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Oh I remember them too I walked there once, I will never forget seeing the "shock waves" (technically shock diamonds) in an F-4 Phantom doing a display there and the feeling of massive power.Teesside is also my local airport, i live approximately 9miles away.
Its one of my favourites for the airshows i attended as a child in the 1970's.
Duxford is another again for more modern airshows and also the amazing museum and fantastic history.
Duxford Aerodrome - Wikipedia
Yes i think my father-in-law is the only person i know that was aware of RAF Greatham.rochie The least spectacular of all the airfields I know about has to be RAF Greatham, I worked in the Hartlepool pipe factory (pic below) for 4 years, with many people young and old from Greatham and no one ever mentioned that it was built on a WW2 fighter airfield, possibly because almost nothing happened. It is on the right hand side as you go into Hartlepool from Billingham,
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RAF Greatham - Wikipedia
That's cheating, he isn't on the race circuit, you managed to have a pic of the footbridge and chicane that I couldn't find anywhere on the net without paying.
Looking back there were a lot of people involved in motorsport, my sisters boyfriend and my supervisor in R&D at Hartlepool both raced stock cars. There was a huge "gang" of friends who did rallying, I remember counting 8 Saab 96s and 2 Ford Escorts parked outside theirs and almost everyone else's houses one Sunday a helluva sight to see. My colleague in 1978 -83 and some years later (we worked together on a project for Brazil 10 years ago) was a rally fanatic, probably was either a marshall or a competitor in that rally and had an Mk 1 RS 1800 Escort as in the pic but yellow (it was far from standard). He was reprimanded by the works manager for doing "hand brake turns" on the gravel in the car park, the "turns" started at 60MPH lol.Start of the stage was in the pit lane, into the circuit in the reverse direction used for race days, and then off into the "ullu", on the rough, where the dispersals used to be around the perimeter, and back to the parc ferme near the pit lane for the end of the stage. Length of the stage was around 3 to 4 miles, from memory.
Couple more pics below, from the 1975 RAC rally, showing parts of Croft the public don't normally see.
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