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Old 9th Feb 2018, 18:50
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POBJOY
 
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I Think JM and his ilk are actually quite jealous of the hard facts that before all of this 'over control' of everything took hold the 'Schools' were sending hundreds of Cadets solo without any real issues. The fact is the expertise was at the coal face and the results stand the test of time and scrutiny. Frelon knows Kenley as well as I do, and also knows how the spirit of the location was an important part of the experience for the Cadets, and the benefit the Air Cadet organisation has/had from its existence. With the ongoing lack of locations and knowing the system will never be as it was, it is even more important for the surviving airfields like Kenley to be 'guarded' for future generations, AND THE BEST POSSIBLE AVIATION FACILITY PROVIDED FOR SAFE OPERATIONS. Flying must come first and everything else revolve around it. There is plenty of time & room at Kenley for the public to experience this unique time warp that still provides an aviation facility. There is no point in having a scheduled historic area if you do not think carefully about how you protect it without destroying more of its original surviving infrastructure.
A fence ON a peri-track is ridiculous and achieves nothing, it needs to be on the common where it belongs,and always was.
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