It is ironic that just a few miles away at Bassingbourn, Air Cadets were marshalling aircraft, booking them in and going for air experience flights in visiting aircraft and microlights over the bank holiday weekend.
The museum in the old control tower was open for visiting pilots and a soldier was on duty to open the gates (Bassingbourn is the basic training base for the Queen's Division).
Isn't it ridiculous that it is permissable to fly in to an active army base and have cadets in close proximity when taxying, while a field in the middle of Cambridgeshire is deemed to be too dangerous!
At least there were people who took the time and trouble to enable the Nuthampstead fly-in to proceed. Let's hope sanity reigns next year and the cadets can come back.
RD