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What is beyond doubt is that the rotorcraft industry is having a tough time at present: tightened military spending, mature parapublic markets in the west, and a slumping oil and gas segment 鈥?including one of the sectors big two applying for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection 鈥?have combined to dent confidence and sales. And to add an extra problem, one of the offshore transport industrys mainstay helicopters is currently grounded following a crash in which 13 people were killed.However, what appears u
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Loring Air Force Base played a crucial part in Americas defense during the Cold War and beyond, but the work of the 42nd Bombardment Wing wasnt all inside the gates. Across Aroostook County, several installations defended the base against incoming harm, relayed communications, conducted simulated warfare, housed personnel and more. Some of those sites still exist; others are gone. One has crumbled into eerie rubble in an obscure clearing. But in their day,
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stanley cup r-Knowlton Post 9389, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Credit: Paula Brewer / The Star-HeraldCaribou, Connor, Caswell and Limestone housed U.S. Army Nike air defense missile sites to defend Loring. At first the Nikes were conventional weapons, but later the Nike Hercules was equipped to carry nuclear warheads, according to The Military Standard. Luckily, they never needed them. They never launched one, said Bob Tweedie of Westfield, U.S. Army veteran and a local author and historian. If they had, you can just imagine the devastation there would have been. Tweedie worked at the Connor site from March 1957 until September 1958 as a launcher control operator. The missiles could be set off from a control panel, launch area or the integrated fire control area, he said. A near-incident happened just a few weeks before he was
