Aeronumerology Blog
My Log – Going Electronic or not!
It's all in the book! This is the first in a series of posts, they are about your plane spotting log. I have nearly all my old log books going back to the mid 1960's, but I do have all the data that I collected or found out. Something alas that may be more difficult...
Data – How to record it!
Data - How much is too much? Now if you ask me, there is no such thing as too much data - but that is if you ask me. Ask anyone else and you'll probably get a different answer, it is afterall, one of the things that makes plane spotting so specific for each person. I...
Excel Find vs Data Filter – Key Differences Explained
Data Filter or Find - your choice. We have seen that there are a couple of inbuilt functions in Excel that are really handy. We have seen the find function and the filter function, when to use which - is one better than the other? It should be noted that these...
Adding more to the spread sheet.
Freezing Panes Now it is possible to freeze panes, jolly handy it is too. If you are not familiar with the function, then a good way to think of it is like this. You pin rows and columns, forcing them to be static and not move. But everything below the row and to the...
Building your Spread Sheet
On our way. Well, as you will be able to see from the image above - the basic spread sheet that Malcolm wanted is built. To save a bit of time I've cheated and populated it with a copy of the United States Civil Aircraft Registry, it saves me time in two ways. Firstly...
WindRunner Takes Flight
WindRunner Takes Flight: How Radia’s Giant Aircraft Is Becoming a Strategic Airlift Contender By Dave Munro All Images Courtesy of Radia Media KitFor years, the WindRunner has been known primarily as the aircraft designed to solve one of the renewable energy...
The Basic Spread Sheet
Begining the process. So moving forward with these posts, we come to the actual use case for a spread sheet like Excel. To get started we need two basic things, we need to know what we are going to record and how we would like to view what we have recorded. For these...
Excel for offline logging.
Introduction If you are new to Plane Spotting, then the chances are that you will not have decided on how you'll keep track of your sightings and what information you will record. The truth be told, it was easier before technology. If you had a pen and a notebook, you...
The First Air Displays
Bournmouth International Aviation Meeting The event formed part of Bournemouth's centenary celebrations and was advertised as one of the greatest public entertainments ever staged in Britain. Held from 11–16 July 1910 at Southbourne, east of Bournemouth, it is...