Aeronumerology Blog
How big to print?
Photographs and Images When it comes to aviation photography one question frequently asked is how big a print can I make. It's not the right question, the first question should be how do I consume media. If you still read physical magazines, or physical books - then...
Air Force One – An Icon for an Iconoclast!
The 45th and 47th President, Donald J Trump The elected president has made a number of brand USA changes, but few of them will be in the world view as much as the changes to the Air Force One livery. The original design was commissioned by John F Kennedy, the 35th...
Stealth – But not as we know it!
The Secret Squirrel Approach It has been over three years since Air Mobility Command decided to go all Secret Squirrel on the plane spotters. Now if there is something that "rips ma knitting", it is taking something as unobtrusive as a C-17 and remove the visible...
Master log systems, these shouldn’t work but do.
On Approach? This is a product from Lotus (remember them), you can still get it from some of the internet archive sites. I think it has fallen into the public domain, but you'll have to check that. It is still in use by a number of people, easy to manage and works...
Been to Moscow, what did you see there?
My Moscow Trip When I took my Moscow trip many years ago, I wasn't very far down the road before I realised that I would have to build my own application. In 1995 my master log had already been digital for ten years, I had made a number of errors and assumptions when...
Digital Master Log – Your requirements, how to get them.
The spotting brain? Now to many, the above is an oxymoron a bit like military intelligence. If you don't understand the finer points of what it is they do, you'll never understand the people. The same train of thought can be applied to just about any hobby like...
Going Digital – Before you do, Moscow, it’s in your interest.
The Digital Way Before you jump onto the digital band wagon, take just a bit of time to think about what it involves and what you want from the exercise. By the exercise I mean your move to a solution for your master log. The result of this may actually be that you...
Master Log – Which digital system is best for me.
Digital Options There are quite a number of digital options open to the plane spotter when it comes to a master log. But they fit into two basic models, they are either offline or online. Your plan and the must have functions should cover this. Online Systems There...
A Master Log – The Paper Systems, which one to use?
A quick re-think. I had originally planned to cover didital in this post as well, but that would just have made it far too long for my attention span - so this post covers paper systems but not in depth and a separate post will cover the digital systems. Paper, for...