FIDO
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A good day out (when some sort of normality returns) is a visit to https://www.metheringhamairfield.co.uk/ where at least the pump house for the FIDO installation is on display. The airfield has gone back to agriculture but the visitor centre is a gem.
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They might have tried FIDO at Eureka?Arcata, California when that was their instrument-landing experimental airport. And LAX had one-- dunno for how long, or how many times it was used. As I recall the fuel cost around $100 per minute.
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Follow any very large jet down the approach (with wake turbulence separation taken into account) and there's your "jet-engine" powered FIDO..... especially if they go-around from Minimums and briefly warm all the air up for your approach.
The Aeroplane for 10 Dec 1948 says the Blackbushe FIDO cost 125 pounds (sterling, not avoirdupois) per minute, after it had warmed up; the issue for 3 January 1947 says fuel for the Manston FIDO cost 15000 pounds per hour. Articles in Flight: 6 March 1947 p193, 13 May 1948, 21 Nov 1952 p634, 28 Nov 1952 p670.
Flight 3 March 1949 says the LAX FIDO was complete, 6000 feet long: American Aviation says it started 2000 feet short of the end of the runway and burned 1750 gallons per minute of No 2 diesel fuel.
Flight 3 March 1949 says the LAX FIDO was complete, 6000 feet long: American Aviation says it started 2000 feet short of the end of the runway and burned 1750 gallons per minute of No 2 diesel fuel.
