Even the Lamella hangar has gone now. Nissan bulldozed it last year and didn’t tell anyone. Listed building too! NEAM have a small section of it, maybe a girder I think. I really should walk over and ask…. There is nothing of RAF Usworth / Sunderland Airport left. Just some lumps in the ground where the RAF buildings used to be.

Give NEAM all your money!

Here I am, less than 400 yards from her… Not only has the airfield gone, but also most of the mag alloy skin… such a shame. Unless Neam get some funding and a big hangar to keep her in, she’ll be the next to get the chop.

Has anyone thought of contacting HHA (Hawker Hunter Aviation)? They are involved, as I’m sure you know, in using hunters, a Mig, and hopefully a Buccaneer as dissimilar aircraft trainers in the combat agressor role. They might be able to lease the aircraft and use her as she was intended – being agressive! Just a thought…

Lets hope that no matter what happens, she stays in the air. I heard a story that not too long ago she was involved briefly in a bit of a mock dogfight with some RAF Tornados and managed to beat them off… any truth there?

Before everyone starts howling with laughter, I’m a spirituallist medium (and aircraft mechanic).

I have spent a fair amount of time around the lincoln at cosford and have not picked up anything significant. I know that talking about ghosts tends to rub alot of people up the wrong way, so I’ll make it brief and please note, THESE ARE MY PERSONAL BELIEFS AND I DO NOT EXPECT ANYONE TO TAKE ANY NOTICE OF THEM!!!! I’m simply answering the thread!

All I could sense was residual energy as opposed to a proper haunting. It has been said that every building or structure (aircraft) where someone has lived, worked or died has the potential to be haunted, so perhaps this is just the energy left from when the aircraft was in service. Maybe it has special memories connected to it, or even just the aircraft type.

Alot has been written about haunted airfields, and even Living TV’s Most Haunted program visited North East Aircraft Museum a few years back, so I’m not going to elaborate here.

Just keep an open mind…..

All glossy black small business type jet at roof top level across Goole 14.15 heading east. Looked a lot like the aircraft that work on contract with the Hunters. Are they on the east coast ranges today ?

Possibly FR Aviation’s Falcon 20’s or BAe Dominie?

You could always badger Kermit Weeks to get his Sunderland painted properly and its turrets re fitted, and then persuade him to offer carribbian cruises (like Plane Sailing used to do)….. maybe he could buy a Martin Mars too….

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it is… I had a trawl through, and there it was. nuts