Dangerous things, still in use in the second half of the 1960s. The night flying brief included the warning to turn onto the runway slowly in order to avoid fuel venting in the vicinity of the them. At least they were reasonably easy to see which is more than can be said for the “glim light” that replaced them. The later L3 portable airfield light was a much more satisfactory piece of kit.
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Still in use in the early half of the 70’s!!!!! held 1 gallon of paraffin. (there’s still two in the oil shed at Andrewsfield)
I nearly set fire to a landrover @ Wattisham…proper way was to place snuffer over flame. laziest way to extinguish was to drive alongside the gooseneck rev the engine and blow it out, unfortuately got a bit too enthusiastic and blow the can over and set light to the grass and part of the rear tyre…
Replaced by Glims then LE58’s…. ask any AATC in the RAF at the time if they liked putting out and maintaing the emergency flarepaths 🙂
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