{"id":434,"date":"2013-02-05T15:39:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T15:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=434"},"modified":"2013-02-05T15:39:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T15:39:33","slug":"virgin-galactic-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Galactic models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virgingalactic.com\/\" target=\"_d\">Virgin Galactic<\/a> has licensed a set of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virgingalactic.com\/news\/item\/limited-edition\/\" target=\"_d\">&#8220;Limited Edition&#8221; models<\/a> of the WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo combo. They are available in 1\/400 and 1\/200 scale die-cast models at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.b4yourflight.com\/c-136-virgin-galactic.aspx\" target=\"_d\">B4 YOUR FLIGHT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t see any SpaceShipTwo models at Amazon yet but there are several SpaceShipOne models, e.g.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=hobbyspace&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=B000U83LQM&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=hobbyspace&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=B000U88RL6&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Galactic has licensed a set of &#8220;Limited Edition&#8221; models of the WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo combo. They are available in 1\/400 and 1\/200 scale die-cast models at B4 YOUR FLIGHT. Don&#8217;t see any SpaceShipTwo models at Amazon yet but there are several SpaceShipOne models, e.g. &nbsp;<\/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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-models"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-70","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8532,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8532","url_meta":{"origin":434,"position":0},"title":"SpaceShipTwo books, including a model kit, available soon","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Virgin Galactic and DK publishing are collaborating on a set of activity books, with models and stickers, based around\u00a0the theme of the SpaceShipTwo rocket vehicle and aimed at young people: Virgin Galactic Partners with Global Publishers DK - Virgin Galactic 'Make Your Own SpaceShipTwo' and other books part of new\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Rockets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Rockets","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=5"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2029,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2029","url_meta":{"origin":434,"position":1},"title":"Galactic Unite lesson plans based on Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo test flights","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday. 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