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Old 26-08-04, 23:09
Richard Notton
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Originally posted by Vets Dottir
Don't blame ME Master R. The slang part was a hook I believe from my "Slang Teacher" no names mentioned, of course.

The educational part? Don't let the slang stop the education ... Oh please, oh please? I shall behave now
Awl right, awl right, settle down FIDO; you'll disturb Veare, she's been asleep all day and needs to sleep all night, its what cats do best; now. . . . .pay attention.

FIDO.

Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation (FIDO) was one of the most remarkable wartime inventions and was responsible for saving thousands of lives of Allied aircrew during WWII. In the early stages of the war RAF bombers returning from operations sometimes found their airfields completely fog-bound. Desperately short of fuel and often disabled by battle damage there were numerous crash-landings which took a high toll of men and machines. The answer was FIDO, the child of the government's Petroleum Warfare Department which had been prompted by Winston Churchill. The system consisted of lines of burners fuelled by thousands of gallons of petrol and installed beside the runways, which literally burnt the fog off airfields thus allowing much safer take-offs and landings.

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