Air Speed Record set at Reculver, 7th November 1945
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...
Category: Aircraft
An unexpected passenger in a Handley Page O/100 on 4th November 1916
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...
Prime Minister, Winston Churchill visits Manston on 28th August 1940
Manston’s importance was recognised when the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, paid it a personal visit. He saw an airfield barely serviceable, still with craters everywhere and markers denoting unexploded bombs...
Heavy Luftwaffe raids on Manston and Ramsgate on 24th August 1940 leaving the airfield unserviceable
Six heavy attacks, the first at 0600 hrs (TBC) when approximately 80 aircraft crossed the coast to Thanet, left Manston unserviceable after the heavy raid at 1520 hrs, despite its...
Gotha raid of 22nd August 1917 – Part of the first “Battle of Britain”
Please note that this post is very much still in development. If you have any additions or corrections, please let us know. During the First World War, the earlier raids...
The second large attack on Manston during the Battle of Britain, 14th August 1940
At 1140hrs, a large formation of enemy aircraft was detected forming up over Calais by Dover and Pevensey radar. Four squadrons were brought to readiness, including seven Spitfires of No.65...
