 on a scrap piece of wood or an old guitar.
Chris- I know you’ve had that Thames for awhile, what made you decide to do this? I just bought a new guitar myself that also does not have the dots. Since I am a beginner, I just assumed that I needed to learn to play without them.
Lee, when I ordered my guitar I actually specified that I wanted a dot. But Michael had one come up that someone couldn’t buy when it was ready. So I took that one, and it didn’t have a dot.
Seth did his guitar first, and I was tired of putting white out on mine. Seemed like the right choice. I very happy with the dot.
My solution to the white dot on the guitar is even easier. You need only a small amount of white nail varnish and mark the arm of the guitar on the different places. I have done that on three guitars, no problem.
I simply used white text correction fluid. Dried up, and that it!
…so I guess the drill bit wasn’t supposed to come out the other side of the neck, eh?
I am a Novis and person’s who have placed there remarks on this subject could well know a lot more than I do, and know what they are talking about in the field of Classical Guitar, but surely anything ( which is in the correct bounds of the Guitar ) that helps you play the score correctly aiding you also in your fluent playing is a great help.
When did these indecater’s first appear? was it 18th Cent or 19th? and I assume they were not placed at these Vital Location just for decoration, there must have been a deffinatr reason do you not think?.
Well that is my two penny worth from a Novic.McDonnell Douglas F-15 STOL/MTD

The McDonnell Douglas F-15 STOL/MTD (Short Takeoff and Landing/Maneuver Technology Demonstrator) is a modified F-15 Eagle. Developed as a technology demonstrator, the F-15 STOL/MTD carried out research for studying the effects of thrust vectoring and enhanced maneuverability. The aircraft used for the project was pre-production TF-15A (F-15B) No. 1 (USAF S/N 71-0290), the first two-seat F-15 Eagle built by McDonnell Douglas (out of 2 prototypes), the sixth F-15 off the assembly line, and was the oldest F-15 flying up to its retirement. It was also used as the avionics testbed for the F-15E Strike Eagle program. The plane was on loan to NASA from the United States Air Force.
This same aircraft would later be used in the F-15 ACTIVE ("Advanced Control Technology for Integrated Vehicles") from 1993 to 1999, and later in the Intelligent Flight Control System programs from 1999 to 2008.
While with NASA, the aircraft's tail number was 837. The aircraft is now on display at Edwards AFB.
Design and development.
In 1975, Langley Research Center began to conduct sponsored programs studying two-dimensional thrust vectoring nozzles; government and industry studies of non-axisymmetric two-dimensional (2-D) nozzles in the early 1970s had identified significant payoffs for thrust-vectoring 2-D nozzle concepts.
In 1977, Langley started a system integration study of thrust-vectoring, thrust-reversing, and 2-D nozzles on the F-15 with McDonnell Douglas. In 1984, the Flight Dynamics Laboratory, the Air Force Aeronautical Systems Division awarded a contract to McDonnell Douglas for an advanced development STOL/MTD experimental aircraft.
The aircraft used in the STOL/MTD program has flown several times since the successful STOL/MTD program completion in 1991 that used thrust vectoring and canard foreplanes to improve low-speed performance. This aircraft tested high-tech methods for operating from a short runway. This F-15 was part of an effort to improve ABO (Air Base Operability), the survival of warplanes and fighting capability at airfields under attack.
The F-15 STOL/MTD tested ways to land and take off from wet, bomb-damaged runways. The aircraft used a combination of reversible engine thrust, jet nozzles that could be deflected by 20 degrees, and canard foreplanes. Pitch vectoring/reversing nozzles and canard foreplanes were fitted to the F-15 in 1988. NASA acquired the plane in 1993 and replaced the engines with Pratt &amp; Whitney F100-229 engines with Pitch/Yaw vectoring nozzles. The canard foreplanes were derived from the F/A-18's stabilators.
Prior to 15 August 1991, when McDonnell Douglas ended its program after accomplishing their flight objectives, the F-15 STOL/MTD plane achieved some impressive performance results:
Further modifications.
During the 1990s the same F-15 airframe (USAF S/N 71-0290) was further modified (canards and nozzles were retained) for the ACTIVE ("Advanced Control Technology for Integrated Vehicles") program in which Pitch/Yaw Balance Beam Nozzles (P/YBBN) and advanced control-logic programming were investigated. In the ACTIVE configuration it was also used for the LANCETS ("lift and nozzle change effects on tail shock") program, in which computed supersonic shockwave parameters were compared to those measured in flight. The LANCETS flight tests ended in December 2008. F-15 ACTIVE lasted from 1993 to 1999.
The aircraft would later be used in the F-15 IFCS (Intelligent Flight Control System) program from 1999 to 2008. The airplane was also used for the Space-Based Range Demonstration and Certification project under the Exploration Communications and Navigation Systems program (SBRDC/ECANS) from 2006 to 2007, High Stability Engine Control (HISTEC) program, and High-Speed Research Acoustics in 1997.
In popular culture.
Patlabor 2: The Movie.
In a scene from the 1993 animated film, set in the year 2002, two pairs of F-15 STOL/MTDs (flights "Wizard" and Priest") are scrambled to intercept a flight of three rogue F-16Js (flight "Wyvern"). Taking into account the, at the time, futuristic nature of some of the technology, analysis and commentary from subject matter experts has been favorable for its authenticity from a military perspective.Campaigners for equal rights for transsexuals suffered a double blow yesterday after European judges rejected a lecturer's claim to be recognised as the father of his partner's children.
The European Court of Human Rights backed the United Kingdom's right not to regard Stephen Whittle as a father - even though he had been in a stable relationship with the mother of the four children for eight years - because he had been born a woman.
After the ruling, a disappointed Dr Whittle, from Manchester, held out the hope that a Labour government would amend the law, telling BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "They (Labour) have offered a pledge to take the matter on board... I'm sure we will see some change in the law."
However, within hours of the decision a Labour spokeswoman told The Independent: "We have no plans to change the law in this area at all."
Campaigners saw this as a rebuff by the party - possibly dictated by electoral concerns - following "private" assurances in the past it would be sympathetic to their claims, and the party's support for a Private Member's Bill on the subject last year.
However Dr Whittle, who underwent surgery 20 years ago, said the pressure of litigation would continue, even though his own case had reached the end of the legal line.
"More and more people are going to be pursuing cases to the court demanding ultimate recognition. I am sure it will come in time," he said.
Later this year the Court is to hear an application by two other British transsexuals to be able to amend their birth certificates to register their change of sex. Yesterday's ruling in Strasbourg surprised some observers because the court had, unusually, gone against the majority opinion of the Human Rights Commission, which advises the court. One campaigner said she was "in a state of shock" over the verdict and was now much less optimistic about the pending case.
The ruling also appears to conflict in spirit with a ruling last year by the separate European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, part of the European Union, which equated discrimination against transsexuals with sex discrimination. The Strasbourg court said there was a lack of agreement between Convention signatories and would allow the British Government a "wide margin" on interpreting the law.
It accepted the Government's view that while transsexuals can alter documents like passports and driving licences to reflect sex changes, birth certificates record the gender at birth and cannot be altered by subsequent events.
Dr Whittle pointed out this also stopped him adopting the children, who were conceived by donor insemination.
Adoption required him to be married to his partner Sarah, which was not legally possible, he said. It meant that the four children - who have all been born since the start of the relationship and call him Daddy - had no father in the eyes of the law.
Dr Whittle said the situation meant he could not obtain information about his children from their schools or authorise medical treatment. "And if my partner, Sarah, died, I would have no automatic right to bring up the children.
"I find it very difficult to cope with the fact