Wolfeboro's Little Airport & Ralph M. Horn

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"...Where the Civil Air Patrol has gone is anybody's guess..."

Originally Posted by DUSTOFF

They have a Cessna based out of Concord

Thanks for that.

A little CAP factoid:

"A German commander later confirmed that coastal U-boat operations
were withdrawn from the United States "because of those damned
little red and yellow airplanes."

By the end of the war, 64 Civil Air Patrol members had lost their lives in the line of duty".

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...suggest you check out this 'old NH airport' website ......'This site' ....... It shows among other old NH air strips.....the old seaplane & small plane air strip ... Lakes Region Airport .... way down Wolfeboro Neck, and the old White Mountain Airport in North Conway that is now a shopping mall....believe what used to be the airplane hanger and airport office has been totally reconstructed and modified ..... now home to a large Old Navy retail store .... with a very expensive looking biplane weather vane atop the retail roof.....plus Route 16 in N Conway was a very different road in the old photo ... and, this is progress .....yikes!

When I turn right onto the old White Mountain Airport property, I promptly get lost!

Last I heard, a condominium built on the former airport property has fallen into disrepair.



More information on the hanger's copper weathervane formerly located on the Orvis store [airport hanger], and the "2013-news" is, that store is (was) vacant. here. That weathervane isn't intended to be a good replica of the Waco biplanes maintained at White Mountain Airport.

If you'd bought tickets to fly The Red Baron at the White Mountain Airport, you'd have bought them from the wife of the Red Baron pilot—who was my Dad. White Mountain Airport had a Blue Waco, too, but don't know if it had a name. Two of the "tourists" flying together over Mt. Washington included John McEnroe and Ilie (Nasty) Nastase.


Every pilot loves to fly, and my Dad had it in spades. He "commuted" with his Cessna 180 from Wolfeboro Air Park to White Mountain Airport so he could fly some more!

Also below, a portion of a 1984 Granite State News article by local, Jean Batchelder. I haven't seen anything of late by Jean Batchelder, and don't know what a VASI system is, but pretty sure it's gone.

Hard to believe that a serviceable dock was replaced in 1984, then replaced again in 1995, then replaced again in 2014 (with three docks), then two docks replaced again last year. I've picked the wrong career!

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My family had moved adjacent to the Wolfeboro Airpark 12 years before the below flyover took place. Judging by the below video, no military jet flyover at that altitude has occurred since.

This 1967 flyover occurred above Camp Wyanoke on the shore of Winter Harbor—adjacent to Carry Beach. While I'd heard of this flyover "over the Internet", I've just received an email with more detailing:

"That Jet was a USAF F-4 Phantom, the Pilot was a former Wyanoke camper that broke every Civil Air & USAF Rule of Flight to WOW the folks on the ground at [Camp] Wyanoke. He did just that doing well over 500 knots below 500 feet causing the waters to part with his thrust and ear piercing roar of his Twin J-79 Supersonic Powered Engines. I think it scared everyone in boats, canoes and kayaks to do their own rollovers into the waters of Wolfeboro Neck for cover. It was by Far the Most Incredible Stunt ever pulled off at Wyanoke

"With knowledge aforethought" filmed over Camp Wyanoke—perhaps on Super-8 movie film—the accompanying YouTube video appears here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfju...ature=youtu.be
The actual flyover begins upon the accompanying song's lyrics, "...when this war is over...". Less than a mile away, the Horns' telephone was ringing off the hook at the Airpark.

However, the video shows a jet with a single exhaust, intake, and engine—and appears to be a F8U Crusader. This puts the above quote into the category of "Mists of Memory and Time". "Writer's License"? To be fair, they are both U.S. Navy jets.

A video comparing the two fighters in a "friendly dogfight":
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x47vsla

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So, what's that song ....... sounds like the Kingston Trio ..... is like the last verse from 'Head'n for the Hills' sung by the Limelighters in about 1963 ... google knows everything.