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This was my favourite plane, ever. Alas, got broken up for spares a couple of years ago after the engine came to end of it's life. The red knob, as I recall was mixture, and the two white ones are cabin air and cabin heat. The flap lever was a handbrake job. I miss this little tin parachute.

@@welshspaceagency We had one two-seat version with a "handbrake" flap lever which I got to like as it was more definite than pressing the switch and counting 2 seconds! That was the favourite for soloing in. It was corrosion from fertilizers spread on the airfield over the years that finished all our planes. They were very safe aircraft, hard to spin but fun to fly. The LE slats used to scare some passengers as they didn't know who was moving them!

@@karhukivi The wing slats were hilarious. Which is what makes my daughter laugh in this film - as they always jerked out during climb out from 04 at Welshpool.

I loved that old plane.

Glad you like it. Take a look at this then: czcams.com/video/0LumR2QMd8g/video.html

Hello Nigel. I can heartily recommend it.

Thank you Paul. ;-)

Why thank you Richard. Just pouring a bit more of our nonsense into a world already gone mad. Trust you're well up there in Abercegir? We're well south of you these days.

Brilliant! I’m always looking over my shoulder now

Hi Cyril. We just posted out a certificate for member # 1138. If you're quick you could be #1139.

Thank you Jane. The offcuts weren't real by the way.

Thank you Anthony, and congratulations on finding my films in the wilderness of youtube. One of my film-poems just got selected for Wales International Film Festival. Look up "What Happens When You Die"

@@welshspaceagency Yes I saw it - I think it linked from your facebook page which is how I found it. You might have seen my take on the HoW line. Less poetic but more case of, 'Click, clack, click clack, baby change on the luggage rack.' czcams.com/video/jl6yav8nMlM/video.html

@@AnthonyFrancisJones That's a great wee video Anthony. And you have such happy child. HOWL is a gorgeous railway. Free to people of my age in winter months too. Meanwhile, I wonder have you ever thought of joining IAC or submitting your films to BIAFF? I am on council of both and editor of the society magazine Film & Video Maker. go to theiac.org.uk. Competition opens on 1st Sept.

@@welshspaceagency Thanks Martin. I thought of giving it a go. Was not sure which to use at the time and was a bit confused about the requirements. I read that they had to begin with quite a bit of black lead in (I suppose I could have done a quick re-edit) and possible issues that they had been on a monetised bit of CZcams already. I must have another look!

@@AnthonyFrancisJones They ask for 10 seconds of black before the start. I'll ask about that because I don't know why they do . I always have to re-edit mine too. It might be a throwback. Definitely give it a go - your science films would be worthy of some of the awards. If you join, you get my magazine for free too and cheap/free entry to the BIAFF comp.

And the horizontal line under BT is the 3 metre mark.

Thank you. And as can be read in our book: www.telegraphpoleappreciationsociety.org/product/telegraph-pole-appreciation-for-beginners/

Thank you. Do tell your friends :-)

Hi John. All good here. Every day spent renovating. Just one more year of this to go then the big life plan kicks in. A ride off into the sunset we hope. Have a place in Donegal now so escaping the Russian owned kleptocracy that is Britain. I trust you are good, healthy and happy up there in Betws G.G?

@@welshspaceagency still here!

@@welshspaceagency Good luck in Donegal..It's a weird place though. It might not be a Klepocracy over there but everything is done on a nod and a wink and back handers. Hence the ruination of traditional coastal villages by totally innappropriate developments. Traditional houses empty and falling down next to bloody big haciendas and tacky new builds. Coming over from Wales where the planning laws are strict and vernacular architecture is preserved, I was shocked at how planning laws were non existent over there. I think its a case of the politicians and planners being in the pocket of the developers. In a way its a bit like Sicily. Money doesn't talk it swears!

Agree with all that you say about here (Donegal, from where I write presently). It's a complete fookin' mess over here. McMansions built pretty much anywhere. They are, outwardly at least, seeming to get their act together. Remains to be seen. Bungalow blight is prevalent in Donegal. (Good footy to be had at Derry City FC mind you).

Filming imminent in the next instalment for this character :-) Glad you liked it. Feedback like yours makes it all worthwhile.

Hey, I'm glad you looked. Now, do check out 2 of my other films in my welshspaceagency account: The Pole Liner and also Bite Off. They might be up your street. Bite Off won 5* at BIAFF 2019.

Then you Sir, should watch this: czcams.com/video/0LumR2QMd8g/video.html

I think I love you <3

@@welshspaceagency it happens all the time

@@welshspaceagency have a look at my vids, maybe there's something there that will make you stop and look?

@@squirrelhughes43 I certainly did. I like your John Shuttleworth / Bo Selecta. And Wrexham is my home town (and footy club).

@@welshspaceagency me too! we should do a duo sometime by the Turf

we are, but the only Elbonians that can translate this keep getting caught at the border and shot.

Perhaps when the Elbonian Space Program 🚀 gets on its feet they’ll be able to launch a satellite 🛰 📡 and broadcast worldwide. Can’t be long now… I heard they found an old V2 and have an escaped North Korean scientist work for them now.

Hello Marcelo, this film was only ever made to be an insert into another video I made called "Bite Off". You can see the whole here: czcams.com/video/OhETf4fMwYY/video.html

@@welshspaceagency As a nail biter myself you have my attention!!! 😹😹😹 By the way, my comment about Ricardo Espalter was to signal a happy coincidence. Thanks for your answer 👍 Your channel has very interesting material and deserves to have more views and subcriptios. But it depends on the CZcams 's algorithm arbitrio.

@@DIY-valvular Thank you. I have no idea how to get more views, alas. I just enjoy making films.

Hi John, Though it seems quite the faff (phaph?) Keri has it off to a tee (tea?) and whizzes through the process every three days. And the end result is well worth it. Trust you're well up there ? :-)

In North America, treatment of a typical Southern Yellow Pine Class 3 45' pole will last 60 years under standard conditions. That's pretty reliable information. If the pressure treated pole is poorly manufactured, you can have "shell rot" which is where the sides of the pole from top to bottom have "flaking" sections of outside wood cracking free of the core. In the U. S. we experimented with concrete poles and placed many of them for electric utility and telecom with some success. Their drawbacks were plenty. Extremely heavy, difficult to make changes (unlike wooden poles) once the pole was in the "field", and expensive. Some of the first concrete power poles used in the Americas go back to the Panama Canal construction, where they were smaller but were used to successful effect. Spalling will occur on concrete over time, but concrete doesn't rot at the base typically and because of their weight, do not require guying (or stays). What structures are now being successfully implemented are "composite poles." These are made of wooden strips pressure glued, like plywood only in long lengths. There are many new installations and they seem to be holding up quite well. Because they are rectangular from top to bottom, it is like sticking a wide stick in the ground and the ability for it to turn or radically twist is made impossible by stress on top of the pole.

Cheers John. Just the occasional headache now and my parietal lobe still gives me a bit of gyp - especially on cold days. Remarkable really considering that was a .303 inch round from close range. :-) Trust you're well ?

Thank you. It always makes my day to know it pleases folk. Haven't finished with that character yet.

So are you saying there should never be a vote ever again? By your logic, we should accept the present Tory government for evermore as their presence in Downing St. was the will of the people. Living in a democracy allows us to campaign for as many votes on as many different scenarios as we like. I suspect you don't like that idea because you fear you may lose a further referendum on the subject? Even though the outcome would be the will of the people that you speak so highly of.

I'm an ordinary person. I'm very much working class too. Voting is the most sincere expression of democracy. I don't live in a bubble though. Thank you for your thoughts anyway.