at Newton, our electrician
and I always remember this,
he was a bit of an accident waiting to happen
actually this guy
and when you were doing your before flight checks
on the Chipmunks especially
in the hanger,
you had to make sure
that when you switched on any power,
nothing untoward happens
and when you, one of the things you had to do
on the Chipmunk when you were doing your before flight
is to get on the propellor
and just spin the prop two or three times,
just what you're doing there
is you're making sure that oil
that's accumulated in the bottom of the engine over night
is now distributed through the engine
'cause if you don't do that
and you try and start it, you can blow off to cinders.
And this chap was doing this
and the engine went bang, bang, bang and tried to start
because he put the magnetos
which is on which you're not supposed to do.
Fortunately there was nobody around.
The other thing he was notoriously famous for
was we bought a new kettle for the crew room
and he came and asked somebody how to write the plug.
He's an electrician.
