The Flying Bomb

At a remote airstrip near the Rio Cocaineo two small military aircraft landed to refuel. While fuel was being pumped by hand from drums into his airplane, the senior officer was confronted by the distraught youngster piloting the second craft.

"I'm flying a bomb," he announced. "There's something wrong with the fuel line, and the cockpit's full of fumes. What shall I do ?"

The commander, knowing the airstrip, cut from the dense Brazilian jungles to help fight drug traffic, offered no repair facilities at all, replied calmly, "Don't smoke !"