RAF Manston
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: 10 miles finals
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Back to Manston. My log book tells me that we used to clear customs/refuel at Manston when bringing a Canberra back from Akrotiri to UK in 1964/5/6.
In February 1966 we got a grade 1 diversion from Manston to Lossiemouth due to fog/snow etc. So fido wasn't working then, if it had it probably would have frightened me silly.
Looking back of the 3 crew no one knew anything about Lossie or even where it was ,apart from, Scotland so we tried these new radar thingies and were picked up by Southern radar and handed over all the way to PAR at Lossie. Wonderful. We didn't even have any charts north of Leeming either!!
In February 1966 we got a grade 1 diversion from Manston to Lossiemouth due to fog/snow etc. So fido wasn't working then, if it had it probably would have frightened me silly.
Looking back of the 3 crew no one knew anything about Lossie or even where it was ,apart from, Scotland so we tried these new radar thingies and were picked up by Southern radar and handed over all the way to PAR at Lossie. Wonderful. We didn't even have any charts north of Leeming either!!
