Not a pilot, but canoed right by that site some years ago, never knew it was there. I've got a pretty interesting story of that trip though I don't think I'll type it out here. :)
Records show that Caribou AFS is the weapons storage area they are standing in. It had its own barracks mess hall and when the 42nd BW took over the area Caribou was absorbed into Loring AFB and became known as the weapon storage area.
Great video, I drove out there, it was cool to find after 100 miles of dirt roads. Here is the registration form online northmainewoods.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Online-Self-Reg-2024.pdf
@@chrissaucier121 the 4chan can destroy Shia LaBeouf's hidden flag I think someone can use Google Earth to locate those locomotives if there's enough money involved I don't know how good those are conditioned wise cuz of the ground what that entails how preserved they are but regardless more eyes on it means more potential avarice, yes?
I was an SP there in 80-81, I was only there one year because being an ex-Navy Engineman I was told my time counted for going remote. So I went to Clear AFS the next year. I remember the WSA well. Loring was my first AFB. We called the A building the Vamp House.....
Seeing some of these WW2 engines apart or cutaways shows just how amazing and complex some of them were. All built amd designed in the 1940s or before by jand, no computers. The airplane museum in Sacramento has some awesome cutaway and disassembled engines in display. The ones with rotating vavles while having 12 cylinders or more and being radial (pratt and Whitney i believe it was) are mind boggling
I find the memorial, with the scrolling honour list particularly moving and extremely well placed on the arc walk. Oh and I just love the Jug strug from the rafters :D
I'm a member of the museum. I think people are always astonished at what the place holds, not just in the American Air Museum section. The fuselage of Rudolph Hess's Me 110, the mini-submarine in which the son of the Graf Spee's captain died, a section of the Tirpitz's armour and so on. The Concorde is the crowd puller of course, but my personal favourite in the B-29 in the AAM, as shown.
I served at Korat airbase Thailand with a great guy from Michigan who spent some time at Loring. There were some great stories to go along with both bases. So Tim Mead, thanks for the memories my brother.
My dad served at Loring AFB from 1974 to 1977 and it was his first assignment after completing basic training. He spent those years guiding planes out at the hangers and he mentioned to me a couple of times that the Maine winters at those times were so harsh that he nearly froze his feet off.
I served with a guy that used to have to guard planes in Alaska. He told me how hard it would snow and he could barely make out the plane while he was within feet of it. He did his duty, but commented on how he couldn’t see the sense in guarding a plane that he was the only one that could barely see it. Of course, nobody could fly the plane in those conditions and even if someone wanted to get to the plane, they most likely would die on their way to the aircraft. Servicemen do things that the public has no idea is even going on. I talked to some Navy people that told me some things the went on in the East China Sea. Myself, I was deployed and I sat in the middle of the desert wondering if anyone back home even gave a rats ass about any one of us. I got my answer when I returned. No. Other service members do, but the general public could care less. I am retired and the VA has turned into a damned joke.
I made the mistake of not using a protective rubber mat on the wing of the BE18 when fueling it up in Portland back in 1992. The owner jumped my case for that. Even before that time and after that time, I always handled that airplane with kid gloves when it came to Portland for gas or whatever. She's just as beautiful now as she was 32 years ago.
Wow. Fascinating stuff. I was a ramp rat at Loring from Jan 70 to Jun 70. I spent a lot of time on hardstand 7! Later became the only E-3 in law enforcement. Stood gate duty with an M-16. If you ever want to hear a funny as shit story about the Blottner Site, I have one. It involves a guy named Larry Case. (Rest his soul.)
I'm interested to join but I saw this on Reddit: I've never had more close calls to a mid air than I do consistently with the CAP. You will be in the mode C veil, flying straight and level, and they will consistently change altitude and heading directly on a collision course with your track. Maybe they're training to be kamikaze pilots though I wouldn't know.
