The flight into Bangor Maine is flight number 65 in Around the World in 80 Flights. Flight 65 begins in New York's La Guardia, flies over Boston, and finally arrives in Bangor. Needless to say, I started in Linden, New Jersey instead of La Guardia. I also made stops in Block Island, Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, Boston, Portland Main, the Heron's Nest before arriving in Bangor.
The city proper has a population of 33,039, while the metropolitan Bangor metropolitan area has a population of 153,746. Modern Bangor was established in the mid-1800s with the lumber and shipbuilding industries. Lying on the Penobscot River, logs could be floated downstream from the Maine North Woods and processed at the city's water-powered sawmills, then shipped from Bangor's port to the Atlantic ocean 30 miles downstream, and from there to any port in the world.
Bangor International Airport (IATA: BGR, ICAO: KBGR) is a joint civil-military public airport on the west side of the city. It has a single runway measuring 11,439 by 200 ft (3,487 by 61 m). Bangor is the last (or first) American airport along the great circle route route between the U.S. East Coast and Europe, and in the 1970s and '80s it was a refuelling stop, until the development of longer-range jets in the 1990s.
Bangor is almost an obligatory stop for GA aircraft making a northern trans-Atlantic crossing. My flight from Portland was uneventful.
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