Newton was one of several airfields built during the late 1930s as part of the UK government RAF expansion programme ... hands of occasional vandals. The abandoned houses on the base were used ...
The airfield had opened as RAF Manston in 1916 and during WWII its runway was expanded to three lanes to cope with emergencies, making it one of the widest in Europe. The first enemy planes swept ...
Eggs from endangered birds' nests near RAF air bases that would normally be destroyed have been saved in a pilot conservation project. The curlew eggs, rescued from six MoD airfields in East ...
May 1942 marked the first time that an RAF aircraft crashed at the airfield, with another RAF ... Photographs taken by urban explorers show abandoned buildings at the former air base which have ...