Manston August 11 2007

[ianhind]

@Garry
From calypsos post it looks like the fire school is still there.

@Prop Jockey
I don't visit there very often, but this is the first time that the derelict has outnumbered those likely to fly out of there. MK DC-8, MK Boeing 747, An-124 have been there on previous visits (can't find my log for last year right now).

When EU Jet were active, there was talk of running a railway loop from the London to Channel Tunnel line into Manston. That seems to have gone quiet now.

[Prop Jockey]

Cheers Ian,

I'm sure they even lose some of their instrument training traffic thesedays too, with Lydd adding an ILS which is more fun to fly (DME arc to an offset localiser because of the danger area on the coast).

And Lydd it would seem, have tried to follow-in Manstons footsteps - having ploughed money into their infrastructure, with the ILS, new terminal building and runway resurface in a bid to attract commercial operators. But the only commercial traffic they seem to have attracted was the one commerical operator they had to start with - the Lydd Air Trislander to Le Touquet

It seems creating 'London Kent International Airport' aint that easy :-(

Cheers

Rich

[Hot_Charlie]

.... and it's still a whoping 61m wide :o (which did enable me to get an Archer out of there many years ago - by taking off diagonally across the runway the crosswind component was within the Archers limits )

Aye, 200ft wide now, but originally it was 770ft (as measured on google earth) as I assume Woodbridge and Carnaby were too. All seemed a little too much for my first solo in a C152!