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THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, September 30, 2010
View of Weirs seaplane ramp with Sikorsky S-38 twin-engine flying boat. Miami seaplane service logo on tail boom advertises their winter base of operations in 1937. Parts of three other aircraft are partly visible on the ramp to the right of the Sikorsky. Addition of the 12-passenger sub-clipper was big news in the days when Pan American Airlines clippers were spanning the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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portunity to take in the aerial views of the lake and mountains. In the summer of 1925,
Fogg won a contract from the post office to deliver mail around the lake, us- ing his flying boat, ten landings and takeoffs and a total distance of 50 miles for $35.00 per day. Due to the contract, he was able to pay for his gas and mechanic’s wages before 8 a.m. each day, and the contract was fulfilled 100
percent. From August 1 to September 8, ten sacks of mail were picked up from the 5:55 a.m. Boston train and deliv- ered so promptly that the outgoing mail he picked up was on the 8:05 train back to Boston. Stops were at Wolfeboro, Camp Wyanoke and Camp Os- sipee on Wolfeboro Neck, Philip Smith’s landing on Tuftonboro Neck, Camp Belknap on 19-Mile Bay and Camp Wawbeek just below Melvin Vi l lage,
Camp Winaukee at the tip of Moultonboro Neck, Long Island (in the “back bay” area on the east side below the Long Island Inn), Sandy Island YMCA camp, Camp Idlewild on Cow Island, and back to the Weirs. Fogg continued to fly
passengers, as well as giving flying lessons, sell- ing the Curtiss Seagull and adding a 6-passen- ger Travel Air 6000 in 1929 and a Waco CSO See AVIATION on 31
Bob Fogg’s first airmail flights on Winnipesaukee were commemorated during National Air Mail Week, May 15-21, 1938, with a special postal cachet showing the route of his deliveries on the “first aero-marine mail service in America.” The above envelope was addressed to the author’s father, Lyman Rice, by his father, Thomas E.P. Rice, president of the Winnipesaukee Air Service, Inc.
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Harry Atwood and lady passenger, July 26, 1912, after a 40 minute flight over the lake. Courtesy Edwin Jay Roberts Collection, UNH. From contemporary news accounts, it is thought that the “lady passenger” is either Atwood’s mother, Florence, or his girl friend, Ruth Satterthwaite. The plane is a Wright Model B, modified as a floatplane. The craft was powered by two pusher propellers mounted on the rear of the wing struts and connected to the engine by chain drive, and the two passengers were seated on the forward edge of the lower wing.
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