AN Immingham Air Cadet experienced the trip of a lifetime to a remote RAF base in the middle of the Atlantic.Cadet Sergeant Jessica Whittaker was among the first party of cadets ever allowed to visit Ascension Island.The volcanic island sits in the South Atlantic, some 1,000 miles off the coast of Africa and 1,400 off South America.It houses RAF and USAF bases along with the European Space Agency rocket tracking station.The RAF station was the midway staging post for UK forces during the...
Reported by Grimsby Telegraph 2 hours ago.
AN Immingham Air Cadet experienced the trip of a lifetime to a remote RAF base in the middle of the Atlantic.Cadet Sergeant Jessica Whittaker was among the first party of cadets ever allowed to visit Ascension Island.The volcanic island sits in the South Atlantic, some 1,000 miles off the coast of Africa and 1,400 off South America.It houses RAF and USAF bases along with the European Space Agency rocket tracking station.The RAF station was the midway staging post for UK forces during the...
Reported by Grimsby Telegraph 2 hours ago.