Single Engine Taxi

[Ernie Martin]

Jim's tale of the lineman reminds me of two about the Skymaster. Both happened in the Bahamas, on remote islands.

Landing at one airport, where a landing fee applied only to twins, the collector looked out at the aircraft and asked "What's that a single or a twin?" and I said (with a straight face) "It's a single -- the one in the back is a spare."

On another trip, the lineman asked "How come one engine facing one way and the other facing the other way?" and because of the way the question was posed I couldn't pass up this answer: "I use the front when going East, the back when going West."

Ernie