how to avoid multiple entry for one airframe!?

Eurotrans

Hi all!

I started recently uploading some lists I have.

I'm always trying to add the registration history on every entry I add or already present in the database.

Many airframes have double, triple or even more entries

due to slightly different manuf./model name (like Airbus / Airbus Industries / 320-200 / A320-200 / 320-211...) by exemple.

It should be possible to merge them! It's a big mess!!

Another thing, how do you add several differents airframes having the same "Manufacturer" and "Type/Model" while their construction numbers are unknown? (it is often the case for pre-WWII airframes)

eg: I have many Fokker F-VII but the c/n is not known (but i have their registration history)

One last thing, what should we do when the country of registration isn't in the scroll bar?

I have added the registration VR-ABA, which was at that time a prefix from Aden. As Aden isn't in the scroll bar, I put it under Yemen.

best regards,

Eurotrans

Ken Wang

Many airframes have double, triple or even more entries

due to slightly different manuf./model name (like Airbus / Airbus Industries / 320-200 / A320-200 / 320-211...) by exemple.

It should be possible to merge them! It's a big mess!!

I noticed that too, but cannot find a solution. Any suggestion?

One last thing, what should we do when the country of registration isn't in the scroll bar?

I have added the registration VR-ABA, which was at that time a prefix from Aden. As Aden isn't in the scroll bar, I put it under Yemen.

Never heard about the country, but a quick google search tells me Yemen should be fine.

Ken

Ztex

I try to be very careful when entering an airframe that does not automatically come up in the database. Sometimes it does not show then I create and entry and then the new entry shows up with a previously uploaded photo.

The foreign entries where the country does not have a public database is tricky but the military entries are the most confused.

AND....

Aden is a city in Yemen....

Eurotrans

I noticed that too, but cannot find a solution. Any suggestion?

I'm not any kind of webmaster, but maybe some sort of admin tools to a selected number of members on your website for deleting and transfering (correcting) these enties would help!?

I think with such a huge database you need people sepcialized in some area.

Like military registrations, or simply by countries...

Also, suggestions to your "ulpoaders" of what do you want to see would be nice.

maybe you want te see Airbus A320-211

or Airbus Industrie 320-211. it's just an exemple...

About Aden, It was a British colony between 1939 and 1967, thus the VR-A.. prefixes (which was used till 1969).

for exemple: Rhodesia (VP-Y), Hong Kong (VR-H), British Camerouns (VR-N) and many other ex or actual colonies use the V letter.

wikipedia:

In 1839, the British occupied the port of Aden and established it as a colony They also set up a zone of loose alliances (known as protectorates) around Aden to act as a protective buffer. North Yemen became independent of the Ottoman Empire in 1918 and became a republic in 1962.

In 1967, the British withdrew from Aden. The former Aden became known as South Yemen. The two Yemeni countries were formally united as the Republic of Yemen on 22 May 1990.

most of the prefixes can be found on this excellent website

http://daveg4otu.tripod.com/pref.html

brgds

Eurotrans