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FSX Scenery--RAF Manston 1944, UK. RAF Manston (ICAO EGMH) was an RAF station in the northeast of Kent, on the Isle of Thanet from 1916 until 1996. The site is now split between a commercial airport Kent International Airport (KIA) and a continuing military use by the Defence Fire Training and Development Centre (DFTDC), following on from a long-standing training facility for RAF firefighters at the Manston base. In this scenery the station is represented as it was in 1944 leading up to its part in Operation Market garden and D Day. It was one of the few airfields installed with the Fog Investigation Dispersal Organisation (FIDO) system designed to remove fog from airfields by burning it off with petrol and this is represented by the eight fuel tanks at the 29 end of the main runway. The station is laid out roughly according to an old map made in the mid 40s but no claims to the accuracy of the buildings used. By Terry Boissel.