Base staff ignited the smudge pots, a mixture of combustibles and diesel fuel, laid out in a " C " pattern to guide the plane to the target, and extinguished all other lights at the base.
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He said base staff would ignite the smudge pots, a mixture of combustibles and diesel fuel, laid out in a ` C'pattern to guide the plane to the target and extinguish all other lights at the base.
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In Canada, aboriginal people used bitumen seeping out of the banks of the Athabasca and other rivers to waterproof birch bark canoes, and also heated it in smudge pots to ward off mosquitoes in the summer time.
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When the scene, which takes place at night during a sudden frost, is actually shot, the nocturnal gloom and billowing clouds of smoke from smudge pots will add an ethereal dimension as the actors use the paddles to fan warm air against the vines.
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The C-shaped line of " smudge pots " will guide them onto the drop zone at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, where a U . S . worker with a lump in her breast awaits the mercy flight's cargo of drugs and medical equipment.
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Rows of smudge pots in the growers'sheds ( some in empty shell casings from a nearby Army artillery range ) and airplane propellers mounted on tall shafts throughout the orchards ( to circulate the warmed air ) testify of the annual battle to fend off frost.
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A C-shaped line of blazing barrels _ called " smudge pots " _ guided the Starlifter transport plane into the drop zone only 150 feet ( 50 meters ) from the buildings at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, half a world away from the crew's home in California.
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The smudge pot was also used at construction sites and other cold places to take the chill out of buildings so workers would be comfortable, and for several decades ( 1920's-1970's ) they were used as emergency night landing illumination at remote airfields without electric runway lights, acting as a series of small bonfires.
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Some of the worst damage was in the Sacramento delta area, where freezing temperatures are uncommon and growers have not taken frost-protection measures that include installing wind machines, smudge pots or water spraying systems . ( Showering water on budding vines during a freeze encapsulates young shoots in a blanket of ice and protects them from lower outside temperatures .)
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Lloyd visited fruit farmers who used Smudge pot heaters to protect their crops; Hartley arranged for a part of the King George VI Reservoir that had been left empty for the duration of the war to be used for experiments; and Walker took to long walks on foggy nights wearing a government issue donkey jacket much to the puzzlement of his family.
