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Fl Lt J a Cowan and Sergeant Dick Guy of Rai- Brawdy Were Awarded the 1978 L G Groves Memorial Aircraft Safety Prize for Their Invention of the 'Brawdy Homer'

Fl Lt J. A. Cowan and Sergeant Dick Guy of RAI- Brawdy were awarded the 1978 L. G.

Groves Memorial Aircraft Safety Prize for their invention of the 'Brawdy Homer'. This instrument will enable ships to home on to any emergency locator transmitter used bypeople adrift in life rafts in the sea. Barry Dock's 52ft Arun helped with trials of the prototype and in this picture can be seen the twin aerials mounted one on each side of the radar platform..

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