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ing weather early in the week he consented to re- main through the follow- ing weekend. The “nervy bird-man in his air-boat” made various flights over Meredith, Squam Lake, and Winnipesaukee, be- fore alighting back at the Weirs, “as cleverly as a duck would alight on a pond.” His plane was dis- played on the lawn of the Hotel Weirs when not in flight, and special trains and excursion steamers were engaged to bring in the spectators. The spec- tacle was witnessed by up to 7,000 visitors on the final Sunday, when he made four flights. His visit was not without inci-
THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, September 30, 2010
Pilots and staff of Winnipesaukee Air Service, Inc., about 1936. Robert S. Fogg, Mike Harlow, Bunny Leslie, Andy Cannon, Jack McManus, Thomas E.P. Rice, John Newhall. AUTHOR’S COLLECTION
the southwest after the war, came back to Con- cord and bought a war- surplus Curtiss “Jenny” in 1920, said to be the first airplane owned by a New Hampshire resident. He was involved in the start-up of the Concord Airport, hopping passen- gers in the Jenny and a Standard known as the “Bearcat,” aided by me- chanic Caleb Marston. In 1923 Fogg purchased a surplus Navy seaplane, a Curtiss MF, or modi- fied model F, that was renamed the “Seagull” on the civilian market, for $750 without engine. It came up on railroad cars and Fogg and Marston as- sembled it in a workshop along the Weirs Channel,
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dent, including a rollover in his car somewhere on Parade Road, in which he and his girl friend, Ruth Satterthwaite of Read- ing, PA, were not injured, although Miss Satterth- waite declined any further airplane flights. She later ended up becoming At- wood’s first wife. No further information about flying at the Weirs has been discovered un- til the famous Bob Fogg came to town with his Curtiss flying boat in 1923. Fogg learned to fly in the Army at Kelly Field, Texas, during World War I, and following a short barnstorming career in
later using a half-sunk barge along the railroad embankment on the west side of Paugus Bay as a seaplane ramp. Weirs Times readers are
probably familiar with the image of Fogg in the Curtiss flying boat at the Weirs docks, with the old “Mount” in the back- ground. Fogg modified the plane from a two-place to a five-place for carrying sightseers, adding a more powerful 150 horsepow- er Hispano-Suiza engine and a smaller gas tank for short-duration local flights. Top speed was 69 mph, giving plenty of op- See AVIATION on 30
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