01 · AIRCRAFT
Aircraft Milestones
Before-and-after comparisons, major construction and restoration moments, significant repairs, completed assemblies and—when the evidence exists—field and maiden milestones.
Curated Room · Milestones, Design & People
Project
Gallery
Not every photograph belongs on a wall. The Project Gallery is the curated visual exhibit of Jon's Hangar: aircraft milestones, design work, people, clubs, fields and flying moments that are worth stopping to look at.
The Gallery is the exhibit, not the photo warehouse.
Technical documentation stays with the aircraft or room where it explains the work. The Gallery gets the images that tell a story.
Technical documentation stays with the aircraft or room where it explains the work. The Gallery gets the images that tell a story.
On the wall now
Three views of the work in progress.
The gallery now opens with actual project photography: the acquired L-4, the restoration bench, and the wing structure that will disappear beneath covering.
Four curated paths
What belongs on the wall
02 · DESIGN
Design & Concepts
Jon's Hangar identity work, hero graphics, Rabbit Hole artwork, finish concepts, technical illustrations, signs, labels and selected visual-development work.
03 · PEOPLE
Friends & Hangar People
Mentors, friends, build sessions, shop visits and the people whose relationship to an airplane or a moment contributes to the story.
04 · FIELD
Clubs, Fields & Flying
Flying fields, clubs, events, gatherings, aircraft at the field and memorable flying days—selected for meaning, atmosphere or history rather than sheer quantity.
How the gallery connects
View it. Understand it. Go deeper.
The Gallery and the Rabbit Hole are deliberately different. The Gallery leads with the visual result. The technical rooms and aircraft pages retain the authoritative project story. Rabbit Holes preserve the deeper reasoning, iterations and lessons when that development history deserves its own trail.
View the work
The image
A strong photograph, graphic or comparison earns the visitor's attention first.
Read the story
Why it matters
A concise caption explains the milestone, person, place or design without overstating the evidence.
Go deeper
Follow the trail
Aircraft Bay, technical room, Flight Line or Rabbit Hole carries the full context.
First formal feature
The Rabbit Hole visual system
Featured Design
A rabbit found more than a hole.
The first Design & Concepts feature is the Rabbit Hole visual system: the hero, icon family and responsive presentations built around a real rabbit discovering an unexpectedly elaborate underground Jon's Hangar workshop.
The Gallery presents the finished visual identity. The Rabbit Hole of Building the Rabbit Hole follows the iterations, responsive-image work and design decisions behind it.
Enter the Rabbit HoleAircraft milestones
The airplanes remain the narrative authority
L-4 Grasshopper
As-received photographs preserve the starting condition of the L-4 and provide the visual baseline for its restoration story.
BUSA 1/4 J-3 Cub
Build and transformation images will mark the J-3's major milestones. Its current hero is presentation artwork for the project.
Carbon Cub S2
Jon's actual Cleetus McFarland Special Edition now anchors the Carbon Cub's return-to-RC story. Its selected detail photographs remain with the aircraft record, where the livery, landing gear and control hardware can be examined in context.
People matter
The hobby is larger than the airplanes
Friends & Hangar People exists because a build log alone cannot explain why some airplanes matter. Mentors, friends, learning, field time and shared work can be as important to the story as a perfect hinge line or a clean wiring installation.
A person appears here because the photograph or relationship contributes to the story—not simply because a camera was present.
Visual provenance
Different images tell different parts of the story.
Real project photograph
First choice when Jon's actual aircraft, component, workshop fixture or physical condition exists and can be photographed.
Reference image
Manufacturer, historical and contextual images help explain the aircraft, period and design background.
Technical rendering
Appropriate when based on verified plans, measurements or documented geometry and clearly presented for that purpose.
Future concept
AI or conceptual imagery can visualize a state that does not yet exist, but it never silently becomes documentary photography.
Image guide: captions identify project photographs, reference images, technical renderings and future concepts so each image's role is clear.
Selection standard
What earns a place here?
The collection highlights finished visual work, major milestones, clear transformations, people and places that matter, and technical moments worth a closer look.
Routine documentation remains valuable—but usually belongs beside the technical story it documents. The Gallery should grow slowly enough that opening it still feels like walking into an exhibit rather than scrolling through a camera roll.
Across the Hangar