Welcome to AirShowFan.com!

This is your one-stop shop to find pictures and information about west-coast airshows, from Yuma to Sonoma, from San Diego to Las Vegas. I go to about 15 airshows a year, and I will use this site to report on which ones are worth going to, and on what can be expected from each one. I'll try to even have some info on the ones I DON'T go to (I am painfully aware of every missed airshow within 10 or 12 hours' driving distance of me), so that if you live somewhere in the Southwestern US, you'll be able to come here and find out about airshows near you. I also go to a lot of air museums, so I'll try to post information on those as well.

My name is Bernardo Malfitano, and this is my personal site. So as well as all this airshow stuff, there are pages about me, and some of my non-aviation photography, and links to my websites about airplane design and digital photography. I might occasionally link to some other random stuff, like blogs or essays I write, music mash-ups I mix, etc.

If you want to know a little about me: I was born in Brazil in 1982, but I lived in the US from 1993 to '96 and again since 2000. I studied Mechanical Engineering at Stanford (with a lot of extra aerodynamics and propulsion stuff) and I currently work for Boeing in the L.A. area. I have also taught kids of all ages (at summer camps, schools, and at Stanford - mostly stuff related to math, science, or aeronautics), I have worked as a camera salesman, I have done tech support at a multimedia-editing computer lab, and I have worked for Google doing translation, legal research, and end-user support. I have always been an aviation nut (although I do have other interests). I am an aerospace engineer, a student pilot, an aviation artist, an airshow photographer, I have created and taught courses about aviation history and technology, I make decorative model planes, I fly simulators and RC model planes, and I hoard aviation-related books and videos. This site is just the tip of the iceberg. (More of the iceberg can be seen at my website about the history and science of aviation technology). You can learn much much more about me here.

A brief (but very important) warning: All content on this site is copyright © Bernardo Malfitano. Naturally, I cannot stop you from downloading it, or from exercising your Fair Use rights. However, please do not include any of this content on any website, report, presentation, or other such public display of information, without first asking for my permission. (I'm a nice guy and I don't depend on this content to make a living, so I'll usually say yes). Quoting bits of what I write is OK under Fair Use, but you have to give me credit for it. And if I find that you posted some of this content somewhere on the web without giving me credit and without linking to my site, I will get very very mad.

That having been said, if you would like higher-resolution versions of any of my photographs, please just ask (and tell me why). I will usually be more than happy to send them to you.

Comments? Suggestions? Questions? Complaints? Want to use any of this content? Want higher-res copies of my pictures? Just want to say hi? Please email me!

I hope you enjoy my site, that you check out my sites about digital photography and about aviation technology, and that you tell your friends!

Thanks for visiting.

- Bernardo