History of Manston Airfield - From 1916 to the present day
On 7th November 1945, Group Captain Hugh Joseph Wilson, CBE, AFC, Royal Air Force, Commandant of the Empire Test Pilots’ School, Cranfield, set the first world speed record with a jet-propelled airplane, and the first...
Published with permission from ‘Bloody Paralyser – The Giant Handley Page Bombers of the First World War’ by Rob Langham (Fonthill Media, 2016). Following the first flight of the Handley Page O/100 in late 1915, the...
Troops preparing to board British Horsa type gliders at Manston Air Base, England. Believed to be before or during Operation Market Garden. A slowing advance and a plan By September 1944, Paris and Brussels had been...
Pilots of No. 601 (County of London) Squadron run to their waiting Hurricane aircraft at RAF Northolt, 9 January 1941. Squadron scramble staged for General ‘Hap’ Arnold, USAAF. © IWM (HU 2408) New Luftwaffe tactics...
On this day, 28th August 1940 The Prime Minister Winston Churchill inspects bomb damage caused by Luftwaffe night raids in Ramsgate, Kent, England on 28 August 1940 © IWM (H 3514) Manston’s importance was recognised...
Luftwaffe Recon photo some time after raids of 24/08/1940 Six heavy attacks, the first at 0600hrs (TBC) when approximately 80 aircraft crossed the coast to Thanet, left Manston unserviceable after the heavy raid at 1520hrs,...
Battle of Britain Day, 15th September 1940
15 Sep, 2018
Manston: 100 Years of Flight Project
29 Aug, 2018
Rise and Defend – The USAF At Manston 1950-1958
31 Aug, 2006
Manston’s role on D-Day, 6th June 1944
6 Jun, 2018
