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Sarah|ˈsɛərə|
[f. search and rescue and homing.]
Name given to a portable radio transmitter used by wrecked airmen to signal their position to rescue ships or aircraft. Also attrib.
1955Times 31 Aug. 8/3 ‘Sarah’, the device demonstrated yesterday, weighs only about 3lb. and can be carried in a Mae West. It contains a beacon battery of 24 hours operating capacity which can send signals to a Shackleton aircraft 75 miles away. A wrecked airman can start ‘Sarah’ working quite easily and can speak on it to those who are searching for him. 1956Times 18 July 10/7 Tryout for ‘Sarah’..‘Sarah’, the R.A.F.'s new air-sea rescue system, had its first real test yesterday. 1962S. Carpenter in Into Orbit 59 One of these beacons, a British invention called ‘Sarah’—for ‘Search and Rescue and Homing’—put out the signal that helped tell the search planes exactly where I was. Ibid. 60 There was one Sarah beacon aboard the capsule. |