P3 Orion at Brunswick Naval Air Station

So great to see a P-3 Orion on the ramp in Brunswick, Maine. This is the former Brunswick Naval Air Station, and P-3s were the resident squadrons back in the glory days of the cold war. The long probe out the tail is a magnetometer, this airplane could detect the presence of a submarine under twater by detecting the perturbation of the Earth's magnetic field. Living right under the approach path to Brunswick Naval Air Station, I used to watch these amazing airplanes fly by our place on the cove as they were coming back from their sub-hunter missions.