{"id":19666,"date":"2015-02-17T03:05:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T11:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=19666"},"modified":"2015-02-17T03:06:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T11:06:47","slug":"air-shows-and-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/air-shows-and-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Shows and Festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/shoair.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Would it surprise you to know that there are close to 300 airports and air fields in California\u00a0where roughly\u00a0183\u00a0million passengers enplane &amp; deplane each year? Anything so important to our lives is bound to be celebrated. However, you don&#8217;t normally see commercial aircraft featured at plane and aircraft festivals. Vintage aircraft and military flying machines are the stuff of dreams at these events where the public gets to watch daring aerial feats,\u00a0walk inside military craft and get a plane or helicopter ride, usually for an additional fee. \u00a0How important are air shows? In 2013 Blue Angels air shows were cancelled due to government funding issues. \u00a0Four shows in California were cancelled\u00a0and fans of these awesome aerial displays were devastated, but glad when they returned in 2014. Appearing in four cities in California this season, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/blue-angels-air-shows.html\">Blue Angels air shows<\/a> will go on in El Centro, Miramar, San Francisco and Ventura. But that&#8217;s not the end of the story.\u00a0\u00a0There are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-air-shows.html\">dozens of air shows<\/a>\u00a0to dazzle your senses and leave your head spinning as you watch those daring pilots perform spins with corkscrew maneuvers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would it surprise you to know that there are close to 300 airports and air fields in California\u00a0where roughly\u00a0183\u00a0million passengers enplane &amp; deplane each year? Anything so important to our lives is bound to be celebrated. However, you don&#8217;t normally see commercial aircraft featured at plane and aircraft festivals. Vintage aircraft and military flying machines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19666"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}