Bangor International Airport

[Wing_Z]

Does this airport have the best emergency response team in the world?
I bet they have a few tales to tell, it's the first US landfall for westbound transatlantic flights.
Today, they received a US Airways B767 accompanied by an escort of two F-15s
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/6969313/F-15s-escort-plane-after-security-scare

 

[Cag40Navy]

Well, it pretty much has to. Considering how important Bangor is to Atalantic Travel

 

[Rami]

Reply...

Good evening,

Bangor International was formerly shared with a former Air Force Reserve base, it is on the "Great Circle Route" from Europe, being the first suitable airfield accessible in the Northeastern U.S., and it has a runway of over 11,500 feet. That makes it ideally suited for emergency situations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangor_International_Airport

 

[cheezyflier]

you could land some pretty serious stuff on a runway that long.

for example, that's 293 cubs if my math is right

 

[Brian_Gladden]

you could land some pretty serious stuff on a runway that long.

for example, that's 293 cubs if my math is right

Try walking around the airport perimeter sometime. Did that back in 03 at the airshow. Loooong walk from the only parking place I could find to the air guard base entrance. Bangor is still home to the Maine Air National Guard's KC-135's.

 

[cheezyflier]

the langoliers?