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A candidate for 'prototype for everything' with the wonky numbers

I've passed on it now, and have a W10 machine coming

I upgraded this pc from Win7 to W10 a couple of years ago long after the 'free offer' had expired as people had a found a link that still worked ok despite MS saying you couldn't after 2016(?) Am looking to buy a s/h laptop with Win7 on it and wondered if anyone can advise on the link (which might have been on an earlier iteration of the board) and if it's still viable?

AIUI one of the earlier reports said the transponder wasn't working. A complete no-no for civil traffic but the military are exempt from such things even in civil areas?

Ever since cdc models announced the Chesham set I’ve been pestering Charlie to do them in brown as well as teak – and now he’s done me a set and I have to say I’m very pleased with it. rev Ivatt leading set by Sarah S1ddons, on Flickr rev Ivatt pushing set - bay by Sarah S1ddons, on Flickr

Mastermind contestant knows more than Stephan Merchant who actually co-wrote Extras: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gd8h76

3 of my pivots had fallen out as well, but I pushed them back in and so far they've stayed. IMHO great value for money.

I'm sorry I seem to have missed this post. It is indeed 3D printed and RTR from cdc models (Charlie Connor). https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_dkr=1&iconV2Request=true&_blrs=recall_filtering&_ssn=cdcmodels&store_name=cdcdesign&_oac=1

The theme of RIAT 1979 at Greenham Common was the Canberra. RAE's WK163 makes a sharp right turn on a rather grotty departure day, in the time before the fleet got painted in 'uncamouflage' red/white/blue.

I've not been on here for a while. Have we had this 'simply stunning' loco from Gostude? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334142523103?hash=item4dcc7246df:g:t-0AAOSwW0xhOi~i&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwHbHn0Pu%2BEvA2UZSTnVHAViHgw3b2fuVlWu%2BPgGWBphXaxfpxmSAwu5CoMpn5ym%2B11FMltEvlR5UoIGlD5DDd%2FoRbZBUHMXpCQBlPJohPLZbinQjKMFvTI5u%2B8UvMd2RgTkuAegxO%2BRcdzpiJZnaYeDiKEJgkm%2FyLhfQUXqBtxIDpcsO%2FEcTsAVG1gTffvT8LabwTHuSGu8oDnkNf6QFFd5Cp07ML3JRLP369oF8mUhmxIIg3zBkU01%2BOWr0ngPl3w%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR7aP1IHQYg

Getting back to smart meters and assoc factors...... I haven't been on here for some time as I was a long term refusenik for 2 reasons: a/ There was no mobile signal here in 2014 and sending in meter readings for a smart meter when I was already doing that for a dumb terminal was dumb. b/ The concern that the ultimate goal was time of day pricing. Since 3rd August I've been on a smart meter! Last Dec I got a PHEV just as prices hit their highest, and there was no competition in the market. In early summer I became aware that mobile signal here had become reasonably robust, also people were encouraging me to join Octopus who have a Go tariff for overnight charging and also anyone who recommends them gets £50 credit to their bill and the recommendee also gets £50 credit. I applied to Ovo to get a meter fitted and was surprised to get a bkg in just 2 weeks or so. A very nice man duly came, and fitted said meter which seemed to work ok. As I knew the man was coming and I knew I wanted to move to Octopus and I was in credit with Ovo, I tried to reduce my monthy DD from £140 to something quite low but hit the 'computer says no' syndrome. The computer would only allow me to go to eg £90 pcm so I rang them up and man on the phone said 'we can only reduce 15pct below what the computer says'. They can't stop you from cancelling DD but will put you on a paper bill, and higher rate (which was more or less what he rate was before the recent reduction). I was happy with that as I knew I wouldn't be on that rate for long and by the projected time of cutover I'd owe them money rather than them sitting on my money. In the event I owed them just under 11 quid which was better than them sitting on 80 quid of mone for an indeterminate time. On Monday 7th Aug I logged onto Octopus and requested change, and was amazed to find I'd been cut over on 9th. They put you onto standard tariff for a while before they'll put you on the Go tariff which I've been on since 01Sep (4hrs overnight @9.5p and daytme rate/standing charge pretty much industry standard). A couple of poss snags with Octopus. When you apply to join them they ask your annual usage (~4000kWh) and put you on standard tariff for a while and estimate (in my case) £91 pcm for DD. They don't ask you to split between night and rest of 24hr period (which for me is ~2400kWh 'normal' use and ~1600kWh night usage) so my DD is already too high. Not sure what grief they'll give me when I try and reduce DD going into winter. I've been checking usage avidly as you can see daily how much you've used, but it only shows by kWh and not cost as some 24hours periods are heavier usage than others but not neccessarily more expensive. Ref the in-house display which would be common to any supplier... I don't feel I've changed much as it more or less shows empirically what I believed but it has been useful to get almost live data. One thing I've noticed this week is what happens 5pm onwards. I feel like my house faces south but in reality faces SE. Even with the sun and high temps this week, at this time of year I've noticed solar panel production tails off faster than I realised at 5pm when the sun faces the end gable even though it seems very sunny. It's still producing >1kW but it's something to bear in mind if I want to run things in the afternoon rather than morning.

