{"id":2509,"date":"2010-03-11T15:33:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T23:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/11\/spirit-of-america\/"},"modified":"2010-03-11T15:33:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T23:33:17","slug":"spirit-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/11\/spirit-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/blimp.jpg' title='blimp.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/blimp.thumbnail.jpg' alt='blimp.jpg' class='right' \/><\/a>Verna and I were out and about today. We happened to pass the Carson Goodyear Airship Operations Facility and saw the airship &#8220;Spirit of America&#8221; moored on the landing pad. Sensing a photo opportunity, we stopped in the parking lot and went to the observation deck on the west side of the base. Verna took this photo of the &#8220;blimp&#8221; from the deck. Click the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodyearblimp.com\/fleet\/spirit_america.html\">Goodyear Blimp Website<\/a> describes the operations at this site:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Four pilots direct operations of the California-based Goodyear airship &#8212; the Spirit of America &#8212; Jon Conrad -Pilot-in-Charge, Matthew St. John &#8211; Assistant Pilot-in-charge, Kristen Davis &#8211; Senior Pilot and Nathan Brooks &#8211; Senior Pilot.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the four pilots, the Spirit of America operation has a crew of 16 including aircraft mechanics, radio and television technicians, riggers, heavy-duty maintenance mechanics, ground handlers, and a public relations manager. Three support vehicles complement the Spirit of America\u2019s operations, including an 18-wheel tractor-trailer mobile maintenance vehicle, a 22- person MCI bus, and a nine-passenger van. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verna and I were out and about today. We happened to pass the Carson Goodyear Airship Operations Facility and saw the airship &#8220;Spirit of America&#8221; moored&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerospace","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}