Thanks for posting.

Looks promising. This is obviously going to take some time and my concern is that the runway will be grubbed up and other infrastructure buildings demolished. Is there anyway of putting a temporary restraining order on to prevent this?

Well done great news, thank you Sil-Mid Ltd.

I see that Angie Sutton had a 33 year career in the RAF and now runs an events company http://www.asenterprises.co.uk/ which organised the airshow at Manston in 2013. I note her RAF rank has been removed from the witness list since I looked at it earlier in the day.
Now we have leaked emails, murkier and murkier.

Not seen Borgen is it any good

Thanks for posting.
Am I right in saying first group are going to be justifying what has happened and are all involved with Mrs Gloag and financially involved.

The second group are all councils with an MP. Presumably none experts in aviation. Do we know which way they will jump? Either way they have a financial interest.

Third group appear to be campaign groups.

http://www.savemanstonairport.org.uk/wordpress/
http://www.whynotmanston.org/

Dr Beau Webber is a research scientist at Canterbury Uni. He has a large web presence but does not seem to mention his involvement with Manston.

Not represented but there is also

http://www.supportmanstonairport.org/

What I do not see is any independent aviation experts.

I am really surprised that the Mrs G has not had the runway grubbed up as this is what a lot of developers do now move in and demolish everything so there is no going back. This is what happended in Sealand where the Developer agreed with local historians that they could record the WW1 buildings but then immediately pulled them down. At the time they had no planning permission I think this was back in 2010 or 11. Needless to say the project is called The Airfields.:mad:

To avoid any doubt I strongly think that Manston should be kept open and go further than that in that all airfields should be ring fenced and no housing development allowed.

Paul

I struggle with Twitter and personal Tweets can be total drivel. However, it does have it’s uses I joined at the Kemble airshow a few years ago and found it very useful, have since used it at other airshows. Other useful Tweeters are such bodies as the police and various groups you might be interested in typically XH558. It is a good way to get latest information. At the time of the riots in London I was able to find information of what was going on in Bromley as it had been reported that shop windows had been broken but in fact locals were able to say this wasn’t true and one even posted a pic of one of the shops named. Reassuring when you are several hundred miles away and have relatives in the area.

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That was close David, we nearly met!

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aeronut 2008 says it all. Very painful. More like a children’s comic. Very unbecoming of the BBC and in my view a very bad decision to broadcast (although this is not its début) I expect much better and our service men certainly deserved much, much better.

Great find many thanks.