A couple more 5th pod shots. These were badly over-exposed slides which I've had a go at. I think they were 1970 but possibly 1971. The building on the right under construction (Tech Block C) opened autumn 1971. I've converted these to B&W as they seem to come out better that way. I believe the disc was to keep the spare engine from 'windmilling' in flight.

rmweb without moaning? I must have missed that thread! 😂

I've just had an online survey to fill in for MoY 2023 with all the usual sections. Under retailer of the year there's no option to choose Derails (my #1 choice) and only an option to say 'o preference' - no chance to nominate someone they hadn't thought of.

Afraid I don't have much in the way of Mosquito pics. RR299 at Hatfield Family Day July 1971 A difficult to phot shot of USAAF Mosquito at USAF museum dayton OH, July 2006 - it's painted as NS519 but is actually RS709 A slide donated to me of TW117 at Farnborough early 60's This went on to appear at the RAF Museum and is now in Bodo, Norway.

G-AWNL LHR July 76 with a 5th pod

A double whammy for those of us on the cargo side. A weight penalty reducing available payload for cargo and loss of a pallet/container position for the accompanying kit to get the engine off at the other end.

G-ASGA with the 5th engine uncovered - light had virtually gone by then. Also a pic of East African 5H-MOG LHR Feb75 with a 5th pod.

It's not fuel it's a spare engine. I have a very dark shot somewhere with the streamline casing off (was really pushing the limits of available film at the time)

A selection of BEA and BOAC types transitioning to British Airways. 707 G-ARRC LHR undated 747 G-AWNK LHR July 75 747 G-AWNL LHR Nov 75 BAC111 G-AVMH LHR Feb 74 Trident 1 G-ARPL LHR Nov 74 Trident 3 G-AWZH Edinburgh Nov73 Skyvan G-AZYW Glasgow Nov73 VC10 G-ARVK LHR Jan 75 Super VC10 G-ASGA LHR undated - note 5th pod Vanguard G-APEI LHR undated - note cargo titles though it's not a Merchantman Viscount G-AOJE Edinburgh Nov73

We discussed soot a bit earlier in the thread. When Air France introduced the 727 they tried a different colour scheme to hide the soot but didn't adopt it and reverted to the normal scheme for AF at the time. 2 pics of F-BOJD both at Orly airport, June 1969 and Feb 1973.

Canada

C-130 somewhere in Alaska or Canada?

I posted these 2 BOAC 747's before whilst they were 'grounded' in 1970 but hopefully ok to post again, plus a pic of Concorde deprture 21Jan76.