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Post by pat perry on Aug 31, 2015 8:55:12 GMT 9
Via Bobski - Pat P.
All Troops, Jim Sidebottom has passed along an interesting video about Loring AFB from it's inception and demise. Thanks Jim! Bobski
From: sidebottomj@hotmail.com To: bobski9933@aol.com Sent: 8/27/2015 8:45:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time Subj: Loring Video Some of your former Loring troops might enjoy this. I also just sent it to M. Ross Shulmister, who was kind enough to email me some of his Loring stories.
Interesting for those who were there………………….. You may enjoy this video
www.facebook.com/video.php?v=202283737708
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Post by adart on Sept 6, 2015 8:39:27 GMT 9
Thanks for the video. Most of these bases have turned into some other form of business. Really sad...
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Post by pat perry on Feb 11, 2016 1:57:47 GMT 9
Tom Baker has provided a Loring AFB Video that he shot with a Super 8 camera back in 1969. Thanks Tom for preserving the history of the F-106! It's amazing that the 47 year old Super 8 film held up for so long before being digitized. I really liked the taxi out of the 16 F-106s and the four 4-ship formation fly over they performed. There is also a Thunderbirds F-4 show that was held on AF Day.
MOW has added the 23:11 video to his YouTube account here:
and also on the F-106 website video page here: www.f-106deltadart.com/videoclips.htm
The YouTube link also contains Tom's description of what's on the video: "Published on Feb 9, 2016 A group of video shots of F-106's of the 27th Fighter Interceptor Squadron at Loring AFB, Maine in 1969 by Tom Baker.
The first part of the disk is F-106A 59-0036 & F-106B 57-2514 in flight in summer 1969. The in-flight shots were taken by Tom Baker when he got a cross-country flight from Loring to McChord AFB, WA in August 1969. The mountain shots are of Mt. Rainier in Washington state. The 16-ship fly by was at Loring after an ORI. Col. James Thomas, Squadron Commander, was the lead. There is a shot of him taxing by with his gold helmet. The last pilot in the flight was Mark Foxwell who broke formation on the last pass because they were so low over the alert barns.
The other shot are of Col. Compton in a solo flyby during AF Day. The pilot walking across the ramp to fly, I believe is Tom Gerken. The black Mustang on the ramp belonged to Lt. Col. Peck Burkhart who was the Chief of Maintenance, great guy. He was also a pilot who had flown several types of aircraft through the his career.
Pat P.
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Post by Tom Dlugosh on Feb 11, 2016 6:35:26 GMT 9
Brings back memories, some fond, some not.
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