On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:09:56 -0700 (PDT), Dawlish
wrote:

Of course, in WW2, as I'm sure you know, with your experience,
airfields were cleared of for by burning diesel on either side of the
runways.

This was FIDO, Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation.

The fuel was, in fact, petrol usually obtained from the airfields own
fuel dump.

During the war I lived near Blackbushe where a lot of the development
was carried out and can remember seeing the glow in the sky when the
system was under test.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_Inv...n_%28FIDO% 29

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