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Farnsworth and Ralph Phillips were on board. The Travel Air and the
original, historic Waco, along with other aircraft, were destroyed in a han- gar fire in Concord in the spring of 1932. Fogg
quickly replaced them with other airplanes he purchased or leased, and the air service continued each summer until 1938. Thomas E.P. Rice, Sr., a World War I aviator often described as a “wealthy Boston sportsman,” came
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View of Weirs seaplane base in the mid-1930s. Thomas E.P. Rice, a World War I pilot and sportsman aviator of the 1930s, invested in Fogg’s seaplane business between 1934 and 1938.
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to the Lake in the early ‘30s, building a house in Meredith and a camp on Stonedam Island. He invested in Fogg’s flying service and was presi- dent of Winnipesaukee Air Service from 1936 to 1938, bringing a former Pan Am Sikorsky S-38 flying boat to the Weirs in 1937, a twin-engine eight-passenger airplane with a boat-like hull that could land on water, or extend it’s landing gear for an airport landing. A Beech “Staggerwing,” (so called because unlike most biplanes, the lower wing was further forward on the fuselage than the upper) was also part of the air service, flown from Alton Bay by Jack Mc- Manus. Rice and Fogg, along
with Floyd Miller, Andy Cannon, and other local personnel, took the Sikor- sky, the Waco, and the speedy Beech Staggerwing on pontoons to Miami for the winter of 1937, where they were based at Miami Beach and flew passengers to Havana, the Bahamas, and the Keys, including support for a movie, “Slave Ship,” starring Warner Baxter and Wallace Beery. When it played at the Colonial Theater in Laconia, the air See AVIATION on 42
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