Captain Ben Fawcett has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new service.
The 'taxi' is a small Swiss aeroplane called a 'Pilatus Porter'. This
wonderful plane can carry seven passengers. The most surprising thing about
it, however, is that it can land anywhere: on snow, water, or even on a
ploughed field. Captain Fawcett's first passenger was a doctor who flew from
Birmingham to a lonely village in the Welsh mountains. Since then, Captain
Fawcett has flown passengers to many unusual places. Once he landed on the
roof of a block of flats and on another occasion, he landed in a deserted car
park. Captain Fawcett has just refused a strange request from a businessman.
The man wanted to fly to Rockall, a lonely island in the Atlantic Ocean, but
Captain Fawcett did not take him because the trip was too dangerous.&