{"id":357,"date":"2008-08-20T20:57:03","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T04:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2008-08-20T20:57:03","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T04:57:03","slug":"hey-its-the-goodrich-blimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Hey, it&#8217;s the Goodrich blimp!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, yeah, I know they don&#8217;t have a blimp.<\/p>\n<p>I was at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airnav.com\/airport\/KSMO\">SMO<\/a> this evening trying to get a couple night landings in, though the clouds had other ideas.\u00c2\u00a0 Even though I didn&#8217;t get much flying in, I did get to see the Goodyear blimp doing low maneuvers over the airport.  They aren&#8217;t quite touch and goes, but that&#8217;s what they look like from afar.  Anyway, only one shot really came out. That&#8217;s Santa Monica&#8217;s tower in the blurry background.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/dscn3757.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-358\" title=\"Goodyear Blimp at SMO\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/dscn3757-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Goodyear Blimp at SMO\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/dscn3757-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/dscn3757.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, yeah, I know they don&#8217;t have a blimp. I was at SMO this evening trying to get a couple night landings in, though the clouds had other ideas.\u00c2\u00a0 Even though I didn&#8217;t get much flying in, I did get to see the Goodyear blimp doing low maneuvers over the airport. They aren&#8217;t quite touch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-blogbook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}