IIRC a hot fuel and spin on a tonka would be over the right as the fuel goes in the right side so you leave the LH turning.

I pity the fool trying to climb in and out of the other side........
schloopp....

Re: Mounting from behind - the USN's C-9 is configured exactly for that! With the door at the front is it known as a "spit roast"?! :}

http://www.navair.navy.mil/img/uploa...%20loading.jpg

In the Navy...............
 

Mounting from behind.....


Of course they do, the clue is in the name painted on the side of the aircraft.

An outstanding thread
 

...much amusement reading this.
Informative, juvenile and not one chance for a double entendre missed!
All in the best proon tradition. :)

90% of the worlds population of motorcyclists mount their stead from the left - the remainder are all left handed devil children.

One would assume that there is something in our makeup that makes cocking a right foot over the side first to be an easier or more natural (for right handed normal folk) task.

I wonder if people are right-footed as they are right-handed. Surely even kids with their first bike will get from the left, right-foot first. That also means that you right hand is the first on the controls.

Also, for car-dwelling Americans, getting into something you intend to drive from the left side is automatic.

I recall that the Swedes had a reason for left-hand hinge, right-side entry on the Gripen. I think that it was because the whole cockpit was small, and it meant that you would not get tangled up with the throttle.

Where and how the left-hand entrance (and right-hand service and support) convention for commercial aircraft got established, I have no idea, but it was universal very early on.

I remember reading somewhere that most pilots instinctively prefer rolling and spinning left (and left-hand circuits) but right-hand barrel rolls.

...and formating on the right wing and having the AAR probe on the left. That's mainly because of cockpit layout and (in side-by-side, non-helo) the controlling pilot sitting on the left.

Re: Motorcycles

Which came first? The side stand or the leg? That's the reason I always mount my Trumpy from the left...