Ascension Island - UK, US joint military base .. Island, Airport, Cafe, Duty Free

[@martinconnelly1473]

Most of the dishes are not radar, it is a NASA tracking and relay station. The airstrip is very long as it was an emergency landing strip for the Space Shuttle when it was in use, it was extended for that purpose. The wind is what makes it bearable most of the time. If you go up to the island's peak the temperature drops markedly, that is why some accommodation is on the slopes of the mountain, Two Boats for example. The airstrip is near the edge of the island, not in the middle.

[@sabrinawilliams5175]

Wonderful video, thanks for sharing.

[@stanleybuchan4610]

One or two errors there mate. The flightpath is all over sea between UK and Ascension. It's an 8.5 hr flight not 11. No surveillance radar here. The workforce is mostly civilians. It's 7.5 hrs to the Falklands which is about 1000 miles from the Antarctic Peninsula. Greetings from Ascension.

[@martinconnelly1473]

I went by C130 Hercules both times, there and back. It was 15 hours each flight but we did have a refuelling stop in Dakar. There was a flight from the UK to the Falklands by C130 that went from the UK to Ascension via Dakar then on to the Falklands with air to air refuelling. When they reached the Falklands they had to turn round and return to Ascension due to the poor weather preventing a safe landing. That took a lot longer than your 11 hours and 7.5 hours.

[@timfronimos459]

what is the 'sailing' time for modern vessel from UK to Ascension and then on to Falkands.

[@Sterlingjob]

It’s only 10000 ft long, Heathrow is over 12000 ft long

[@timfeast6609]

And Stan has more time off than the NAAFI cat!

[@ObviousTroll69-i6k]

Where are the Avro Vulcans and Handley Page Victors?

[@bobduvar]

6:32 in the middle of nowhere you find "the goose"... a french vodka !! are you serious .... LOL...

[@itsnotmehonest]

I was there in the summer of 83 in concertina city we only had the "Volcano club" for entertainment...

[@stephenmiller5004]

I was there in 1976….called HMS Ascension an arm of the Royal Marines….Diesel fuel being expensive providing power to make water, the cheapest thing to wash your windows …was London gin bought from the NAAFI…less than 1 pound sterling for 75cl……Anything in tins was expensive like tonic or Coca Cola but alcohol in gin or Scotch was dirt cheap

[@Daniel-S1]

Thanks very much for posting this. Ascension Island has a rich history. Hope to get back one day.

[@marknewton6984]

My dad landed his P-40 there in WW2 on his way to Africa. Wounded at Messina.

[@filevans]

@@marknewton6984 on the way to africa from where? as it isn't on the way to africa, it's going past it heading down to antartica direction

[@marknewton6984]

@@filevans From Brazil

[@filevans]

@@marknewton6984 say that in your message then as doesn't make sense otherwise

[@wayinfront1]

It's 'desert', not 'dessert' (sic). Dessert is what you eat after the main course of your meal. And no, it's not only British and American military personnel who live on the island. There's also a small community of civilians, drawn mainly from British Dependencies like Saint Helena.

[@johnburns6422]

Very interesting , thank you

[@belfastbrit]

If you take a video on the way back, try and keep your camera still . Hose piping the camera spoils what you you are trying to show. The answer?, let the scene do the work majority of the time. Keep it still and try and make each scene last a little more than 6 seconds. Look forward to your return trip. Cheers.

[@sammedic]

Very well said .. one of my first video. I noted this myself. Learning and trying to correct. Thanks

[@martyham10]

I was on Ascension in 1964. None of this was there then. I worked aboard the U.S.N.S. American Mariner. No deep water port. Had to go ashore in a small tender...

[@johnjardine1595]

What a difference to the facilities compared to when I staged through there - southbound October 1984, northbound March 1985.

[@MarkusGeheim]

With shortened or cutted out airport-waiting footage, it could had been better, but ok. it was just a stopover. Btw. 12 Pounds for a Smirnoff bottle is not exactly the cheapest duty-free shop. I can get it even cheaper in German supermarkets with TAX on top and everything. Same for the other spirits shown here.

[@jimkeogh8552]

Looks like a great place to stage simulations for the exploration of Mars.

[@Revelian1982]

NASA practiced using the moon buggy on Ascension.

[@pdd60absorbed12]

any skyscrapers or a train depot?

[@val91201]

In Las Vegas, NV a bottle of Belvedere vodka 1,75 liters is about $47 - 37 pounds, so one doesn't have to fly to Ascension Island for a deal

[@jbcvabeach82]

I looking for more informative more professional video on this place. Could you please refer to me if you know?

[@robertoluis1948]

There not radars but radiotelescopes

[@atschirner]

At 1:50 that's a VOR for aviation navigation.

[@slychainey3279]

Was this filmed in 2023? Has been closed to Voyagers / long haul due to major airstrip resurfacing.

[@timfeast6609]

Voyager came back around Apr/May 23

[@colindasilva2442]

Most of your facts are wrong

[@filevans]

you had to fly to the antarctic peninsula to get to the Falklands?

[@colingoldthorpe5918]

@@filevansif you were stationed in the Falkland Islands you landed here 1st they refuelled and then set of to Mount Pleasant air base on the Falkland Islands. Did this in 1989 when I was 19 years old in the UK military….

[@filevans]

@@colingoldthorpe5918 in the video he said he had to fly to the Antarctic peninsula first before going to the Falklands, that's what I was asking him about

[@Mrtapp5357]

A perfect place to exile a convicted ex president

[@sammedic]

lol

[@stanleybuchan4610]

No thanks, he'd only cause trouble.😂

[@allanjensen1195]

LOL if that's a Napoleon reference, then you're thinking of St Helena, further to the south and even more isolated than Asencion. If that's a reference to anyone - AHEM - more current, then I heartily agree.

[@davidrenton]

not sure Biden would like the climate