"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" wrote in message
om...

I can recall bailing out of a C-172... twice.... at a grass strip because
a wasp flew out of the wing root air vent. Fortunately it was very early
in the take off run so I just pulled the mixture, stopped it, and ran like
hell. When I thought he was gone, I tried again. The same thing
happened.


I have a friend with a life-threatening allergy to wasp stings. He once
nearly killed himself in a truck when a wasp got into the cab and he
immediately forgot that he was driving while attending to this new threat.

I often wondered if there are any pilots with this condition. It always
seemed to me that it would be fairly common for wasps to get into those 70's
Cessna cockpits.