March 16\u00a0 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1166\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plane Crazy Saturday at Mojave<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-iO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17873,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17873","url_meta":{"origin":1166,"position":0},"title":"Video: Piloting the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 19, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"[ Update Feb.20: The test flight has been postponed due to weather issues: Our test flight window opened this morning, but the Mojave weather isn\u2019t cooperating. 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