>>Burning Man
Aug. 29–Sept. 4, Gerlach, Nev. Countercultural festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert with interesting technology, pyro-arts, machine art, and a lot more. burningman.com
October >>PhreakNIC X >>Trinity Site Visit Day Oct. 20– 22, Nashville, Oct. 7, near Alamagordo, Tenn. Originally started N.M. The birthplace of the as a “hacker convention,” atomic bomb, Trinity Site is PhreakNIC now includes sci-open only twice a year. See fi/fantasy, gaming, anime, where the nuclear era began. and other areas of tech www.wsmr.army.mil/pao/ culture. phreaknic.info TrinitySite/ trinst.htm
EDITOR’S CHOICE >>Crazy Horse Monument Night Blast Sept. 6, Crazy Horse, S.D. A spectacular nighttime explosion lights up the mountain with dozens of fireballs and specially designed pyrotechnical features. crazyhorse.org/ events/ nightblasts.shtml
>> THEMIS Satellite Launch Oct. 19, Kennedy Space Center, Fla. A Delta 2 Rocket takes the “Time History of Events and Mac-roscale Interactions during Substorms” ( THEMIS) spacecraft into orbit. kennedyspacecenter.com
>> The Texas Mile Oct. 28– 29, Goliath, Texas Automobiles, motorcycles, and land speed racers push machines to speeds over 250 mph on a round on the runway of a remote Texas airport. texasmile.com
EDITOR’S CHOICE >>World Championship Punkin Chunkin
Nov. 3– 5, Millsboro, Del. Tens of thousands converge on a Delaware cornfield to watch air cannons, trebuchets, and other hurling devices vie to hurl a 10-pound pumpkin the greatest distance. punkinchunkin.com
>>Oceana Airshow Sept. 8– 10, Virginia Beach, Va. One of the four largest U.S. air shows, Oceana features the Blue Angels and a very long list of other flying performers. oceanaairshow.com
EDITOR’S CHOICE >>Edwards AFB Open
>>X Prize Cup House Oct. 28– 29,
Oct. 19– 22, Las Cruces, Edwards Air Force Base,
N.M. Astropreneurs try to Calif. In addition to hosting
launch their reusable rocket one of America’s premier
ships multiple times in air shows, the Edwards AFB
under 24 hours.
xpcup.com open house allows access
to the Air Force Flight Test
Center and NASA’s Dryden
Flight Research Center.
www.edwards.af.mil
>>Sta-Bil Turf Classic Nov. 4, Shelby, N.C. This final U.S. Lawn Mower Association sanctioned event features spirited and sort-of-serious lawn mower racers. letsmow.com
>>Morton Punkin Chuckin’ Oct. 21– 22, Morton, Ill. Calling itself “The Pumpkin Capital of the USA,” Morton organizes one of the largest assemblages of pumpkin-hurling catapults and air cannons in the country. pumpkincapital.com
>>Dawn Spacecraft Launch Nov. 11, Kennedy Space Center, Fla. A Delta 2 rocket launches the Dawn spacecraft on a scientific mission to asteroids Ceres and Vesta. kennedyspacecenter.com
EDITOR’S CHOICE >>Reno Air Races Sept. 13– 17, Reno, Nev. Five days of racing by six classes of aircraft. Racers exceed 500 mph; includes the Air Force Thunderbirds. airrace.org
>>Baltimore Flugtag Oct. 21, Baltimore, Md. Thirty teams take to the sky above the Inner Harbor for Flugtag, which means “flying day” in German. This event showcases the creative minds among us who build human-powered flying (read: falling) machines. They glide off the end of a 30-foot ramp hoping to achieve a few seconds of flight before landing in the harbor. redbullfl ugtagusa.com
Important: All times, dates, locations, and events are subject to change. Verify all information before making plans to attend.
>> Robodock Sept. 20– 23, Amsterdam This unique, 9-year-old international summer festival merges technology and art. robodock.org/ home_eng.html
>>Bridge Day Oct. 21, Fayette County, W. Va. This may be the largest annual “extreme sports” event in the world. BASE jumpers parachute from a steel bridge in front of 200,000 spectators. bridgeday.info
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