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Gallery of images for the top of this site's pages
When I was re-designing my website, I thought it would be neat to have some cool airplane images decorating each page, like in the background (the way MySpace does it), or in a corner, or along the sides... Eventually I settled on having them at the top, the way many blogs have a picture near the top with the title written over the picture. At first I thought I would pick a handful of images, and have one be at the top of the pages on each section of the site (one at the top of the Airshow Reviews & Pictures page, one at the top of the About Me page, etc), maybe with the colors of that sectionf of the site customized to better fit the picture. But as I went through my pictures, I just liked too many of them, it was impossible to pick just a handful. And I hated the thought of someone visiting my site and seeing the same one every time when they could instead see different ones. So that's when I decided to have a whole bunch of images, and have a randomizer pick one for you each time you load a page.
Since I like all those pictures a lot, and think you will too, I thought I'd put them all in one page so that you can see all of them (and so that I don't forget about any of them when I am writing the code for a new part of the site).
To make most of these, I took a picture, cropped it slightly, and used Photoshop to extend the "sky" into one direction, so that the aspect ratio becomes bigger, I have room to put the text, and the picture does not take up the whole page (which it would if it had a more square-ish aspect ratio). A few of them, however, are just a crop of a picture. The three images that are just non-extended crops are the one above (which is quite a dramatic crop of a picture that showed the whole F-16) and the two below (the Blue Angels flying in front of Alcatraz, and an F-14 climbing into the Nellis sky, which I took while zooming out so that I captured more of the interesting background). All the other ones have been grown sideways using Photoshop.
So that's it. Enjoy.
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Above, the Blue Angels about to do an opposing pass in front of Alcatraz during the 2006 San Francisco Fleet Week airshow.
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Above, an F-14 Tomcat rockets skywards in a vertical climb during what was supposed to be the last tactical demo of the F-14 Tomcat, at Nellis AFB's 2004 Aviation Nation airshow.
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Above, what DID end up being the last F-14 Tomcat airshow tactical demo, at Oceana's 2005 airshow, in Virginia Beach. That airshow was worth crossing the US for!
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Above, a B-2 banks towards the crowd during a turn at Edwards AFB's 2005 airshow. Edwards is the only place where the B-2 banks enough for the public to see its top-side.
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Above, a SuperHornet nudges the sound barrier, following the fleet fly-by at Oceana's 2005 airshow, in Virginia Beach.
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Above, a B-1 makes a fast pass at Travis AFB' 2005 airshow.
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Above, Julie Clark on her way down from the top of a loop, in her T-34 Mentor, at Travis AFB's 2005 airshow.
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Above, an F-15 finishes its tactical demo by performing a knife-edge "dedication pass" banana turn, at the Salinas 2005 airshow.
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Above, Northrop's N9M flying wing, a one-of-a-kind experimental airplane, lovingly restored, maintained, and flown by the folks at Chino's Planes Of Fame museum.
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Above, a Heritage Flight at Nellis AFB's 2005 airshow: An F-22 Raptor, a P-51 Mustang, and one of the USAF's three super-rare Heritage Flight F-4 Phantoms.
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Above, the only flying Republic AT-12 Guardsman, a predecessor to the P-47 Thunderbolt, flown at Chino Planes of Fame shortly after the end of its restoration in May of 2006.
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Above, the Dutch F-16 demo pilot borrows a local F-16 at Edwards in 2005 and puts on an incredible display, very aerobatic and full of high-alpha, high-sideslip manouvers. You gotta love the "Smokewinders" on the wingtips.
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Above, a Grumman S-2 fire-tanker drops a load of slurry at the Pacific Coast Air Museum's "Wings Over Wine Country" airshow, in 2005. A slurry drop or two is done at every years's PCAM airshow, and it's quite a sight.
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Above, the Thunderbird Diamond stacked in a precise formation at Travis AFB's 2005 airshow.
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Above, an interesting Heritage Flight formation over Salinas' 2006 airshow: A P-51 Mustang, an F-16, and an F-15 stacked one on top of the other (and slightly to the side).
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Above, a close-up of the P-38 flown by the folks at Chino Planes Of Fame, from their 2005 airshow.
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Above, a Saab J35 Draken is flown at Travis AFB's 2005 airshow. This unusual double-delta design was actually one of the world's first MACH 2 airplanes.
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Above, the Showcopters perform a climbing opposing pass while yawing towards each other, at the Salinas airshow in 2003. Not the sharpest picture in the world (shot with a Panasonic FZ1) but I like it.
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Thanks for visiting. Any questions, comments, suggestions, corrections, or other feedback, please don't hesitate to email me.
- Bernardo
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