Update

I finished scanning the John Hanan (Keiser Crew) albums and am getting ready to send them back to his son, Tom. I have only posted a few images from that collection, but there are some fine images there, taken by John himself.

I have added a small amount of simple Javascript to the pages to facilitate reorganizing the site. I can change structure or content in one spot and it will show up across the site, which is a huge time-saver and allows me to try out more ideas. However, for folks with Javascript turned off the menus will no longer be visible. I should have a site map with links to it provided for those folks very soon.

Happy Independence Day

Happy Independence Day, anyone who might be reading this. I'll be scanning some stuff today and if things go quickly may even post new stuff to the VPB-118 site.

Sunday update: I finished scanning the scrapbooks of John Hanan. There are some remarkable images in it. He was co-pilot of Mike Keiser's plane, and as such had great opportunity to snap some memorable shots. He seemed to be somewhat of a shutterbug as well, so it was a fortunate combination. I made some formatting corrections to the website but did not have time to make any new pages with the new images. Here's a sample; I'm not sure what airfield this is. I think it may be a Japanese airfield because photographing an American airfield might be a security risk. But I really am not sure whether that's even true.

Unfortunately, I was not able to do any work relating to the website done this weekend. However, I will have the 3rd of July off in observance of Independence Day, so I should be able to get a lot done that weekend.

Finished Updating Basic Format

I plugged the old kluged table from the original crews page into a page with the CSS layout which I use on other pages. I'll reformat the crews page entirely in a while but now at least you can smoothly navigate the site from the top nav bar. The crews table now also has rows that are more evenly spaced and scalable so that's a big improvement.

This coming weekend I may be able to finish the scanning activities for now. The other part of the stuff that I have is a log.

VPB-119

I'm trying to tear myself away but this was an interesting find and I didn't want to lose the link.

That's It For This Weekend

In addition to finishing scanning of the Hanan scrapbook, I also converted my comments page and links page to the new format. You can see the practical benefit of the new look by zooming the page (usually done by holding the CONTROL key and turning the mouse scroll wheel). Instead of the page just increasing in size overall, the text increases in size and the page format resizes to accomodate the larger text, but not change its horizontal proportions. This should be a boon for folks with macular degeneration or other vision disabilities because they won't have to scroll horizontally if they zoom the page. It also makes the page file size half of what it was and also more Google-friendly.

Also, I added two more images from the Hanan photos, starting here.

I also updated and added some links on the links page.

Talk to you next weekend!

The VPB-118 Book

I just thought to search Amazon.com to see if anyone on there is selling the VPB-118 book. There are three sellers with the book. The seller with the lowest price wants $89.99. The seller with the highest price wants $149.55. I wondered how he arrived at that price. Anyway, if you have the book hang on to it, and if you have any spares, hang onto those too, so that family members can get the book without paying such outlandish prices.