Thread titles just quoting serial numbers

OK, I think this has run its course.

Unless there is another point to make – and I cant see it, I’m closing it.

Bruce

A big BZ to Blue Max!!!

It also annoys me when people use ICAO code for airfield names.

“Did anyone see the MD82 at EGLL the other day? Or the C150 at EGBP on its way to BZN?”

Speak the Queen’s (as ooposed to American) English please and we’ll all know where we are

TTFN OK:D

Ha ha all makes sense to me

OK, so if I stick Lancaster in-front of PA474 will you introduce correct punctuation and grammar into your posts in return?

nope but maybe perhaps never but you know what i mean lol

A big BZ to Blue Max!!!

It also annoys me when people use ICAO code for airfield names.

“Did anyone see the MD82 at EGLL the other day? Or the C150 at EGBP on its way to BZN?”

Speak the Queen’s (as ooposed to American) English please and we’ll all know where we are

TTFN OK:D

+1 to the original poster, if only to wind up our voluble Welsh colleague..

….or better still, take pagen’s advice and ignore the thread…….;)

Can you also include year of manufacture and manufacturer please.
So as not to confuse Vietnam Corsair with WW2 Corsair etc.
This will also prevent possible Car enthusiasts replying.

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Can somebody please tell me why there is an obsesion with just quoting A/C serial numbers in thread titles??? Most of us have no idea what the S/N of a particular A/C is and on the most part dont care!!
We may however have an interest in the Aircraft in question, if we knew what it was????
Is it to try and make you seem more important and have more knowledge than the rest of us????
Its not big, and its not clever, just bl**dy anoying!!!!!
Please put the A/C type in the thread title, you might get more people looking.

Rant over, feel much better now:)

What an utterly pointless post and thread!

I haven’t seen any ‘obsession’ with just quoting serial numbers in thread titles, yes some people post them up in thread titles as that is either how they know a particular aircraft, or they want to gain or inpart info on a particular airframe – hardly obsessive.

Most of us do know what serial numbers are, and generaly how they work, and those that don’t can learn by reading the threads.

I can’t possibly see how you can read it as self importance or some kind of superior attempt to look important over others.

The one point where I concur with you is that it isn’t big and clever, but then I’m sure it isn’t meant to be either.

If the aircraft type is put in the title then yes that is better, but certainly not the be all and end all, and when conducting forum searches the serial number appearing in a title can be very useful.

If all you have to whinge about is how thread titles appear then you need a bit more in your life.
I don’t care if a thread title is a serial number or not, or even if I recognise it or not, I will still try and read it and hopefully gain some new information, which unfortunately this thread hasn’t provided and has just wasted 10 minutes of my life.
What is bl**dy annoying are pointless rants and ??? !!! appearing in every other line.

You can choose to read or ignore a thread, I wish I had ignored this one.

Voytech.
Have you ever though of taking up a position in Government?
Regards,
kev35

I am hesitating how to interpret your question in the context of para. 5 in the Forum Code of Conduct…

I think I just lost the will to live………..:(

Sorry – TLAs….?

Well in computing terms it’s a Three Letter Acronym… which does leads to the rather amusingly named ETLA or Extended Three Letter Acronym… or to the layman a four letter acronym…

Im not making this up you know…

Zeb

In the plural………….?

Sorry – TLAs….?

Trans Liberian Airways.

Voytech.

Have you ever though of taking up a position in Government?

Regards,

kev35

…and while we are at it, let’s cut down the use of TLA’s.

Mark

Sorry – TLAs….?

The in the correct way to introduce a subject into a story or comment would be to give it its full title or description, be it animal, vegetable or mineral,
there after you can shorten it for ease of writing.
ie Battle of Britain memorial flight Lancaster b1 PA474 becomes PA474 only in the rest of the text.
yes! not everyone is a hardened cabbage in the aviation world but i suppose it is assumed by that people that add to this forum that others who join it would have abit more than a passing interest.
i dont know every number like a train spotter but i do know some of the historical aircraft that count!.
im also x RAF and in there the aircraft that you work on are refered to by the serial number. a common practice that slips over to everyday forum talk unfortunately for some
it is a good point you made though and in future i wont be so assuming in further threads

OK, so if I stick Lancaster in-front of PA474 will you introduce correct punctuation and grammar into your posts in return?

Most of us have no idea what the S/N of a particular A/C is and on the most part dont care!!
We may however have an interest in the Aircraft in question, if we knew what it was????
…
Please put the A/C type in the thread title, you might get more people looking.

But then again, some of us have no idea what a particular aircraft type is, so perhaps a few words of description (‘obscure inter-war training biplane’, for example) would also be useful.
And then of course such descriptions should not use too difficult words (such as ‘obscure’ and ‘inter-war’ in the example above) as some of us have no idea what they mean.

And there was me thinking that Edinburgh (EGGD) was Essex Gay Girls Disco. :p

Totally agree and this is the point exactly-unless you have specific in depth knowledge about a specific aircraft/facts/etc-how do you know what on earth anyone is referring to-to be honest when I see threads titled like that-I tend to just shear away from them-in the probable misconception that they are likely to be too geeky-for my own general-non specific interest.

Oh and by the way Edinburgh is actually EGPH !! EGGD is Bristol- (which is the point exactly made-relatively few would actually care-unless maybe you were filing a flight plan or needing to be technically specific etc)

Newark Air Museum it is then!! 😀