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Many moons ago, late 1980's, in Karumba we no airstrip lights.
When we had lost aircraft or RFDS coming in after dark we used Hurrican Lamps along the strip, 2 cars at the "Stop before you get here!" end & 1 car at the other end. Swapped the cars for take-off.
Worked well, all the lamps in the back of a Ute, 1 person lighting them & another putting them on the ground at suitable spacings while the Ute drove along at a very slow pace.
The pilots reckoned it was pretty good.
Before that we had used sand & diesel filled big beetroot tins, crap system, you would burn yourself, they were smoky, hard to light, affected by wind & the pilots said the were hard to see.
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