Talk:RAF Manston

message: I have undone the redirect here, for the sake of categories. If we don't do this then 'Kent International Airport' shows up in the 'Royal Air Force bases' category with no explanation. Until we can override the text that appears in the category, I suggest that this is the least confusing approach. DJ Clayworth 03:33, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I have restored the RAF Manston article, splitting relevant information from Kent International Airport, as they are clearly different things!  The history of the RAF airbase is of only passing relevance to the commercial operation, and having a separate article will allow the addition of new information (RAF Manston crest for instance)
Apart from this, there is still a military base here (FSCTE Manston), which has been in continuous operation as part of the RAF operation since 1959!  This article allows successful linking between articles, and is of historical relevance
Thanks Owain.davies 16:37, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Restoration of Article

message: This article (and the one on Kent International Airport) states the Thanet airfield was 
a small and precarious landing strip for aircraft at Westgate, above the cliffs at the foot of the sea where a seaplane had been based at the end of the promenade.
This doesn't make sense, but I do not know enough about Thanet to correct it 
Arjayay (talk) 08:23, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right, the wording doesn't make sense.  The strip was at St. Mildreds bay, on top of the cliff, with several planes overshooting!  OwainDavies (about)(talk) edited at 15:56, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Thanet Landing Strip Location?

message: The article says that USAF withdraw from the airport in 1960, but I distinctly remember, when visiting my grandparents in St Peter's under Manston's flight path in the 1970s, regularly seeing USAF KC-135 refuelling aircraft operating from Manston. It would obviously be original research for me to add my own reminiscences to the article, and I don't have time to look for sources at the moment, but anyone interested in this article may want to follow this lead. Phil Bridger (talk) 18:14, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  USAF usage after 1960 

message: There's so much to write about Manston, that I thought we really couldn't justify the following which has only a tenuous link - but might be worth a brief mention in the Ramsgate or Goodwin Sands articles?
:An item of some interest and great curiosity relating to the inter-war history of Manston and its personnel, is one of the long list of inspired rescues off the Thanet coast. A link between the airfield and the Goodwin Sands is revealed in the pages of: The History of R.A.F Manston by Flt. Lt. Rocky Stockman RAF, and is told by Wing Commander Bryson who recalled an adventure at sea involving the high speed launches stationed at Ramsgate Harbour in 1936 for duty with the no. 48 (gr) Squadron.
:He reports: "we had two of these launches, equipped with old aero engines by a firm in Cowes - they had never run for more than 15 minutes without conking out. One afternoon the Royal Temple Yacht Club had a race from Ramsgate. A squall blew up and the yachts ran aground on the treacherous quicksands. With trepidation I ordered out the two high speed rescue launches, which, miraculously, managed to keep going and rescued the boats - as if old Culmer White had been watching over them!" Le Deluge (talk) 13:38, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing yacht rescue 

message: There is no mention that Manston was a base for filming, and probably had the unique honour of hosting a large collection of German aircraft on UK soil?  I cycled up to see them from St Lawrence Ramsgate in the summer of 1968(approx) and watched filming overhead Ramsgate and local sea area.PeterPEarl (talk) 11:13, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Battle of Britain (film) 

message: There is a lot of info about the various squadrons and numbers of planes which the USAF had there during the Cold War period.  In contrast, the info about the squadrons and numbers of planes and even the various planes themselves that were stationed there during WWII is relatively scanty, IMO.  Boscaswell talk 18:42, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Balance of info in article 

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