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Old 17th Jan 2018, 12:24
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Shackman
 
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There was a portable radar in Belize which came out in a Belfast. I don't know what happened to it when the Belfasts went because it was too big to go in a Hercules.
Was that No 1ACC - air portable so long as you had 16 Argosies (or may be just 1 Belfast) available. However, as it required so many air assets that when it was deployed in UK it (all) went by road from its base in East Anglia. I really would like to thank the planning team that sent it to Lossiemouth in the mid '70's on a Sunday at the start of the summer holidays. The (very long) convoy of Queen Mary's seemed to have a top speed of 20 mph - by the time it reached Aviemore going up the A9, which in those days was a fairly windy single carriage road, the traffic jam was back to Perth. It took me just over 14 hours to get back to Lossie as opposed to the normal 3 to 4 hours; I reached the front of the traffic jam, or the back of the rearmost Queen Mary, about 10 miles out from Lossie!
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