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Originally Posted by Waco1148
Interested in karma girl's info about author Ben Ames Williams on Beaver Island. He took flying lessons at the Weirs with Bob Fogg, as did his son, Chuck Williams. There's an article from the Laconia Citizen about him coming to Beaver Island in a Sikorsky S-38, a big twin-engine amphibian airplane that carried up to 10 passengers and could land on land or water. I'd love to know more about where he stayed on Beaver, when he was there, and what writing he did while there.
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There's a huge website of
WWII-era aircraft, which has taken all afternoon to visit. One photo stuck out, showing the Travel Air SA6000 floatplane that's been featured in 1930's videos of Lake Winnipesaukee.
I don't believe I've seen a
Sikorsky S-38 at the Weirs before. A greatly-enlarged photo appears below. Both the Travel Air SA6000 and a new-to-me Waco floatplane photo appear below that one.
A website of the Weirs seaplane base appears
here. It's a one-page site, but rich in Weirs postcards of that seaplane era. One SA 6000 postcard has been "colorized", but from all appearances, the colorization was done from memory.
