Articles written by Kelly Vicars

Kelly Vicars|Mar 18, 2017

A team of artists, engineers, airline mechanics, welders, technologists, and visionaries are busy at the Mojave Air & Space Port converting a Boeing 747 into a moving art experience for Burning Man 2017. The plane is a 1985 Varig cargo conversion that once transported passengers in Brazil. The project's goal is to give the plane new wings by transforming it into a land-going vessel - an "art car" - for Burning Man's annual festival of art in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. Since its inception in...