Need advice on dealing with retailers.

[plastic penguin]

No worries. My email address is at the bottom of this linked page if you want to make contact. I have just been through this digital/streaming quagmire and I'm a simple man so might be able explain or just try and answer some "dumb" questions...

http://www.guildford.net/phoenixrmc/

Oooo (sorry JD), remote control helis - if you had conventional (ere we go, conventional again) aircraft I'd contact you like a shot.

 

[Lee H]

I'll probably be fine once I've clapped eyes on a set-up and absorb the basic concept. Remember, I've not really spent any time with this configuration, so more of the fear of the unknown.

IMO, it's best not to worry about how things work and just accept that they do. Madness lies the other way.

 

[Anonymous]

PP, I fly planes to, got an electric converted Bossanova, PA Addiction and a few others

 

[plastic penguin]

PP, I fly planes to, got an electric converted Bossanova, PA Addiction and a few others

Used to design my own gliders when I was at school (not kits, but from scratch... plans, drawings...) and was building (remote control) a low wing, single engined monoplane with the fusalage 80% finished, and I ran into my bedroom and trod on the damn thing. I was mortified. That was the final straw. Such is life.

 

[chebby]

...and was building (remote control) a low wing, single engined monoplane with the fusalage 80% finished, and I ran into my bedroom and trod on the damn thing. I was mortified. That was the final straw. Such is life.

A good job R J Mitchell and Barnes Wallis were a tad more tenacious.

 

[plastic penguin]

...and was building (remote control) a low wing, single engined monoplane with the fusalage 80% finished, and I ran into my bedroom and trod on the damn thing. I was mortified. That was the final straw. Such is life.

A good job R J Mitchell and Barnes Wallis were a tad more tenacious.

Who?

 

[Andrew Everard]

I'm still wondering how one can build by remote control

 

[plastic penguin]

...and was building (remote control) a low wing, single engined monoplane with the fusalage 80% finished, and I ran into my bedroom and trod on the damn thing. I was mortified. That was the final straw. Such is life.

A good job R J Mitchell and Barnes Wallis were a tad more tenacious.

(Moving swiftly back on topic) This probably explains why I'm a little reticent towards this modtech. I'm a fairly creative and very open minded - as long as I know the basics. If I'm not in control, remotely speaking... ahem... then I tend to fluster.

 

[chebby]

...and was building (remote control) a low wing, single engined monoplane with the fusalage 80% finished, and I ran into my bedroom and trod on the damn thing. I was mortified. That was the final straw. Such is life.

A good job R J Mitchell and Barnes Wallis were a tad more tenacious.

Who?

The designer of the Spitfire and the designer of the Wellington bomber (and the bouncing bomb).

(I thought you were "Mr World War 2".)

 

[John Duncan]

OT: they have just introduced houses in my sons' primary school. They are both in 'Barnes Wallis', which strikes me as an unusual name for a house.

 

[Andrew Everard]

OT: they have just introduced houses in my sons' primary school. They are both in 'Barnes Wallis', which strikes me as an unusual name for a house

Guess it must be due to local connections – are the others Noel Coward, Benny Hill and Horace Walpole?

But agreed – Hufflepuff would be much more sensible...

 

[John Duncan]

I don't know why I put 'OT', we're there already.

 

[altruistic.lemon]

You can use a computer. You can use the operating system. You can send files to the printer. You can save files on your HD. You presumably have a Wireless or Ethernet network in your house. You have a DAC already in your CD player.

Basically streaming involves the elements and concepts I've listed. You already understand the technology.

 

[Lee H]

OT: they have just introduced houses in my sons' primary school. They are both in 'Barnes Wallis', which strikes me as an unusual name for a house.

That'll bomb

 

[The_Lhc]

OT: they have just introduced houses in my sons' primary school. They are both in 'Barnes Wallis', which strikes me as an unusual name for a house.

Perhaps they're hoping the pupils in that house will be bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun?

Oh, hang on, I've got the wrong guy there...

 

[plastic penguin]

I don't know why I put 'OT', we're there already.

You're right - it's very warm outside...

 

[John Duncan]

OT: they have just introduced houses in my sons' primary school. They are both in 'Barnes Wallis', which strikes me as an unusual name for a house

Guess it must be due to local connections – are the others Noel Coward, Benny Hill and Horace Walpole?

Apparently so. BW worked at the NPL, says Wikipedia. There's an RD Blackmore house as well, though what the Deep Purple guitarist is doing in there, I don't know.

 

[plastic penguin]

...and was building (remote control) a low wing, single engined monoplane with the fusalage 80% finished, and I ran into my bedroom and trod on the damn thing. I was mortified. That was the final straw. Such is life.

A good job R J Mitchell and Barnes Wallis were a tad more tenacious.

Who?

The designer of the Spitfire and the designer of the Wellington bomber (and the bouncing bomb).

(I thought you were "Mr World War 2".)

Yes, I'm a foremost Barnes Wallis historian in... in my village. I don't very much about Mitchell apart from the books and documentaries I've seen. The bulk of my knowledge is the 'Home Front' and Coastal Command.

 

[plastic penguin]

OT: they have just introduced houses in my sons' primary school. They are both in 'Barnes Wallis', which strikes me as an unusual name for a house

Guess it must be due to local connections – are the others Noel Coward, Benny Hill and Horace Walpole?

Apparently so. BW worked at the NPL, says Wikipedia. There's an RD Blackmore house as well, though what the Deep Purple guitarist is doing in there, I don't know.

Yes, he tested the models for 'Upkeep' or 'Highball' at the National Physical Labs at Teddington. But he didn't work there on a permanent basis. His office was moved in 1940 from Brooklands (Weybridge) to a suit at http://www.burhillgolf-club.co.uk/. There's a plaque in the room where he and his team used until 45.

 

[Andrew Everard]

I'm a foremost Barnes Wallis historian in... in my village.

Sometimes it was lonely being the only Barnes Wallis historian in the village...

 

[plastic penguin]

I'm a foremost Barnes Wallis historian in... in my village.

Sometimes it was lonely being the only Barnes Wallis historian in the village...

He's pondering whether to stick with the Gramophone or stream...LOL

 

[Andrew Everard]

BW worked at the NPL, says Wikipedia.

Indeed: the testing work for the 'bouncing bomb' recreated in 1953 at the NPL for shooting of The Dam Busters

 

[plastic penguin]

BW worked at the NPL, says Wikipedia.

Indeed: the testing work for the 'bouncing bomb' recreated in 1953 at the NPL for shooting of The Dam Busters

Does that picture bring memories back for you too, Andrew?

 

[Andrew Everard]

He's pondering whether to stick with the Gramophone or stream...LOL

Oh, I think you'll find Gramophone's pretty much ahead of the game when it comes to streaming.

Does that picture bring memories back for you too, Andrew?

Yes – wet Sunday afternoons when the film always seemed to be on. Incidentally, the current Blu-ray transfer is excellent.

 

[John Duncan]

Oh, I think you'll find Gramophone's pretty much ahead of the game when it comes to streaming.

Sadly, I seem to recall it was met by some patrons in much the same way as Aberdonians feel about the outside world; "they ken fine it's there, they just dinnae like it, and they hae nae need for it"...