Thanks for the info too. Any ideas how it got its name?

The name was arbitrary, have a look at this list for some other gems such as ‘Yellow Duckling’ ‘Red Sea’ and ‘Blue Water’

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rainbow_Codes

Hello, thanks for the interest.

As mentioned the Orange Putter was a rearward looking warning radar fitted to V bombers and some Canberras (B2, PR3, B6, PR7 and B(I)8). On the Canberra it was installed below the fin and from what I have been told not every aircraft actually had it fitted, for instance a 12 aircraft squadron may have only had Orange Putter in 6 aircraft.

Here is a brief description from ‘dcf’ on the Canberra forum “Orange Putter had a small circular G-scope CRT display on the pilot’s panel. Worked like a rear-view mirror – gave target azimuth and elevation – no range readout so target blip sprouted “wings” once it had closed to a preset range. The audio (on intercomm) was driven off the same circuit that produced the target blips – so I’d guess it beeped. It went into most of the early marks.”

I’ll keep looking.
Paul

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Thanks for the replies, I am informed that the Tracker is asbestos free except for some parts of the engines. This could be wrong though.
Paul