October 9-10, 2026 - Maine Foliage Flight
Millenocket to Coast
Walking from the motel back to the airport Saturday morning.  Flying conditions look excellent.  It's a little cool but not what I would call cold.
   
Getting the RV ready for a big flying day.  The airport was deserted this early.  By coincidence, they would be having their annual fly-in today, but it doesn't start until 10am.  I'd like to stick around for it, but I'm a long way from home, and I won't have the time.  I'd stay here another night for it, but I can't because Maryland will have very bad weather tomorrow.  I have to make it back today.
   
And I'm up.  This morning's task is some serious foliage flying.  It's all about the color!
   
I wouldn't call the air smooth this morning -- there is some light chop -- but it's better than yesterday.
 
Katahdin Mountain dead ahead.
   
 
   
 
   
The sun is really lighting the foliage up this morning.
   
A couple of float planes are moored on that lake down below.  Central Maine is awesome seaplane country.
   
 
   
 
   
I'm just flying around aimlessly looking for any beautiful sight.  Which are abundent.
   
 
   
There is some wind this morning as evidenced by the streaks on the lake.
   
 
   
 
   
 
   
Nice.
   
 
   
Interstate 95 heads north and south just to the east of Millinocket.
   
 
   
 
   
I have been working my way southeast towards the Atlantic Coast.
 
Here I pass by Lincoln Regional Airport (KLRG).  This airport might be a possible foliage flight base of operations.  It's about a mile walk from the FBO to a motel in town.  Itw's also very close to the Penobscot River.  You could also camp at the airport although that doesn't appeal to me much these days.
   
Continuing southeast.
   
Passing by some windmills.  Which were turning.  .
   
 
   
I came to this huge red-colored field.  I've never seen anything like it.
   
I wonder what gives the ground that red color?
   
 
   
Wow, just wow.
   
 
   
I had been kind of aiming for this airport, Machias Valley (KMVM), which is close to the Atlantic coast.
   

Ahead was something I remember from my 2022 Maine foliage flight.  It's a huge complex of towers, 26 of them, arranged in two stars, all connected with wires.  A man-made spider web ready to snare any airplane pilot not paying attention.

The Cutler Naval Radio Station is a highly specialized U.S. Navy communications facility in Cutler, Maine, famous for its enormous radio towers and its role in communicating with submarines at sea—even when they're submerged.  The Navy still operates it. It isn't simply an abandoned Cold War base. Its very-low-frequency (VLF) transmitter is part of the Navy's communications link to U.S. and NATO ships and submarines.  The enormous antenna system is necessary because VLF wavelengths are so long. Cutler's coastal location also helps make the site suitable for this kind of transmission.
   
 
   
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