What an amazing picture n the papers today of an A320 which has landed safely after flying into a serious hailstorm. The nose cone and windscreens are trashed and the pilot was unable to see out. But using on board instrumentation - and keeping a cool head - he managed to safely bring the aircraft a...

Thanks for the welcome messages. I'll keep an eye on Manston progress, and post if anything interesting happens.

Cheers all, John.

Hi folks. I am John. Live in Kent not far from Manston airport. LIke many in the area we are hoping to see Manston rise again from the ashes to offer passenger flights around Europe as it once did. There sometimes seems to be slow progress being made in that direction ..... but oh, so slow !