I spent several years of my youth as a member of an Air Cadet Gliding school there and knew the place pretty well. Subsidence from coal mining contributed to its demise as the USAF airhead in the UK, a role which Mildenhall took on. I may even have been on the crew of the last military aircraft to land there before developers took over, but that is a story in itself.
Sadly I cannot be around to update another airfield, and therefore hand it over as an: OPEN HOUSE