{"id":25500,"date":"2018-10-21T14:11:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T21:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25500"},"modified":"2018-10-21T14:11:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T21:11:25","slug":"great-pacific-airshow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/great-pacific-airshow\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Pacific Airshow Wows and Educates Millions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"img\"<\/p>\n

By Chris MacDonald<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen thunder roars, go indoors!\u201d is great weather advice but most in Huntington Beach just did the opposite the past three days\u2014they headed outdoors– to see the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and other planes do acrobatics at The Great Pacific Airshow, which returned October 19-21, 2018.<\/p>\n

Under blue skies, it was an amazing sight to behold and was enjoyed by millions all over the Southland. Vendors at Pier Plaza, next to the HB Pier, were giving away earplugs to diminish the loud noises.<\/p>\n

Some of the net profits from the show were earmarked for The Aerospace Education Foundation of Huntington Beach, a non-profit which inspires youth to study aerospace, science and technology.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want them to pioneer the next generation of aviation,\u201d said Dan Page, the foundation\u2019s executive director and a retired Boeing manager.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe offer scholarships, grants and mentoring programs,\u201d said the retired Army Lt. Col. \u201cThis is the third year of the fantastic show in HB and it\u2019s a reminder of the city\u2019s history in aeronautics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lt. Gen. George Muellner, USAF-retired, former President of Boeing\u2019s Air Force Systems, was helping inspire kids and adults at the Foundation\u2019s booth.<\/p>\n

At the show, the Society of Experimental Pilots even had an F-22 Flight Simulator for people to try! The military had recruiting booths and there were many games with prizes. Read full story…<\/a>><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Chris MacDonald \u201cWhen thunder roars, go indoors!\u201d is great weather advice but most in Huntington Beach just did the opposite the past three days\u2014they headed outdoors– to see the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and other planes do acrobatics at The Great Pacific Airshow, which returned October 19-21, 2018. Under blue skies, it was an […]<\/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\/25500"}],"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=25500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25501,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25500\/revisions\/25501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}