"Mark Rand" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:05:06 -0500, "Flash"
wrote:



Heck, one foggy night at Randolph AFB, in 1957 a mosquito landed on our
ramp
and we put 40 gal of avgas into him before the chief determined he was not
just another B-25.

Flash



Oh ye of little faith, He ain't (necessarily) making it up ;-)

British mosquito:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Mosquito


Mark Rand
RTFM


yeah, that's the way i read it the first time (wood aircraft) but then
re-read it and started to see the joke. that's awesome, to have seen,
touched, and interacted positively with a real flying de havilland mosquito.

b.w.