Loring Air Force Base doesn’t see much action these days.
The Maine airbase — named after Maj. Charles Loring, Medal of Honor winner — closed in 1994. But it was the site of a new world record Sunday, when a Floridan man rode his motorcycle faster than 311 mph.
Other speed records were set Sunday, including one man who drove a 1995 Nissan pickup at 179 mph.
So what’s it driving a motorcycle faster than the cruising speed of some jets?
“In this situation it was very calm,” Bill Warner told the Bangor Daily News. “I progressed my speeds up from 180 all the way up to that speed over the past few years, so it was not a traumatic thing to do.
The column on the right-hand side of the page under “Archives” is labeled “Categoreis.” Unfortunately, the plural of category is “categories.” Remember the whole “I before E except after C…” rule? Spell-check is a good guard against elementary errors.