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Old 18th Jan 2018, 13:30
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DaveReidUK
 
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Originally Posted by wub
Shackman: I think the radar deployed to Belize was a mobile AR1. There was one at Chivenor in the 70s, which I helped load into Belfast ‘Canopus’ on deployment to Germany.
I don't recall a Belfast named Canopus - the RAF's had legendary names: Samson, Goliath, Pallas, Hector, Atlas, Heracles, Theseus, Spartacus, Ajax and Enceladus.

It was the Britannias that were named after heavenly bodies.
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