Just watched a recording of the programme last night.
Not very impressed. The Whirlwind was said to have rescued survivors from the Sir Galahad during the Falklands War. Pretty impossible as it was retired long before the war started.
The story of Augustin Preucil is well documented and was featured at length in Aeroplane Monthly.
The details concerning the loss of Sgt Shaw are well documented at the museum.
As for hangar one being haunted I presonally spent many hours in this building during nearly twenty years of involvement with the museum. Yes it is true bits and pieces fall from the roof. But this is not surprising as there is much up there for the birds to knock off.
It may have been good television for those who do not know the museum. However I think some of the research was clearly flawed. Call me a sceptic but I never had any paranormal experiences.
The only stories I ever heard of any haunting always surrounded the Lamellar hangar on the old airfield site. These involved a former Canadian pilot, a sergeant if I remember, who was reputed to have crashed on the airfield. However my records from the ORB’s for the units that flew from Usworth have failed to support this loss.
Incidentally although there were no operational losses from Usworth there were 36 pilots who lost their life to accidents during training.
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