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mcdude Senior Member Registered: July 2002 Location: Rock Haven Lake - West Newfield, ME Posts: 5,367	Bob Fogg started the first airmail service on the lake and was the first aerial photographer. See related scans below. http://www.winnipesaukee.com/photopo...014&page=2 and http://www.winnipesaukee.com/photopo...php?photo=4038 From the Laconia Citizen http://www4.citizen.com/February_200...ia_022605d.asp
	· Date: Fri October 29, 2004 · Views: 7464 · Filesize: 32.0kb, 383.9kb · Dimensions: 951 x 620 ·
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Rattlesnake Gal

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Registered: November 2003
Location: Central NH
Posts: 5,252

Mon November 1, 2004 2:14pm

"Safe and Sane" Flying. Guess there must have been some real dare devils back then if they felt the need to advertize the "Sane" part. LOL. Nice post McD.

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ApS

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Registered: January 2005
Location: Florida (Sebring & Keys), Wolfeboro
Posts: 5,938

Tue June 29, 2010 11:35am

My Dad tells me he talked his way into a ride around the lake on this "flying boat" in 1929. (Sitting on a provided wooden crate.) Later, his mother brought a ticket for a ride—unaware he'd already been up!

He tells me—offhand, from memory—that it was a 4-seater, powered by a 180-HP Hispano-Suiza V-8 watercooled engine, that had to be started by hand! To start the engine, the crank was inserted in the side of the engine, then you used your full weight—while kinda falling off the wing. (!)

Bob Fogg was from Massachusetts, and a Board Member of the "Quiet Birdmen". (A "semi-secret" organization of earliest U.S. pilots).

Members included my Dad and Charles Lindbergh!

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