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]

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 :icon_lol:

[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 :icon_lol:

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?