BackSeatPF,
I suggest you join the Kent yahoo group covering manston for the "heads-up".
On thursday you missed 2 * DC-8, 2 * VC10 and a An-12.
An-12s are the most common "Russian aircraft" now, the IL-76s only appear for aid flights.
The week before a Johnson's DC-8 arrived, a new operator for Manston !