Well it's come at last the Airport is closing tomorrow 15th May with the loss of 150 jobs, such a real shame and there is already talk of building 1000 houses on the site, so that tells you something!
There is going to be a flypast today the 14th over the airfield but all can find out from the local news is quote" a world war 2 fighter"un quote, so i will be listening out hopefully for the sound of a Merlin.
Roger.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Well it looks like the Money has talked again as what i saw on our local SE news tonite it's just going though the motions,
As for what the PM said today i don't think they [Gov] want anything to do with it but of course i was forgetting the 30/40 Billion for the rail link from London to Birmingham,
No i had better stop says he, too right says i,
Sorry i'm getting into the West Country mode [will not be long now]
No Merlin sound that i heard today,
Roger.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
I spent many week-ends flying there as a Gliding Instructor for 617 Gliding School. I stayed in the Officers Mess. We were moved to there from Bovingdon when they built the VOR on the field for LHR holding patterns and it became a bit hazardous gliding under the Stack. Manston was a longer commute but it was worth it for the fun of the gliding and I carried on for perhaps a couple of years. I also did some Base Training there, for B.E.A., in the Vanguard as a Safety Pilot.
There have been many plans to make better use of iy over many years. OK money needed but surely viable. It is said the airport is in the wrong place as a gateway for England but that has never seemed to do Dover/Folkstone etc any harm.
It is almost as if an upper level never really wanted it to work, perhaps because it has a high real estate value for the elite.
All it takes is the will to make it work, but, alas in the UK that so often doesn't happen.
Garry
"In the world of virtual reality things are not always what they seem."
As a Dorset Boy trapped up North, I had no idea Manston was for the chop. So the airfield that took the brunt of the Luftwaffe onslaught, what with it being the closest to occupied France, is to be...houses....?
