On a strip of land where young British and Canadian airmen once took off on hazardous wartime missions over the North Sea, a host of similarly young people are learning how to operate rather different types of machinery.
One of them is at the controls of a 360-degree excavator, its massive digging apparatus creating a trench in the earth. Another young man rumbles past in a grader, a machine that, to the unskilled eye, looks like something from the Alien films.
"That lad's doing great," notes one of the training staff. "He's only been on the course a few weeks and there's a massive demand for grader drivers at the moment."
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