A U.S. Air Force jet sits on display at Dow Field in Bangor, Maine, watched by a large crowd of onlookers gathered near the base's control tower and hangar. Captioned by its original photographer as an 'A-84 Jet Plane,' the aircraft reflects the rapid modernization of American air power in the years following World War II, as piston-engine fighters gave way to jets like the Republic F-84 and Lockheed T-33. Dow Field itself transitioned from a wartime airfield into a key Strategic Air Command installation during the early Cold War, and public events such as this one gave local communities a rare close-up look at the era's newest military aircraft. Project: 218165